Hello, I like to use a lot of linear dimensions when I’m reverse engineering a physical object. I end up typing into each one <>/5.00 so that the display shows current_value/expected_value (in this case 5 units). This ends up being very cluttered. I’d rather be able to have them turn green when matching and red when not (conditional formatting). Or simply autohide the ones that already match the expected value.
I don’t know of any tool in rhino that does that, but maybe working with formulas in texts could help you. When the “Text” command is run in rhino, in the menu that opens up, there’s an “fx” button that opens another menu which lets you input text fields which can be vinculated to the objects in your model so if those attributes change, the text is updated:
Using the “CurveLenght” text attribute you could set up a table with your goal dimensions vs the dimensions that there are in the model currently. I quickly prototyped an example to demonstrate:
This solution is pretty similar to your current workflow, but again, I can’t think of any better way to approach this. In any case, here are some refernce links to the documentation of the Text Fields:
Hope this helps,
-Dani
Thanks Dani, this is a close approach. One problem is that my linear dimensions often don’t follow a curve exactly so I’d need to table to show the length of the linear dimensions themselves.
Also, I noticed linear dimensions don’t update live while you’re resizing an object, only when you’ve committed the change. Is there a way to enable this?
Thank you!
Ben