(REQ) Work Plane Tools
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Looking for a drawing toolset that allows the user to set a temporary work plane prior to drawing. I was thinking in a similar way that the native rotate tool allows you to hold down the mouse button and spin the icon to any rotate plane and lock the rotation to that. Except this would be a drawing plane, which would create a temporary piece of drawing paper, if you will, and lock a line, arc, freehand,rectangle and circle tool to that plane and prevent it from inference other points in 3D space.
It's something I think most of us do manually now to draw profiles and paths in 3D space. Just wondering if it's possible to combine the functionality of the native rotate tool with drawing and possibly a move tool. Hope that's not too confusing.
(ThomThom, a move tool like this would be great for your vertex tools!)
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The problem is that you can't alter the behaviour of the native tools, so you'd need to rewrite a whole new set of tools. And any other Ruby tool would have to be altered to support working planes as well.
In other words, not a trivial task.
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You can do what you propose by changing the position of the global axes. If you have your "piece of paper" drawn, just right click on the global origin and choose 'Place'. then set the axes to align with the paper. When you're finished, right click on the origin and choose 'Reset'.
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See this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=274345#p274345 and this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=273671#p273671 for a WorkPlane and Axial/Normal cline tools.......
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