measuring tool

When ever I want to measure something, I drop a cube primitive onto the scene, go to the view I want to measure in, and move the opposite faces of the cube to align with what I want measured. Then I use the ‘scale to’ on the cube to see how big it is.

Voila, an adjustable ruler.

It’s a very old wish; so just a reminder: I’d love to have a measuring tool. Click one point, click a second point, get the distance.

I enthusiastically would like to second this motion.

It Gets My Vote!

yes, this would make a fantastic program even better !

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Use ‘Save As’ on the link or paste the code into the script window in 3DC…

Thanks very much Paul. An excellent addition !
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This will come in very handy.
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Bump!!
A measure tool has been requested for a long time, and would really help those of us converting from TSM (along with easy backdrop handling)
Experienced 3DC users say it isn`t needed, but that is because they`ve got used to working without it. Not a good reason
Thanks Rick

This may help…

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Part of a blog tutorial (only at part 2 at the moment)
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Gee… I thought I had completed the ‘easy backdrop’ feature. I did look at TSM to see what it had that was useful when I implemented it.

I just tried using the backdrop feature.
A small problem with the window sizing for narrow textures

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– can we get this window to be sizable with the image stretching?

I think I prefer the inverted cube method.
It allows front/rear and left/right images and keeps the grid as a reference.
With a bit of hierarchy adjustment (making the cube a child of the main group) it doesn’t matter where the main object origin is.