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Right, I am to it!
For me-absolute game changer.

Btw. Had no idea its CAD-LIKE ))

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Thanks Stephen!

This is so great so far. thanks for this and archipack.
Is this intended to work on edit mode too?

Cheers!!!
Pato.

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Hi,
In facts only G/R/S are replaced by CAD Transform actions so everything else should work.
SHIFT+D / ALT+D / B / C are working out of the box, simply call the shortcuts and confirm with enter before G/R/S.
You may even use regular transform operations by using your mouse to trigger transform operation, then again g/r/s to either move rotate scale using native operators.

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Hi Patoaltaco,
At this time there is no specific support for edit mode.
Also curve snapping only work on straight lines segments (does not evaluate bezier curves)

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May add support for parents only, but not for other old school things (regular blender operators provide the ability to do it).
In facts, itā€™s all about what is CAD Transform, you wonā€™t never bother with objects origin anymore at transform time.

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What I noticed Window Select is inactive when CADTranslate enabledā€¦

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Window select is available using B shortcut, and also C for circle select.

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Congratulation !!
looking amazing !

Donated a bit :slight_smile:

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OK, great.
Possible to type-in a distance/angle during transforming?

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Yes, use keyboard and press enter to confirm, or esc to discard.
Negative values require the ā€œ-ā€ to be in first position.
Also the last value will remains visible in the ui (when you delete using backspace) as the info bar is not properly redrawn.

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Thats really nice because while trying to position isohypses w/CADSnap and entering keyboard
numerals I received incorrect value displayed on dragged color axis constraint lineā€¦
Theres a problem w/BL sets incremental grid snap depending on viewpoint and distance from the object.
In other words: when you re close to transformed object - you can snap to sub-grid units but working on large scale models /Eg terrain/ the further you grab-the greater grid snap is./you start w/centimeters, then the tens, 50ties and hundreds/

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Interesting 1pt solution.
Have you seen complete B.A.S.E. proposal with 1pt 2pt and 3pt snaps?
It supports edit mode for 1pt as well snap and mode changing during operations

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Hi 1D_inc,

Yep iā€™m aware of your fantastic work.
Until now the ā€œTransform operatorā€ is quite limited, and more like a proof of concept.
The real value in this add-on lie in the pure python snap api, allowing pre-transform snap ā€œfromā€ in a non blocking way as transform.translate based hacks.
So viewport navigation while transform is active is possible, and more complex tools using snap too, like B.A.S.E. ones / np_station.

This solution take inspiration of mano wiiā€™s work for opengl based snap, but only for curves as setting up opengl stack for huge objects is way too slow - buffers allocation, data conversion and filling, missing vital data types in bgl like UINT.

As side note, the 3 month grant for Germano sounds like a joke for such vital feature than snap, when you compare blenderā€™s snap state to any other dcc 2d / 3d app (https://developer.blender.org/T45734)
Canā€™t wait 10 more years for bf to expose a snap api so i decided to tackle this myself.

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Good.
We have long been fighting for decent CAD snaps.
Nice to see you referenced my teapot/monkey gif as well.

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Just got it, have a beer on me :beer: Great work!

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Nope. Does not cooperate. Some random value instead.

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Amazing addon, I have a small problem with scaling, it seems the pivot is stuck. Also scaling in more than 1 axis is not accurate.


Am I doing something wrong?

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Thank you very much!
What a medicine in this crazy snap world!
Just a comment, when we have a constraint to move X, Y or Z, the edge center Snap is not working.
Beautiful job!

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When an axis constraint is active, snap to edge / edge center compute the intersection of edge and axis.
Will prevent this behavior when using snap to edge center.

Looks like there is ā€œsignā€ an issue with the location.

You should at least start the action by setting a start point and a direction, then keyboard entry + enter will work.
At this time scale value is not as consistent as needed.

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Nope-after starting dragging and entering a keyed value it holds some random value and thats it for now.
I can understand it would need some amendments/corrections etc. Its first release anyway ))
BUT-nevertheless-ITS GREAT & GREATLY EXPECTED AND NEEDED TOOL.

I ll donate asa my budget gets balance, promise.