EleFront

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Description

EleFront is an add-on that allows the user to bake geometry, annotations and blocks with user defined attributes and or Rhino attributes. Rhino objects can be referenced and filtered dynamically, to be used in Grasshopper.

Full description and download from:

http://www.food4rhino.com/app/elefront

The discussion group below is the best place for asking questions and discussing the usage of the add-on.

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BUG: Vertical Dimensions

by Armin Seltz

Apr 6, 2017

Continuing to use Elefront a lot, I ran into another problem using Linear Dimension. In Rhino you can use a linear dimension to also be vertical, but in the Elefront component it seems that the P input only decided in which plane the text gets displayed, but not in which plane the dimension is taken and also the offset is wrong, going up, rather than outwards in the X-axis of the plane as expected.

Or did I misinterpret something. Surely this would be too large an oversight, if dimensions in Elefront only worked in the XY plane !?

Maybe someone can tell me how to do dimensions in all planes.

Thank you.

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    Ramon van der Heijden

    Hi Armin,

    So when making the comparison between the Grasshopper Dimension and the Elefront dimension, the "baseline" for grasshopper is the X-axis of the "P" for Elefront. In your example, you are measuring the distance between the points along the X-axis. In that direction, the distance is 0, as they are exactly above each other. Try specifying a ZX-plane instead and it will get you what you are looking for. 

    Using a plane instead of a baseline, gives the user just that bit more control over dimension alignment.

    The offset is always determined in the Y-direction of the specified plane (as you would expect).

    In either way, this is not a bug.

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    Apr 6, 2017