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SketchUp / sketchup-stl

A SketchUp Ruby Extension that adds STL (STereoLithography) file format import and export.
http://extensions.sketchup.com/content/sketchup-stl
MIT License
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Units Options on Export #43

Closed briangbrown closed 12 years ago

briangbrown commented 12 years ago

I personally don't like that the options for selecting units for the export was removed. I think the user should have the option. It should probably default to mm because it is the most common (so I hear) unit used in STL.

thomthom commented 12 years ago

Where would the user access the options then? Make the export menu into a sub-menu with two child items?

scottlininger commented 12 years ago

It used to show a popup with every export. Guh. Having a second menu item is ugly, too.

When I asked Tommy and Jody what the behavior should be, they wanted "just millimeters." But then, they were only concerned with 3D printing...

Brian, is there a use case for needing other units?

briangbrown commented 12 years ago

Now we are back to showing a popup for every export to ask ASCII or binary. We could combine with that dialog and just have a general export options. Is there not the ability to add an options button to the save dialog as we do for the importer?

I'm assuming this isn't possible because there isn't an export class in the a pi.

As for a non-mm use case, I have no idea. Just seems inconsistent.

thomthom commented 12 years ago

If we have to display a popup to ask for binary vs ASCII we might as well add units to it. I can build an exporter options window like I did with the Importer.