Distance measurement tool

scenerygraphics / sciview

sciview is a tool for visualization and interaction with ND image and mesh data

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Closed kephale closed 11 months ago

kephale commented 7 years ago

We need a tool for easily measuring distances in 3D

skalarproduktraum commented 7 years ago

How about I provide facilities for that and you use them in ThreeDViewer?

kephale commented 7 years ago

We need:

[x] a picker for object selection
[x] a 3D cursor tool to select points in space that are not on an object (kind of like the ray of spheres that is currently created if you double-click on empty space in 3DV, but instead only make 1 sphere that you can slide along the ray using mouse scroll). This is pretty much exists already.
[x] a line in 3D space between 2 points

kephale commented 5 years ago

All of the required scenery support now exists for this.

kephale commented 3 years ago

@Domino2357

Domino2357 commented 3 years ago

Oh, the 3D cursor already exists! Okay, maybe my work is still valuable.

Domino2357 commented 3 years ago

Here is the plan:

[x] Click on a point on the screen and draw a line with the mouse drag (just like in paint).
[x] Pick two meshes and measure the distance between them, moreover, the ability to create these meshes. (in progress)
[ ] ability to choose also points in a volume
[ ] Display the distance in different units, depending on the selected mesh types
[x] Make it intuitive to use
[x] Integrate the solutions into SciView
[ ] User Testing

Domino2357 commented 3 years ago

@kephale or @skalarproduktraum would one of you be so kind as to point me to the 3D-Cursor?

kephale commented 3 years ago

kephale commented 3 years ago

kephale commented 1 year ago

@Domino2357 @skalarproduktraum Where are we on this? IIRC @Domino2357 has completed the work on the scenery side already.

kephale commented 11 months ago

This has been implemented https://github.com/scenerygraphics/sciview/blob/7227a02a228095beab22c8201558c1b7992adc81/src/main/kotlin/sc/iview/controls/behaviours/Ruler.kt#L46 but is not very exposed in the UI. We may want to revisit the UX of distance measurement at some point. However, I'm closing this as completed.