New 2-D Drawing/Drafting Tools

Rhino 4.0

 

 


More than 40 new 2-D drawing/drafting commands and enhancements.

Dimensions/Annotation ( new, enhanced)

  • Dimension Styles now support:
    • Text gap size
    • Center mark size
    • Dimension line extension length
    • Dimension arrow length and style
    • Leader arrow length and style
    • Prefix and suffix text
    • Length value scale factor
    • Alternate dimension text with controls for number format, length value scale factor, precision display, and prefix and suffix text.
  • DimOrdinate - Ordinate dimensioning is now supported.
  • Hatch - Makes hatches using closed planar boundary curves. Specify the pattern, scale, and rotation for the hatch.
  • Dimensions - Radius and diameter now support blocks.
  • Leader
    • Optional text.
    • End and Int object snap to leader supported.
    • Arrow type and size control.
  • Layers - Supports line types, printed line width, and printed color.
  • Linetypes - Object and layer properties. Currently affect curves only - not surfaces, solids, or other object types.
  • Make2D - Faster and more accurate.
  • Print Color - New object and layer properties.
  • Print Line Width -  New object and layer properties to set line width in printer units.
  • SetLayerLinetype - Sets the linetype option for a layer.
  • SetLinetype - Sets the linetype option for a curve object.
  • SetLinetypeScale - Sets the global linetype scale.
  • Text - An insertion snap point has been added to text.

Printing/Plotting ( new, enhanced)

  • Page Layout for laying out a printed page.
    • Layout - Creates a layout viewport.
    • LayoutProperties - Change layout viewport properties.
    • Detail - Provides for adding or changing detail views. Detail viewports are modeling viewports that can be placed on a layout viewport. Detail views are treated like other Rhino objects in the page views.
    • HideInDetail/ShowInDetail: Hide and show objects in a detail view.
  • Print
    • The Print, Print Preview, and Print Setup dialogs have all been replaced with a single Print dialog.
    • Shaded printing works for all shaded modes.
    • Pan in the print preview window.
    • Wallpaper, gradient background, background bitmaps and construction plane axes print.
    • When scaling to fit, the scale displays.
    • Wireframe views are sent to printer as vector output.
    • Linetype, line width, and print color support, scripted version of print command, multiple-copy printing support.
    • Color Options - The user can now have output in Display color / Print color / Black and White.
    • Output color and unit display is now remembered between sessions.
    • Image File option prints to an image file instead of a printer.
    • Switch from portrait to landscape in the Print dialog box.
    • Print to image file resolution options: Custom, Display/Web Graphics, Low, Normal, and High Quality.
    • The window print area control has been enhanced with several new features: Resize/Move the paper rectangle, Resize/Move print margins, set window to a print scale.
    • Vector output (Fast) option.
  • PrintDisplay - Sets model or layout views to display the objects using their print settings for color, line type, and line width.
   

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