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Accurate Object Footprints

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This is a peek at a feature that should be available in the next major release. Thanks to much help from Arno ADE is now able to display the actual footprint of library objects rather than a rectangle. This is EGBB with its accurately depicted terminal:

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This is terrible news! No more nudge, compile, check, rotate and nudge a bit more, compile, check .......
What am I going to do with all these spare hours now?
 
chris said:
This is terrible news! No more nudge, compile, check, rotate and nudge a bit more, compile, check .......
What am I going to do with all these spare hours now?
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There will be an option to turn it off Chris ;)
 
Sorry guys - I will refrain from kissing anybody but still would like to express that this will be a significant step forward. Many thanks to Arno and Jon!
 
Oh wow,that is amazing,gentlemen.I was thinking to myself the other day why we don't have these yet.Now look!:) Thank you.
 
OhOw, all my FS friends that are using IS and almost convinced me to use it as well, will not like this.
But I do!!!!!
Thanks Jon, thanks Arno.

PS:mischievo: Would Arno be able to convince you as well to start working on the Béziers curves?:D
 
Thanks all - we are working on getting this into a suitable state for a beta but it may take a little while.
 
Jon is quite good in breaking my code, so it might take a few more iterations for us to iron all the bugs out :)

And Roby don't start about Bézier curves, I once implemented them when I worked on the (now deprecated) gPoly tool. Lots of fun :)
 
Just one more taster. This is the central terminal area for Heathrow - EGLL

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Looks good, Jon!

Now you just need to give the option of viewing the selected model in ModelConverterX, which is far more useful than a thumbnail (my opinion only).
 
Better ask Arno about that and see if he will let me use that functionality in MCX ;)
 
I see two options for that. Either ADE can call MCX with the path to the library and the active model (last argument I would have to add).

Or Jon could integrate the viewer component in ADE and handle the whole preview internally.
 
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