This patch moves the ruler to the tools tab of the 3dview toolbar instead of the Grease pencil tab
Details
Details
- Reviewers
Julian Eisel (Severin) Joshua Leung (aligorith) - Maniphest Tasks
- T49334: Move Interactive ruler out of grease pencil
Diff Detail
Diff Detail
Event Timeline
| release/scripts/startup/bl_ui/properties_grease_pencil_common.py | ||
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| 159 | There is a typo here :) | |
| 160 | Codestyle, this should be col.operator("gpencil.convert", text="Convert to Path").type = 'PATH' | |
| release/scripts/startup/bl_ui/space_view3d_toolbar.py | ||
| 114–115 | Couple of issues here:
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Comment Actions
Ruler/Protractor use is not easy.
You may change a ruler into a protractor while you just want to select it between several to copy its value.
You can't display some rulers/protractors and hide other ones.
Like Grease Pencil, it will benefit to become an object in 2.8.
With such design, Grease Pencil Tools tab could become a Ruler Tools tab according to selected object.
With an edit mode, we could parent a start or an end of ruler to vertex of a moving object and see a value updated during an animation.
There is an opportunity to add a room for useful cotattions and measurements instead of current quick checking tool.
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The panel is for object tools, not general tools like the ruler.
I cannot think of an area of Blender where these two exist together. So we could create a new panel but that is strange because I do not think there is anything else we could move to this panel.
So suggestions would be helpful, however, I guess IMO we should close this, and use either T49334 or create a new task and fix this in 2.8
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Agree, we need to decide where to put this. In 2.8, the 3D view always uses GP object and the annotation will be a separated tool. @Joshua Leung (aligorith) is working to create a separated module for anotations only, so this must be a point to consider in this module.