one of my wish lists
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 3:56 pm
Hello again Art -
As I said earlier in the week, be on the lookout for my wishlists. Well here is one such compilation. It is a random collection of ideas as they have occurred to me. Enjoy !
1. Some helpful hotkeys: alt-F4 closes the program. F/f to zoom all. R/r to Regen.
2. I would like to add my vote for worms and worm gears. Yes please.
3. On the Circular Gear Module panel, being able to use Rack Fillet on Epi spurs would be very beneficial. Particularly with small module low tooth count pinions. Those teeth or 'leaves' are very thin and radii down in the dedendums add much needed strength. These small pinions can generally only be cut with a Shaped Tool fly cutter. So the cutter profile should have those radii.
4. Would be truly very helpful to have the Perspective panel on both the 3-axis and the 4th axis ribbons.
5. Ability to choose conventional vs climb milling for 4th axis. The Uni-Directional checkbox would become a 3-way toggle: Conventional/Climb/Uni-Directional.
6. The About button (and its popup tooltip) in the upper right most corner currently has a tiny print icon on it. Suggest changing it to a question mark and then making it into a drop down menu that has three choices: 'About', 'User Manual', 'Video Tutorials'. And remove the red question mark from the output Options panel. It's not an output, of course. Also remove the Help button on the About Gearotic dialog, or add a Video Tutorials button to it.
7. The Full Screen button (and its popup tooltip) on the quick access toolbar has an email attachment icon. Suggest using an icon for full screen that is seen on various video player applications.
8. On the Selected Props tab on the lower panel, I think the label on the button "Send to Workbench" would make more sense if it was labeled "Send to 3-Axis" It would then jive with the 3-Axis Modality Select button graphic on the Tools panel and also the label on the 3-axis ribbon tab.
9. The pinwheel escapement would be a nice addition. It's another type of deadbeat.
10. Sort by Linkages added to the dropdown menu of the Project tab on the left side panel. It would look like Sort as List but instead of the Vertices and Triangles, the first order linked objects are listed. Selecting any given parent on the tree also selects the objects in the model that are linked to that parent.
11. Individual checkmarks in the project tree could cycle thru three view style states: solid/wireframe/hidden. An outline of a checkmark would be the icon for wireframe. A nice mod to the "Project Tree" master on/off switch would be to add wireframe there as well so you can cycle thru these three states for the whole project.
12. The status bar currently shows nothing. I vaguely recall a post about some intended purpose but I dont remember what. So how about this: remove the Coordinates panels from all the ribbons. The status bar will have X:<#.#> Y:<#.#> Z:<#.#> justified to the left; things like 'Simulation Active ~ .....' and measurement results justified in the center; Gearotic's current active mode justified to the right.
13. And now a word about Headly McGearhead... My sister says, and I agree, Headly is kinda odd. And in the new video about slicing, you mention that he lives in an STL file named 'Compass' in the install directory. So what did I do? I promptly went noodling around the internet for a more suitable successor. See the attached. But when updating to ongoing releases of Gearotic, Gromit would be deposed. So even though this would be the lowest priority of Gearotic software development, I would like to ask for a place in the options dialog to upload one's own little 3D model. Or just a choice to turn off the compass.
As I said earlier in the week, be on the lookout for my wishlists. Well here is one such compilation. It is a random collection of ideas as they have occurred to me. Enjoy !
1. Some helpful hotkeys: alt-F4 closes the program. F/f to zoom all. R/r to Regen.
2. I would like to add my vote for worms and worm gears. Yes please.
3. On the Circular Gear Module panel, being able to use Rack Fillet on Epi spurs would be very beneficial. Particularly with small module low tooth count pinions. Those teeth or 'leaves' are very thin and radii down in the dedendums add much needed strength. These small pinions can generally only be cut with a Shaped Tool fly cutter. So the cutter profile should have those radii.
4. Would be truly very helpful to have the Perspective panel on both the 3-axis and the 4th axis ribbons.
5. Ability to choose conventional vs climb milling for 4th axis. The Uni-Directional checkbox would become a 3-way toggle: Conventional/Climb/Uni-Directional.
6. The About button (and its popup tooltip) in the upper right most corner currently has a tiny print icon on it. Suggest changing it to a question mark and then making it into a drop down menu that has three choices: 'About', 'User Manual', 'Video Tutorials'. And remove the red question mark from the output Options panel. It's not an output, of course. Also remove the Help button on the About Gearotic dialog, or add a Video Tutorials button to it.
7. The Full Screen button (and its popup tooltip) on the quick access toolbar has an email attachment icon. Suggest using an icon for full screen that is seen on various video player applications.
8. On the Selected Props tab on the lower panel, I think the label on the button "Send to Workbench" would make more sense if it was labeled "Send to 3-Axis" It would then jive with the 3-Axis Modality Select button graphic on the Tools panel and also the label on the 3-axis ribbon tab.
9. The pinwheel escapement would be a nice addition. It's another type of deadbeat.
10. Sort by Linkages added to the dropdown menu of the Project tab on the left side panel. It would look like Sort as List but instead of the Vertices and Triangles, the first order linked objects are listed. Selecting any given parent on the tree also selects the objects in the model that are linked to that parent.
11. Individual checkmarks in the project tree could cycle thru three view style states: solid/wireframe/hidden. An outline of a checkmark would be the icon for wireframe. A nice mod to the "Project Tree" master on/off switch would be to add wireframe there as well so you can cycle thru these three states for the whole project.
12. The status bar currently shows nothing. I vaguely recall a post about some intended purpose but I dont remember what. So how about this: remove the Coordinates panels from all the ribbons. The status bar will have X:<#.#> Y:<#.#> Z:<#.#> justified to the left; things like 'Simulation Active ~ .....' and measurement results justified in the center; Gearotic's current active mode justified to the right.
13. And now a word about Headly McGearhead... My sister says, and I agree, Headly is kinda odd. And in the new video about slicing, you mention that he lives in an STL file named 'Compass' in the install directory. So what did I do? I promptly went noodling around the internet for a more suitable successor. See the attached. But when updating to ongoing releases of Gearotic, Gromit would be deposed. So even though this would be the lowest priority of Gearotic software development, I would like to ask for a place in the options dialog to upload one's own little 3D model. Or just a choice to turn off the compass.