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Is it possible to select the folds orientation when creating the Base Feature?

Open leoheck opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

When I create a L-Shape or U-Shape as Base Features, it adds folds to the front/back when looking to the XZ-plane. Which is the initial focused plane (which is also the shortcut 1)

It would be better to have them initially on the left/right sides when looking at XZ-plane.

But a better alternative would be to allow the user to select the orientation while creating the Base Feature, what do you think?

This is the standard way the L-Shape/U-Shape are created

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I would like to set it like this (not having to rotate the Body)

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leoheck avatar Jun 20 '24 17:06 leoheck

This is really a mater of user preference, and IMHO does not worth further complicating the GUI

shaise avatar Jun 20 '24 18:06 shaise

I would use another item and with a dropdown list with 2 planes (XZ-Plane, YZ-Plane), and then this would be shown only one those 2 items. But keeping as it is is fine for me.

What about updating those to be done on the left/right looking to the XZ-Plane instead of front/back?

leoheck avatar Jun 20 '24 19:06 leoheck