area and girth scale, also properties points and lines

[Grant]

Hi, a few questions, perhaps new features.

1. In our designs we give most measurements in millimeters, thus I start my designs with millimeters.  This seems to work OK, except I noticed that for the section area graph, that is combined with the girth length that the vertical scale is based on the wetted girth which is in mm and thus goes up into the thousands, but the area is given in square meters (thats OK), but given the scale goes up into the 1000s, their is no perceptible graph for the area, which only goes up to around a few meters, in otherwords, in the 1s.  Is there a way to use two graphs, or have the scale for one on one side and the scale for the other on the other side of the graph - that would always work I think

2. I would like to make the waterline thicker, not just another color, to make it stand out more during my design work.  I can imagine I might want to do this with other sections, waterlines, etc.  I tried this with the PrintDisplay command of Rhino, but ORCA2D resets the color when it updates its objects.  Is there a way to  change the line thickness (and type) for ORCA3D specific objects via ORCA3D, or other commands.  I am guessing adding in the ability to maintain the printcolor of ORCA3D objects is the way to go, if there is not an existing solution...

[lleibman]

Hi Grant,

Regarding question 1, the reporting tool we are using, Microsoft ReportViewer, does not offer the capability to plot against separate right and left hand axes. This would have been our preferred approach. Rather than have two separate graphs, we have modified the logic to plot using a scientific notation. For example if the maximum area was 100 m^2 and the maximum girth was 10,000 mm, the plot would show area plotted as 10^2 m^2 and girth as 10^4 m. Both would then have a maximum of 1. This will be available in the next release of Orca3D.

Regarding question 2, since Orca3D sections are recomputed whenever the geometry is changed, we need to maintain full control of their properties. We will look at ways to let the user control all of the normal Rhino curve attribution for Orca3D sections.