Alan Cooper Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Why does info management output a different result to object information palette? Preference for modelling currently set to always smooth. Draw a circle 12.5mm radius and reshape it. The resulting smooth cylinder shows as 12.5mm radius (25mm diameter) in the pick object info parameters. But info management says the cylinder measures 24.9974 mm x24.9959 mm. The obvious explanation would be that info management first converts everything to faceted before its calculations. This is unfortunate in my opinion, but maybe the only way it can operate. I would love circles to be recognised as circles and circle derived cylinders and circles to maintain their geometric dimensions. This would also be useful when using FormZ in a geometrical way, where intersections need to be found on circle perimeters. It doesn't work if circles are faceted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Mine reports as 25mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Could this be a difference between Mac and Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 I just tried again, this time result is 24.9975 x 25.0000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Unless I have some project settings wrong. Attached settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I matched your settings, recreated the cylinder and Still come up with 25 and 25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHTOH Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Proper 25 mm in my case Mac OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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