dimensions of objects/components?

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I’ve asked this same thing some 4 years ago…Coming from LW I’ve adapted pretty well to the SI Units concept…what I could not adapt to however is the lack of dimensioning tools for XSI’s weirdo unit system. They force us to use their own system and then they provide no tools for it! (and please don’t start me with those hackarounds of using constrained nulls, etc.
Best thing I did was dumping XSI altogether in architectural modeling and started using Sketchup! What used to take hours can now be acomplished in minutes!
So, as others said, if you need precison modeling use something else and, if you later import it into XSI to texture and render, just pray that the client doesn’t request changes.

Quoted for total agreement – well said!

Regards,

J

[nixx]

Toona, Rui : Amen brothers

nixx

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So, as others said, if you need precison modeling use something else and, if you later import it into XSI to texture and render, just pray that the client doesn’t request changes.

so true…this workflow is a pain ! But I still model in LW because of that issue (that and the way primitives have to be “drawn”).

very sad, because most of xsi’s modeling tools are way better than lightwave’s one.

Would it be possible to create a simple script to ‘convert’ the SI unit of measurement into something more paletable and user friendly? SI<>M shouldnt be more than a decimal point movement ?

No need for a script, just say that a SI unit is 1 meter ! (and set gravity to 9.81 instead of 98.1)

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