J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... schrieb:
Great work Max! I like the idea, but haven't tried/seen it yet.
Thanks! But keep in mind that this was only possible because you enabled angled guidelines. :)
I can imagine that this would be useful for any object. Not to replace the object, but to create guides along the bbox of the current selection or the objects in the current selection. Of course this could be handled with some sort of dynamic guides or snapping too.
Good idea Aaron, hope it's not too much work Max?
Nope. Just wasn't sure if it's really useful. But since Aaron requested it, in current SVN the command "Object->Object to guides" converts _all_ objects in the selection to guides. As before, for rectangles and 3D boxes these guides are aligned along the edges. For all other objects, the guides are simply aligned along the borders of the bounding box. I made it so that the command recurses into groups (i.e., all objects are converted individually, regardless if they are grouped or not). Does this seem useful or should groups be treated as a whole?
As for the keyboard shortcut, I guess if we want to keep the above behaviour we should now go for a global one instead of having Shift+G enabled in Selector, Rectangle and 3D Box tools but nowhere else (or maybe we could keep Shift+G in Selector only). Suggestions are still welcome. How about Ctrl+Shift+I? (With some imagination the 'I' looks a bit like a Guideline, and 'i' also activates the command in the object menu).
Max
P.S.: Despite the positive feedback, my concern about Frost still applies. So if it's inappropriate, please roll back these changes.