[Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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chrisb wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:50 am
paddle wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 8:32 am toggle constrain icons.png
I like the idea of reusing one of the dimensional icons and the angle symbol is good. As the most frequently used dimensional constraints are vertical and horizontal distance, I would appreciate it even more, if it was based on the horizontal distance icon.
I tried with distance but it didn't look good. I think with horizontal distance it will look similarly bad.
Maybe distance + horizontal distance together. But I'm not sure if it will look better than with angle.
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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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my take on toggle reference constraints:
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we can play with the separator color, angle of rotation or use the dimension icon as base instead of rotated horz. distance
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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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MisterMaker wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:24 am Mine is here I re-used dimension icon.
I'm not sure about the meaning of the "no parking" overlay. And it may be a bit too crowded to work with small size. I would like to see adrianinsaval's icon just turned horizontally :mrgreen: .
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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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@chrisb It's called a toggle but what you basically do is disable or enable the constrain. And so I added a disable icon on top of it. And yes you also press it to enable it, but there are not enough pixels for both.
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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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A couple of tries using the default dimension icons:

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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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MisterMaker wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:02 pm @chrisb It's called a toggle but what you basically do is disable or enable the constrain. And so I added a disable icon on top of it. And yes you also press it to enable it, but there are not enough pixels for both.
Aah, I understand the "disable" now. I could argue now that I didn't understand it immediately, but that's perhaps just me. But independent from that I would prefer less stuff on the icon.
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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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Adrians proposal made horizontal.
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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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Haavard wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:30 pm A couple of tries using the default dimension icons:

Toggle_reference_3_combined.png
I like the third.
chrisb wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:44 pm Aah, I understand the "disable" now. I could argue now that I didn't understand it immediately, but that's perhaps just me. But independent from that I would prefer less stuff on the icon.
Same here I didn't get it directly and think it's too detailed.

So what are we doing now? We have several good options so what now?

What about polyline icon ?
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Re: [Sketcher] Clearer icons for : Polyline, toggle construction, toggle constraints, toggle active constraints, ext geo

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paddle wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:09 am So what are we doing now? We have several good options so what now?
Should we make one of these famous polls? (3 participants guaranteed :roll: )
What about polyline icon ?
I dig the archives. There were some proposals showing that Polyline can do more than straight lines.
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