Bug Report: Align Gap oddities

[makinglayerschannel]

https://youtu.be/jEb-si3iNPA
Untitled design 3-bug-report.zip

Align gap option is greyed out unless I click away from the stacked objects. Also, can't easily get out of "gap align" once in it.

[henmedia]

@makinglayerschannel thanks for the video, that shows it well. You weren't doing it wrong, layerling just didn't tell you what to do:

• Four boxes duplicated on the same spot have no room between the first and the last one, so equal gaps has nowhere to spread them, and the dot is greyed out. A click on an empty spot of the plate makes the plate the reference: then equal gaps spreads the boxes over the whole plate. That is the click you found.
• A second click on the empty plate only lets the plate go again, it does not leave Align. To leave Align, press Esc or L, or click the Align button again.

I've added both to the hints: the greyed dot now says to click an empty spot of the plate, and Align's start message says that L or Esc ends it. It comes with the next version.

It is described here: Equal gaps

[henmedia]

@makinglayerschannel The new hints for equal gaps and for leaving Align are out in layerling 1.143.0: https://github.com/henmedia/layerling/releases/tag/v1.143.0. And with "Measure whole edges" on, the tape measure now also gives a cylinder's diameter when you click its rim.

[makinglayerschannel]

Thanks Stefan, the help mentions a "board". Are you referring to an sbc board or something else? (If a board is among the selected shape...)

[henmedia]

@makinglayerschannel No, not an SBC board. "Board" there means any shape the others stand on, for example a flat box as a base plate. If one of the selected shapes is longer in that direction than all the others, layerling takes it as the base: the other shapes are spread over it, with the same gap between them and to its edges, and the base itself stays where it is. Without such a shape, the empty plate can take that role: click an empty spot of the plate first.

It is described here: Equal gaps