I mainly use Krita as a design tool for engineering as I have found it to be amazing for producing hand calculations and hand drafted details for coordination.

Something that for my use case would be amazing is if the measuring tool had the ability to have a scale applied to the distance value. As a catch all I can envision two additional input/info boxes under the tool options the first box being "scale" as a numerical value input to simply act as a multiplier on the reported distance value and the second being "scaled distance" with the option to choose units. So I could say set the tool to measure in inches but report the scaled value in feet.

Thanks for producing this awesome software.

donnieb wrote:I mainly use Krita as a design tool for engineering as I have found it to be amazing for producing hand calculations and hand drafted details for coordination.

How?

This is not sarcasm, I am really dying with curiosity as to what your workflow/goal is...

The thing you're asking sounds doable, but I think if we understand your workflow better we can understand why you need it, and implement it more elegantly.

I use it basically as a digital drafting table with the upfront understanding that I won't be drafting to scale per se. My pipe dream would be having an option to display the dimension, start point to tip point linear dimension, of the line your drawing in a tooltip, thinking a black rounded rectangle with white text and dimension noted as X.xx" actual X' X.xx" scaled, above the pen tip which could be set to a drafting scale,i.e. 3/4" = 1'-0" which is a numerical scale factor of 16 if drawing in inches, which would allow for actual to scale hand drawings....in my mind this seems like it would be a pain to develop.

Typical workflow as an example on single family home, for these jobs the fee is usually very low so we don't provide any drafting work we simply provide mark ups for the architects to then incorporate, would be:

• get PDF from architect
• export plan sheets to 300dpi or 150 dpi tiff via ghostscript
• import each floor plan to a new layer in krita - set layer mode to mulitply for each plan
• create a mark up layer for each plan
• create a load tracking layer for each plan
• add a blue and red solid colored layers - set layer blend to screen - I use these along with the multiply from above to easily see elements that stack vertically
• Starting at the roof begin tracking loads and design beams, posts, etc. and mark up each floor as I go - this is where the measuring tool comes in handy as right now I am either multiplying the value from this on my own or using my PDF software to get the scaled distance to do my load calculations.
• once all the mark ups are done export each plan to PDF and combine and send it back to the archiect for their use.

I can usually get thru an entire house design in 8-16 hrs with this workflow vs my old method of using trace paper which adds about 4 hours of labor as well as the physical items I now have to file.