Hello!
We’ve finally adopted Speckle into our production workflow (following the recent Connector updates), where we are making significant use of the Viewer. In this workflow, we are using iPads to view fabrication documents on the floor.
I’ve run into what seems to be a bug with Measure Mode in the viewer when open on my iPad. I am using an 10th Gen iPad running iPadOS 18.4.1. I’ve tested this in Safari and Chrome with the same issue. This is not present on my Android phone where the expected tapping behavior seems to work the same as it would on desktop.
Objective: Use the measure tool on iPad in the same intuitive manner as on other platforms. A tap on an object while using the Viewer in measure mode on an iPad registers a point the same way as a tap on Android or a click on desktop.
Issue: Placing a measure point requires a drag to locate the point and a tap, to “lock it in”, rather than the single tap that one might expect. This dragging simultaneously manipulates the view, making the measure tool much less pleasant to use on iPad.
Example: I open the link on the iPad, select measure mode, and tap on the desired object. No point is registered. I then drag on the object slightly, resulting in a cursor to appear on the object and the view to orbit. A subsequent drag on the object moves this cursor but a drag elsewhere in the viewport only manipulates the view. Tapping anywhere with the cursor visible “accepts” the current point. Further taps on the object do nothing until another drag initiates the second point, which behaves the same as the first. The same process applies to the perpendicular measuring mode.
Link: I’ve also tried this with a few other models and got the same result. https://app.speckle.systems/projects/a06483c07d/models/858a6e53c0