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Overhaul of graphical projection
Christiaan posted a question in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests
While I was writing this wish about projection settings I was reminded of a couple of bugbears I have about graphical projection in Vectorworks. 1. Better nomenclature Vectorworks uses the term "Isometric" to describe a view that can in fact be isometric or perspective, depending on whether the user has perspective or orthogonal projection active. (and in fact the icons in the Standard View dropdown menu in the View Bar show perspective projection). I understand why it's like this, because there's no good nomenclature that describes both an isometric and perspective view from a standard angle. Except perhaps "3D", but then the Top, Front, Right, Bottom, Back and Left views can also be 3D views. One way around this could be to use dynamic menus that change depending on the projection that is currently active. So if isometric projection is active the Standard View menu would offer "Right Isometric". If perspective projection is active it would offer "Right Perspective" instead. 2. Fix oblique views I don't ever remember the Oblique Cavalier and Oblique Cabinet views ever consistently working properly. In fact in 2023 they don't seem to do anything. And in 2022 it's much the same problem. But, apart from wanting them to actually work, the same principle as item 1 could be applied. If Oblique Cavalier 45 projection is active, the Standard Views menu would dynamically change to describe views as Oblique Cavalier 45, and provide the ability to switch between different views while maintaining Oblique Cavalier 45 projection. 3. Custom Parallel Projection settings Even better would be a new Custom Parallel Projection settings window, allowing us create custom axonometry, which we can save as Styles. Vectorworks could then include all the most common ones as Parallel Projection Styles, including Dimetric and Trimetric. 4. View widget/cube + behave like Blender See: https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/101549-overhaul-of-graphical-projection/#comment-444807- 19 replies
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1. Control 'isometric' and plan/elevation views separately We'd like an additional setting under 3D Vectorworks Preferences, to control the default projection of plan and elevation views separately from the 'isometric' views. We have had the ability for some time now to control the default 3D View Projection, between Orthographic and Perspective, which is great. However, as mentioned by Andy in this thread, if we set this to Perspective then this setting not only applies to 'isometric' views but also to the plan and elevation views, which is not desirable. Instead we'd like to be able to set the isometric views to perspective while setting the plan and elevation views to orthographic. 2. Provide option to have these settings apply regardless of which projection the user is switching from Additionally, we'd like an option to have the above settings apply regardless of which projection the user is switching from, instead of only applying when switching from Top/Plan view, as they do now. VE-103478
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