rotate-tool - create more duplicates in sequence would be great!

[matteoluigi]

Hi,

 

actually, whenever I use the rotate tool I always have to click 3 times for every new duplicate. first chose the center, then click on the first rotation point and then chose where to move the object.

 

whenever I want to create more than one duplicates of an object with the same rotation center I have to click 3 times for every duplicate however, I have to recheck the center, recheck the first point...

 

Why not:

 

active the object, chose the "rotate" tool, chose the rotation center and the point on the object, which has to be moved and than only click once for every rotated duplicate? This would save up to 60% of mouse-clicks (and is a normal function in nearly every CAD-Software).

Why not Vectorworks?

 

 

[Tom W.]

Duplicate Array is a quicker way of doing this at the moment. But that's not to say I don't agree with your wish + have voted it up

[matteoluigi]

Just now, Tom W. said:

Duplicate Array

yeah, duplicate array is useful, when your duplicates rotate all in the same angle (which has to be found out before rotating, as well) and you are sure about everything before using the command.

 

rotating more duplicates just by mouse clicks is more intuitive and can be used on duplicates with different angles as well.

[Michael Siggers]

On 9/19/2022 at 10:42 AM, matteoluigi said:

yeah, duplicate array is useful, when your duplicates rotate all in the same angle (which has to be found out before rotating, as well) and you are sure about everything before using the command.

 

rotating more duplicates just by mouse clicks is more intuitive and can be used on duplicates with different angles as well.

Hi

 

I second this. In Sketchup, once the first duplicate is done, typing 'x12' give 12 copies along the same radius and same spacing/angle.

 

I do find things like this in Vectorworks frustrating as this is just basics. It's almost as if the people writing the software do not actually use it in the real world.

 

Mike

[matteoluigi]

13 hours ago, Michael Siggers said:

It's almost as if the people writing the software do not actually use it in the real world.

somehow it feels more like "Vectorworks does bring so much potential but it still could be better, just by some simple changes or improvements".

Like the rotation tool. Feels like a really really low hanging fruit somehow to me ;-).

[Tefke]

How come this is still a thing, that we have to use extremely bad duplicate array tool, which takes time to learn, when there's a very simple way to make this work? Just duplicating with rotate tool, same as the move tool: ctrl+d or even better, use the same command as in Vectorworks: x12. This is extremely frustrating that simple drawing is made this hard and the same time there's time to develop ai-image tools within Vectorworks. Hard to believe that there's any listening of the users from Vectorworks