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I think any orthogonal 45/45/90° View is not legible.

 

Regular Column Top and Bottom make it look like diamonds or something but not

as Columns. Similar to Wall connections of 90° oriented Walls with same thickness ....

 

I vote for the Isometric preset (at least optional)

to be/switch to a 30/60/90° rotation !

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15 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:

There are so many things Vectorworks could learn from Blender. Here are a few of my thoughts on navigation:

  • Single mouse button modifier to activate flyover. In Blender you just click and hold MMB to flyover. Super simple. In Vectorworks you have you to either activate a whole separate TOOL (Shift+C), or hold CTRL (yes even on a Mac) while clicking and holding MMB.
     
  • The view widget as mentioned above. It's way more visual and interactive. It's great when you want to look at a view relative to your current view without having the think about which view you're in and then think about which standard view is the one you want compared to the one you're in. Also in Blender, clicking on an axis for an orthographic view automatically uses orthographic projection.
     
  • If you're flying around in perspective projection and add the Opt key, whenever you're near an orthographic view it snaps to the orthogonal projection of that view. THIS IS SO COOL. Vectorworks can't even get this perspective vs. orthogonal thing right in menu preferences, and yet Blender has it there interactively and by default. Plus it knows to switch back to perspective when you continue flying around.
     
  • When you're already in an orthographic view, you can continue holding the Opt key, then use MMB to flyover to the left, right, up, or down, to sort of "swipe" to that adjacent orthographic view. Also amazing.
     

Here's a video demonstrating some of these points in case it doesn't make sense in written form. It's just so easy:

 

 

 

 

Also a reminder that Blender is free.

 

 

 

That's just great. I've added this to the original post.

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1 hour ago, zoomer said:

OK, I learned my favorite Isometric is called "Trimetric"

 

Great to know it has a (nice) name.

So that means it is official !

 

+100 for Trimetric View in VW.

 

Dimetric for me.

 

Btw "Lower Right Rear Parallel Orthographic Auxiliary Dimetric" just rolls off the tongue, so I think we should rename the views accordingly. So much more accurate and helpful... 

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13 minutes ago, Mark Aceto said:

so I think we should rename the views accordingly.

 

I asked for that in any CAD I used since 2+ decades.

But no one was willing to add that.

 

Either true Isometrics are easier to program or there is a secret

CAD cartel that decided Trimetrics are not appropriate.

 

Funny thing is that Modo also uses a true Isometric.

But somehow I never had the felt the need to escape from that

45/45/90° there.

Maybe just because you rotated off once and it was kept.

While in CAD Apps you always switch to a new true Isometric

e.g. with VW's NumBlock 1, 3, 7 or 9 or a view gizmo.

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