One of the biggest recent improvements in VW is that we now have a fairly good reference grid system, thanks to the Grid Line tool (effectively creating vertical reference planes) and the elevation benchmark tool (effectively creating horizontal reference planes).
The ability to set these up, know that they will stay in the right place and be independent of changes to the geometry of the model, and have them appear in the right place in viewports makes working in 3d feel a lot more secure and manageable, and allows various double-checking procedures to make sure things are where they are supposed to be.
I think it would be useful to have the facility to have reference planes that were neither horizontal or vertical. I'd be interested to see if anyone else would find this useful. Or maybe it is really a fringe request.
An example of when I might use it:
Sometimes I do works to existing buildings parts of which effectively get rebuilt, but need to be reinstated where they were. That might include pitched roofs. I might need to ensure that the outer surface of a pitched roof ends up where it was before even though the underlying construction has changed entirely. In this case, when preparing setting out drawings, the plane of the pre-existing roof surface is what various things need to be set out relative to. In this case it would be very useful to embed that pre-existing plane in the model as a reference. Just like I might do with an elevation benchmark set to an existing finished floor level, or a gridline set to the face of an existing wall, I could show an indication of this same plane in "existing" and "as proposed" viewports and double check that when I place things like new rafters, I have actually go them in the right place relative to what's important.
I think they could also be useful in keeping a handle on the geometry of things like new-build roofs too.
Obviously there would be a few things to think about, like whether they could appear on any section that intersected them, or only in views parallel with the plane and so on. But in principle they'd be very similar to gridlines and elevation benchmarks.
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One of the biggest recent improvements in VW is that we now have a fairly good reference grid system, thanks to the Grid Line tool (effectively creating vertical reference planes) and the elevation benchmark tool (effectively creating horizontal reference planes).
The ability to set these up, know that they will stay in the right place and be independent of changes to the geometry of the model, and have them appear in the right place in viewports makes working in 3d feel a lot more secure and manageable, and allows various double-checking procedures to make sure things are where they are supposed to be.
I think it would be useful to have the facility to have reference planes that were neither horizontal or vertical. I'd be interested to see if anyone else would find this useful. Or maybe it is really a fringe request.
An example of when I might use it:
Sometimes I do works to existing buildings parts of which effectively get rebuilt, but need to be reinstated where they were. That might include pitched roofs. I might need to ensure that the outer surface of a pitched roof ends up where it was before even though the underlying construction has changed entirely. In this case, when preparing setting out drawings, the plane of the pre-existing roof surface is what various things need to be set out relative to. In this case it would be very useful to embed that pre-existing plane in the model as a reference. Just like I might do with an elevation benchmark set to an existing finished floor level, or a gridline set to the face of an existing wall, I could show an indication of this same plane in "existing" and "as proposed" viewports and double check that when I place things like new rafters, I have actually go them in the right place relative to what's important.
I think they could also be useful in keeping a handle on the geometry of things like new-build roofs too.
Obviously there would be a few things to think about, like whether they could appear on any section that intersected them, or only in views parallel with the plane and so on. But in principle they'd be very similar to gridlines and elevation benchmarks.
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