I'm trying to edit a "custom" door (strange group of choices on the menu there!).
After ungrouping, I find, to my dismay, that some of the objects are "generic solids," something we can't edit with VW. It should be a developer standard that all PIOs when ungrouped should, at their root, be composed of the most easily-editable object forms - i.e., they should all be extrudes, if possible, and boolean subtractions and additions should be avoided when not necessary. Same goes for those PIO objects that are done with NURBS surfaces when they could be extrusions.
While I'm on the subject, how about a truly parametric customizable door and window object? Enter data in a table combined with a graphic WYSIWYG interface to manipulate the form of the object.
By the way, I was demonstrating VW to an architect friend, and he was highly impressed by the "sill" object in the window settings window. I was too ashamed to tell him that it doesn't really work - that the settings don't allow us to manipulate the sill in the way that real windows are constructed, and that we still get an extraneouos bottom window frame clunked on top of the sill when we opt to show a sill. Again, what would be so hard about allowing the user to construct the actual sill profile as a polygon, and let the PIO use that to form the sill?
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I'm trying to edit a "custom" door (strange group of choices on the menu there!).
After ungrouping, I find, to my dismay, that some of the objects are "generic solids," something we can't edit with VW. It should be a developer standard that all PIOs when ungrouped should, at their root, be composed of the most easily-editable object forms - i.e., they should all be extrudes, if possible, and boolean subtractions and additions should be avoided when not necessary. Same goes for those PIO objects that are done with NURBS surfaces when they could be extrusions.
While I'm on the subject, how about a truly parametric customizable door and window object? Enter data in a table combined with a graphic WYSIWYG interface to manipulate the form of the object.
By the way, I was demonstrating VW to an architect friend, and he was highly impressed by the "sill" object in the window settings window. I was too ashamed to tell him that it doesn't really work - that the settings don't allow us to manipulate the sill in the way that real windows are constructed, and that we still get an extraneouos bottom window frame clunked on top of the sill when we opt to show a sill. Again, what would be so hard about allowing the user to construct the actual sill profile as a polygon, and let the PIO use that to form the sill?
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