Back to the wishlist board it seems. I'd like the ability to rotate the co-ordinate system (not simply the view). Backwards compatibility be damned.
Am I making conceptual sense here? Do other CAD programs have this capability? How does Microstation deal with it?
Maybe I should state the outcome I want instead:
I want to be able to create our models/plans in real-world positions but have them at right-angles when we're working on them and presenting them as plans on a page.
The reason I want to create them in their real-world positions is that by doing so various complexities would be reduced because you tell the CAD program where the building is relative to its surroundings only once at the beginning of the process and it will always be there.
You can click on any point at any time and that is a real-world co-ordinate. You can use Stack Layers and see your model relative to its surroundings. You can export your plans/model to other file formats and it will be in their real-world position ready to be analysed in any way (such as sun angles). All without going through the error prone afterthought process of creating a translation (aka Layer Link).
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Back to the wishlist board it seems. I'd like the ability to rotate the co-ordinate system (not simply the view). Backwards compatibility be damned.
Am I making conceptual sense here? Do other CAD programs have this capability? How does Microstation deal with it?
Maybe I should state the outcome I want instead:
I want to be able to create our models/plans in real-world positions but have them at right-angles when we're working on them and presenting them as plans on a page.
The reason I want to create them in their real-world positions is that by doing so various complexities would be reduced because you tell the CAD program where the building is relative to its surroundings only once at the beginning of the process and it will always be there.
You can click on any point at any time and that is a real-world co-ordinate. You can use Stack Layers and see your model relative to its surroundings. You can export your plans/model to other file formats and it will be in their real-world position ready to be analysed in any way (such as sun angles). All without going through the error prone afterthought process of creating a translation (aka Layer Link).
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