Plan Projections

[Jershaun]

Seeing this is a wish list, can I wish for some money to buy archicad :grin:.

But seriously, I wish Vectorworks would get rid of this hybrid non-sense and do something like this:

In addition, archicad's archilles heel in the past was it's modelling tools but based on the "shell" videos in this link (http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/design.html), I suspect archicad is going to leave vectorworks in the dust. I would have thought with the implementation of the Parasolid Modelling engine, vw would have surpassed ArchiCAD by now.

Anyway I would like to wish for better automatic Plan Representations of all VW objects.

Thanks,

[digitalcarbon]

yes, everything should work the same no mater what view.

[Dieter @ DWorks]

NOOOOO!

this isn't always what we want. In many cases, we need a totally different 2D/Plan representation than what we have in 3D Top view! Most of the time the 2D/Plan representation is a simplified version or uses text and other symbols.

Maybe an option for if you want it, but no change to it.

[grant_PD]

A good start would be a tick box upon creation of a 3d symbol that goes like this:

Display symbol in Plan Projection as:

-Hidden Line

-Dashed Hidden Line

-Wireframe

Then I would ask that one could set the line style of the plan display, so that things in the air could be dashed, etc.

Then I would ask that 3d objects could have a cutting plane applied to them, so that they would be solid line below the plane and dashed above, just like the wall tool does.

This functionality IS possible, because the Wall tool has it already. It's doubly irksome to want the feature, and see it already in the program just not useable.

[AndiACD]

irksome . . . . .?

i'll go with that?

[VincentCuclair]

How about a multi hybrid!? Create the 3D object and have several 2D view options each with a it's own 2D representation connected to a (or several) corresponding Design Layers.

Edited August 24, 2011 by Vincent C

[VincentCuclair]

....or just make editing a hybrids 2D symbol more flexible and easy

[Jershaun]

With archicad's options, it can represent modelled objects as the raw geometry "as is" OR a "cutting plane" view OR a "dotted overview" without the need to do anything else.

With vw, if one needs anything other than the raw geometry, one needs to create a symbol and then make a representative 2D outline. There's too much of manual work with vw and the drawing ends up with too many un-necessary symbols.

[Christiaan]

We shouldn't have to ask for this sort of thing. Unfortunately we have to ask because we can already partly achieve it via manual methods and there's not the vision at NV to see beyond this.