Trying for minimal Annotations & Dimensions

[digitalcarbon]

[Benson Shaw]

Nice work and good demo of a good idea!

Those material and product labels could also be presented as hyperlinks to details and info elsewhere in the drawing file, or to jobsite staging/inventory data, or to www for mfg and vendor.

Engineers and other consultants? They should like this format if it can preserve the labels & allow extraction of geometry and data in plan/elevation views.

Builders? Want more dims, but a 3d measure device in the viewer would solve that.

Job site viewing tablet will have to be sturdy (drop proof, crush proof, rain proof, abrasion proof, readable in bright light, cleanable, blah blah blah)

Permit agencies? The paper prints require no electrical equipment to read, so resistance to change will continue. But they are coming along. The interactive 3d train will arrive at my building department sometime in the next 10 or 15 years.

-B

[J. Wallace]

Great idea digitalmechanics...makes a lot of sense.

ps. Have you imported some Sketchup components(pipe, fittings) or have you created these yourself?

Edited April 14, 2015 by J. Wallace

[digitalcarbon]

made them myself

[AlanW]

Hi,

I think this is a great idea and you can dimension all the work in 3d once and it shows in all the views. I am all for this way of conveying the information across to the viewer in the simplest and clearest way possible.

Nice.

[digitalcarbon]

the link to web page tool works in 3d

this is really really powerful

[digitalcarbon]

experimenting with tools to show what needs to be done