Vectorworks User Interface Feature Catalog

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User Interface

1.
All those Plugin and similar Objects to use a same common Editing/Settings Window
with same Appearance. Like Stair Tool.

With Tabbed Layout and Preview

Edited September 15, 2016 by zoomer

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User Interface

7.
Auto Update Option for Viewports.
Selective per Viewport.
Maybe even active only when in a Sheet Layer.
Or when CPU Idles.

(Should not be a problem for Floor Plans that use a Top Plan View only ?)

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User Interface

2.
No more Dialogs Windows that will block Vectorworks until you clicked ok to leave that Window.

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User Interface

5.
Tabs in OIP to collapse unneeded information and options.
To not need to scroll that far all the time.

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User Interface

14.
Please clean up all these redundant Tools like Move 2D vs Move 3D,
CMD+M and CMD+SHIFT+M.
That should be normally done by graphically "Move by Points" Tool anyway.
So if such a numeric only Tool needed at all, extend function to something like "Set Position"
"Set Rotation" to assign same Values to multiple selected (different types of) Elements
Or things like "Import Single"/"Import Multiple DWG"

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15.
Use Cursor Direction in any Tool to avoid the need of negativ numeric input.
Use it to activate the appropriate Axis's Input Field.

 

If not possible better renounce of the red bubble at all and make negative input needed
for all Tools. So you will know where you at.

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User Interface

3.
Realtime Previews and Life Editing for all Modification Tools if applicable

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User Interface

4.
Realtime 1:1 Preview when setting Plugin Objects Windows of the current Objects in File

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User Interface

6.
Additional Ressource Manager Light like it was before with Ressource Browser.
A simplified small er Version that you can leave open and docked at the side.
Just for quickly editing, renaming or duplication of Symbols, Styles, ....

While keeping the Ressource Manager Ribbon for when doing larger/longer
Ressourec Management Actions.

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User Interface

8.
Docking :
Priority for side Bar Docking,
Bottom Docking Area limited to the Space between both Columns left and right.

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User Interface

9.
Freedom for all Commands :
Provide Tool Icons for all Tools currently prisoned in the Menu Bar.

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Exactly.

I pulled my (Main) Basic Tool Bar down.
And it only wants to use the whole bottom length.
Maybe I need to fill the bottom corner first - before filling the columns ?

Or is it because Basic Tool Bar is 1-row only ?

 

But I like Marissa's idea of the all time available resource manager at the bottom !

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4 minutes ago, zoomer said:

OK, got it ... Marissa is on Windows ....

Yeah, I've had some trouble getting the same setup on my Mac... I'll let you know if and when I get it there!

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52 minutes ago, MarissaF said:

Yeah, I've had some trouble getting the same setup on my Mac... I'll let you know if and when I get it there!

Yes, pleeeeeaaaaase .....

I tried again some minutes ago, no chance

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User Interface

10.
New set of stylish, resolution independent, vector based Icons:
Don't need to be Black and White only but perhaps use not too many colors.

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User Interface

11.
Divide Icons and Tools in Creation Tools vs Manipulation Tools.
 

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User Interface

12.
Allow any kind of appealing Separation in Tool Boxes to order these.

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User Interface

13.
Maybe not only use "Tool Sets" as tool sets but as "Workflow Sets".
So for Example the "3D Tool Box" would be more a "3D Modeling Workflow Box",
which of course needs the "2D" rectangle Tool to create a Cube,
or create a proper Cube/Slab Tool that allows to give a Z Value even in Top Plan View.

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User Interface

16.
Ability to pull Layer Stack or Component Order Everywhere,
nut just at the Stack Number Field.

Drag'n'Drop or so ....

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3 hours ago, zoomer said:

User Interface

8.
Docking :
Priority for side Bar Docking,
Bottom Docking Area limited to the Space between both Columns left and right.

@zoomer- is this what you mean by the limited bottom docking area? Screen cap from the 2017 Marionette Improvements video that @MarissaFposted yesterday.

Edited September 15, 2016 by rDesign

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OK, got it ... Marissa is on Windows ....

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On September 15, 2016 at 2:19 PM, MarissaF said:

Yeah, I've had some trouble getting the same setup on my Mac... I'll let you know if and when I get it there!

 

On September 15, 2016 at 3:11 PM, zoomer said:

Yes, pleeeeeaaaaase .....

I tried again some minutes ago, no chance

I've tried to do this as well on OS X with no luck, I'm guessing it is a Windows-only capability.