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Stage Deck Tool - Xs


Andy Broomell

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I really love the Stage Deck tool in 2017 - it's great for quickly laying out Steeldeck, and having the 3D component automatically created.

 

One thing that I'd love the tool to incorporate is the ability to have an "X" from corner to corner in the Top/Plan view (for rectangular decks). This is a convention many of the people I work with expect, and it'd be nice to have it be part of the Stage Deck tool instead of having to draw them in manually.

 

The line type, color, and thickness would want to be user-definable, independent of the Stage Deck's attributes.

 

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I would called them "crossed lines" as per 4.3.2 of the USITT graphic standards document - http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pacshop/usitt92.pdf . So in this case it would be Staging>Crossed Lines.

 

(The USITT document somewhat predates CAD in general, but the standards appear in most textbooks for theatre design. There may be a more modern version of the USITT document as I just did a quick internet search to provide a link.)

 

Kevin

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12 minutes ago, Mickey said:

I like this idea, but crossed line could be confusing.

How about "Centering Lines" or "Center Crosses"

 

 

I think relating them to the word "centre" is way more confusing. The crosses do not necessarily relate to the centre of irregular platforms. The standard also calls for the lines to be light, solid lines whereas usually "centre" is associated with dot/dash centrelines.

 

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4 hours ago, Wesley Burrows said:

@C. Andrew Dunning  Is this something that's possible?

 

Definitely possible.  Just a matter of adding it to The List.

 

Would this just be for Stage Deck 2?

 

The level of "customizability" (line type, color, weight, etc.) would be TBD.  (Adding a simple toggle is one thing; adding multiple attribute parameters is another.)  If attributes end up being hard-coded, I'd be open to counsel as to what would be "right."

 

Interesting request, though.  I had not seen the thread until now.

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I think the easy solution in terms of graphic attributes would be to add a Classes Pop-up parameter for the "Crossed Lines", defaulting to match the object's parent class and leave it up to the user to set things like line type, line weight, color, etc.

 

I've also experimented with using "hidden" parameters that store data for particular overrides in graphic attributes so that options will generally follow the class definitions, but can be overridden on an object to object basis.  It does end up being a lot more code, though.

 

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