Stair Tool Rehab for 2050

[bc]

EDIT:  Just thought I'd bump this and put a more realistic time frame on the title.....

 

 

Kudos to those responsible for the current VW iteration.

I would like to request the following feature for 2020 or later.  It's huge, I know, but overdue.

We need a stair tool (and railing tool) that approaches this:

Go here to see what archiCAD has:

 

http://www.graphisoft.com/archicad/

 

Scroll down to the Archicad 21 Premier Event video and begin at about minute 18 to see a 20 min presentation on what a stair tool should do.

Thank you for your consideration of this matter.

We need a no-nonsense comprehensive stair tool please.

Edited September 10, 2019 by bc

[Ross Harris]

I think talking about ZH workflows is going way off beam. What we want is a tool that is easy to use and gives an array of useful features and stair types. Currently it's like getting a tooth pulled. I know designers who still use the simple stair tool because it's quicker to iterate with. 

Vectorworks are seemingly sticking with a dialog heavy process for just about everything and it's a massive overhead of tweaking settings,OKing them, tweaking again, rinse, repeat ad infinitum... until it errors out. What we need is something like revits family editor where we can make a parametric thing or bricscads parameterize function to make a 3d model parametric. No tool is ever going to be truly flexible to suit every situation, so there needs to be a solution. Making dumb solid models is not it in 2024. Hence why ZH likely use revit - they can take something created in maya or rhino (rhino inside?) and make it parametric so the design can be iterated with out having to endlessly model/remodel stuff. They probably have a basement full of people and budget that just feed that machine ‐ I'd wager not many of us here do not and can't justify a day on a handrail in a project. We just want tools that feel like they were designed for designers not how developers think. There are something like 4 or 5 tools just to do things to walls. How inefficient is that? It seems to be the VW mantra 'we'll just make another tool!` Like i said, the roadmap is packed with spotlight and landmark features and enhancements... not much for the arch tools.

 V-Ray also works in revit asa plugin, and revit between maya, so I believe there is a reasonable amount of interoperability in their softwares.

Edited August 27 by Ross Harris

[JuanCarlos]

Just wanted to let you know that the Stair is in the Roadmap, it was an oversight!

https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/public-roadmap?url=-486

Now would be a good time to add any particular wishes to the Stair card(s)

HTH 

[StefanoT]

There is light at the end of the stair (currently marked as "active research" in the roadmap)

 

Edited September 12 by StefanoT