Tobias Kern Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 (edited) Hi, besides Vectorworks I am a big Sketchup fan. Some Display Modes that Sketchup have, are very good and i like to have in VW too, because you can check very fast your drawings. The new Display Modes should be controlled via this menu: A1. Color by Axis on/off (see below) … show all lines in the colors of the axis. You can easily check if you have cleanly drawn orthogonal. red = x-axis green = y-axis blue = z-axis black = no x-, or y-, or z-axis If you set a different axis, the colors should react to the new axis. A2. Show Endpoints on/off (see above) … show all endpoint of the geometry. You can easily check how complex a geometry is. A3. Show Transparentmode on/off (see below) … shows the complete drawing transparent With this mode, you can snap the lines behind. A4. Show Hidden Lines on/off (see below) … shows the hidden lines of the complete drawing In this mode, you can snap to the lines behind too. r All modes should be mixed together, as you can see in the screenshots. / / / B. In VW we can draw in a specific direction via pressing the defined shortcut. (in the german version we have the "t"-key for that). This solution is ok and works, but i think the Sketchup solution is way better and faster to manage. In Sketchup the arrow-keys are defined for the drawing directions. you click to start a line/polygon, nurbscurve or whatever, then you press the specific arrow key and then the lines only can be drawn in this direction. arrow up = z-axis (blue) only up and down arrow left = y-axis (green) only forward and backward arrow right = x-axis (red) only right or left the arrow down key is a bit special. the key defines a non x/y/z direction, with the cursor you have to be over a non orthogonal line then press arrow down, now you only can draw in this direction. with the other modes (up, left, right) you don't have to be over a line. Summary: With this new modes, i think we draw faster and can check more easily what we have produced. Cheers from Germany Tobi Edited October 14, 2020 by Tobias Kern Quote Link to comment
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Tobias Kern
Hi,
besides Vectorworks I am a big Sketchup fan.
Some Display Modes that Sketchup have, are very good
and i like to have in VW too, because you can check
very fast your drawings.
The new Display Modes should be controlled via this menu:
A1. Color by Axis on/off (see below)
… show all lines in the colors of the axis.
You can easily check if you have cleanly drawn orthogonal.
red = x-axis
green = y-axis
blue = z-axis
black = no x-, or y-, or z-axis
If you set a different axis, the colors should react to the new axis.
A2. Show Endpoints on/off (see above)
… show all endpoint of the geometry.
You can easily check how complex a geometry is.
A3. Show Transparentmode on/off (see below)
… shows the complete drawing transparent
With this mode, you can snap the lines behind.
A4. Show Hidden Lines on/off (see below)
… shows the hidden lines of the complete drawing
In this mode, you can snap to the lines behind too.
r
All modes should be mixed together, as you can see in the screenshots.
/ / /
B.
In VW we can draw in a specific direction via pressing the defined shortcut.
(in the german version we have the "t"-key for that).
This solution is ok and works, but i think the Sketchup solution is way better and faster to manage.
In Sketchup the arrow-keys are defined for the drawing directions.
you click to start a line/polygon, nurbscurve or whatever, then you press
the specific arrow key and then the lines only can be drawn in this direction.
arrow up = z-axis (blue) only up and down
arrow left = y-axis (green) only forward and backward
arrow right = x-axis (red) only right or left
the arrow down key is a bit special. the key defines a non x/y/z direction,
with the cursor you have to be over a non orthogonal line then press arrow down,
now you only can draw in this direction.
with the other modes (up, left, right) you don't have to be over a line.
Summary:
With this new modes, i think we draw faster and can check more
easily what we have produced.
Cheers from Germany
Tobi
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