Can we have a statement on the window/door tools?

[Christiaan 921]

 

Is it possible to have a statement on why the window/door tools are not on the Roadmap, apart from wall returns? 

 

From the outside it's as if VW doesn't understand the importance of these tools. But that can't be the case.

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/64381-window-and-door-tool-maturity/

 

Perhaps it's that there are other pieces that need to be in place first before changes can happen? If so, why is it taking more than a decade? Or perhaps your own canvassing of customers says windows/doors are not a priority? That would surprise me, but it's a big market.

 

Why is it acceptable, for instance, to continue releasing such an important tool year after year with a sill feature that doesn't do what it's designed to do, let alone what we need it to do? Or a window tool that can't schedule many common window sash types? Or a door tool that can't do a basic element of many buildings: bi-folding sliding doors?

Edited December 5, 2020 by Christiaan

[Matt Panzer 826]

I would say the roadmap is more of a general big picture of where we're headed, but it does not include everything we're planning and working on.  The work being done on walls will require work on the doors and windows in order for them to work together.  That is why that is mentioned in the roadmap along with wall stuff.  These changes must be done before we continue with other planned improvements.  That said, the issues you mention are very important to us and are certainly on the radar.

[Christiaan 921]

Thanks Matt, much appreciated.

[jnr 127]

Hey Christiaan:

 

Can we throw the piece of garbage that is the stair tool on the heaping mound of essential but neglected tools that never gets improved? I just looked at the roadmap. "in development"? Give me a break. It needs to be a priority. Competing CAD software is leaving this company in the dust for such an essential tool. At this rate another 10 years before it ever gets fixed/revamped. Wear me out.

[Christiaan 921]

Well the roadmap for the Stair Tool sounds awesome to me: "Stair Tool: Interactive editing & improved geometry."

 

Disappointing that it's not in the Scheduled section I guess, but there are some pretty big development tasks in that zone at the mo.

[jnr 127]

C --I agree that interactive editing and geometry is ideal, but when? Users have been screaming for years and Vectorworks' Nemetschek sister, Archicad, has had this for what, two years? WTF. As noted, users will take stability, interoperability (its and Autodesk world),  and existing tool improvement over the next Bling.  Year after year of marginalizing three important tools (doors, windows, stairs) for a major part of your user base,  feels like lip service by NNA with no change in course or direction, transparency or not. It's a bad business decision.