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snapping options - end/middle vertices visually different


yasin2ray

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11 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:

Agreed! This reminded me of a post I made EIGHT years ago...

 

 

Wow, 8 years ago! I asked for this a few years ago but not through the forum. It really would help me a ton when I'm reshaping a plant group to align to a specific edge. It easy to grab a midpoint thinking it's the next end point.

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Hi,

 

big YES to this suggestion!

I wrote such suggestions years ago to the German support.

 

I would prefer different colors for end and mid-points. 

 

/ / / 

 

I would think a little further and have options make points permanently visible

(not only in edit-mode). … so you can easily check the complexity of all object

in the workingspace.

 

/ / / 

 

Sketchup offers a solution to show "line-color by axis-color".

off-axis = black line color, the rest use axis-color!

 … so you can easily check if you draw orthogonal to the actual axis or not!

 This please, please, please too for 2D and 3D!

 

Greetings

Tobi

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7 hours ago, Tobias Kern said:

...I would think a little further and have options make points permanently visible...

I'm a landscape designer not an architect so when I'm laying out building walls it's almost as-builts.

I tend to put a point at the beginning and end of notable 'points of interest' (windows and doors, wall height changes, wall material change, etc).

It's always a bit hard "trusting VW to snap to these points when I can't SEE them... If I could make them visible when needed that would help so much.

 

And  @yasin2ray either color coded, or circles and squares, or both!  would make drawing and editing shapes so much cleaner, great wish.

Take my up vote!

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And also when working in 3d - the snap points are tiny, slightly different symbols and very difficult to see.

 

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You can get them to highlight with the little red squares for a short time, but then there's no distinction between end or mid or any kind of points.

 

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Ideally surely there'd be consistent language of snap point indicators regardless of what kind of mode or view you are working in.

 

 

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Hi & greetings,

 

@hollister design Studio

 

Yes, thats what i mean, a option (on / off)  to make them permanent visible if you need it.

If you don't need them permanently, turn this option off.

With points on, you can do easy checks of the complexity of a geometry (2D or 3D).

 

I use such a feature in Sketchup (Endpoints on) and i like it much.

SKP can only show the endpoints permanently. You can choose

what size these points have, but you can't choose the color or shape of the points.

 

For my needs in VW, the endpoints would be enough.

 

@line-weight

 

Yes, the points are often too small to see. I want them a little bigger.

Some parts of the UI doesn't scale well and if you use high-res displays (Apple 5K Displays),

seeing them would even more difficult.

 

It would be so easy to make it better:

 

3 modes with different sizes to choose from

Endpoints red squares

Midpoints blue squares

other points green squares

… or whatever

 

… or same color but different shapes (triangles, circles, …)

… or different color and different shapes

 

Greetings from Germany

Tobi

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