Suggestions to improve Layout
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@otb designworks said:
...I am paranoid that a dim will change when I move it and I won't notice.
That's why I do all my dimensioning in Sketchup. 'Smart' is a potential disaster for anyone who's responsible for the measurements in construction drawings.
Smart dimensions are nice but only when adding the dimensions. After that I want them as dumb as a doorknob - until I tell a particular dimension line to update. -
@kaas said:
@otb designworks said:
...I am paranoid that a dim will change when I move it and I won't notice.
That's why I do all my dimensioning in Sketchup. Potential disaster for anyone who's responsible for the measurements in construction drawings.
Smart dimensions are nice but only when adding the dimensions. After that I want them as dumb as a doorknob - until I tell a particular dimension line to update.Second that. In my CAD package it is pretty simple. Still if I change the scale (say for a different part of the file) and make certain adjustments to a line of dimensions, it can trigger an update to the wrong dimension. Caught me sometimes when I didn't see it change. Just really bad news.
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third that... just had an entire set come off as 1/8inch instead of 3/16. Good thing the builder caught it.
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Going to quote myself here because this behavior really could use a fix in Windows.
@kaas said:
If I zoom to some portion of my paper in Layout, switch (click or alt-tab) to another program and switch back to Layout (alt-tab or click), it reverted to zoom all. Would prefer if Layout wouldn't change zoom. New feature in 2014?
Also, I use a pen tablet in Layout (as well as in Sketchup). Annoying part is, when I draw (or edit) a line and want to zoom out to another point, pressing the shortcut key for zoom breaks the line command while in Sketchup pressing <esc> after shortcut-zooming picks up the line command again. Please make layout behave the same!
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The ability to scale a object when bringing it into the drawings from scrapbooks would be an AWESOME feature. eg from 1:1 to say 1:10. This would make all the difference to those using details in their projects which require working construction drawings to be to scale.
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- A follow me tool like sketchup
- An Offset tool like sketchup!
These would allow you to draw walls in layout quicker (if required ofcourse)
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@marcdurant said:
Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. I actually started hacking around on #10 while riding the bus up to BaseCamp on Monday. It's something I've been wanting to do for about a year but haven't managed to fit it in yet. #2 and #9 are also on my personal list.
I'd love to be able to report back that we're addressing every item, but understand that your list represents about a release's worth of effort. Multiply that by every wish-list out there (granted, there's some overlap) and I'll be busy until I retire. Which isn't a bad thing, but does explain why there are a lot of disappointed wish-listers out there.
Marc! What happened!? A brand new layout and not even one of my list of suggestions was addressed!?
I have to admit that that is pretty disappointing.
To be perfectly honest, the entire layout 15 update was pretty anemic, in my opinion, though I do love the 2 segment text tool; that is a nice touch.
I read through my list and pretty much everything I wrote then is still a valid suggestion and it would sure make my day if we started to get some developer traction on them.
Help, Marc, help!!!
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@frederik said:
I'm sure the LayOut team won't forget you/us...
However, please remember that there's app. a year until next release...
I wouldn't expect much of these feature requests to make it into a possible maintenance release before SU2015...
Guess we shouldn't have expected them at all...
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It would also be really very helpful if we could import DWG/DXF files
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@otb designworks said:
Guess we shouldn't have expected them at all...
To some extend I can agree, that it's a little disappointing that so few feature requests have made it so far...
I assume that it's primary caused by the migration to 64-bit, which I acknowledge have been a huge task...!I do hope that now where these things are in place, they have the time to work on the feature requests in the future...
@otb designworks said:
It would also be really very helpful if we could import DWG/DXF files
No need to double-post...
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