kevin.bell.72378
2008-03-10, 04:40 PM
Description: Cut planes which can be easily changed and set up
How Used: Rather than setting the cut plane in the display configuration it would be great to be able to have a cut plane tool which allows the user to select areas of the drawing and set its cut plane.
It see this rather like the plot command and how the user pick a window to plot. So a user would select areas of the drawing and set their cut plane, this would also allow multiple cut planes in one display config.
Feature Affinity: Cut planes
Example:
For instance, I have just completed a large project which had a site with about 20 buildings (some were duplicates though), the main building was a terrace of about 8 buildings, the terrace was on a sloping site do broadly each building was 1 metre lower than the other.
The nightmare thing was setting the cut planes of the buildings and teaching everyone hwo to use them - so that the view drawing would show all of the buildings in the terrace together at the correct cut height (1.4m above floor level of each building).
I had to set up the display config cut plane for Ground floor, first floor, stair construct etc etc.
Took ages...
How Used: Rather than setting the cut plane in the display configuration it would be great to be able to have a cut plane tool which allows the user to select areas of the drawing and set its cut plane.
It see this rather like the plot command and how the user pick a window to plot. So a user would select areas of the drawing and set their cut plane, this would also allow multiple cut planes in one display config.
Feature Affinity: Cut planes
Example:
For instance, I have just completed a large project which had a site with about 20 buildings (some were duplicates though), the main building was a terrace of about 8 buildings, the terrace was on a sloping site do broadly each building was 1 metre lower than the other.
The nightmare thing was setting the cut planes of the buildings and teaching everyone hwo to use them - so that the view drawing would show all of the buildings in the terrace together at the correct cut height (1.4m above floor level of each building).
I had to set up the display config cut plane for Ground floor, first floor, stair construct etc etc.
Took ages...