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+ | ====== Rhino Drafting Tools ====== | ||
+ | > **Summary: | ||
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+ | =====SketchUp layout? | ||
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+ | Maybe base the entire drafting layout system on Google' | ||
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+ | =====Important items===== | ||
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+ | Line types, line weights, dimensions, tolerances, hatching, and fills. (Don Culp) | ||
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+ | =====Print width and color===== | ||
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+ | Wish -- PrintWidths by color (KeithWilkinson, | ||
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+ | =====Dimensions (implemented in V3)===== | ||
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+ | 2D associativity: | ||
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+ | Continuous dimensioning ability to draw (and constrain) all dimension-lines in one axis, without calling the command again and again. (HolgerJahns, | ||
+ | Partitioned? | ||
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+ | Ability to assign different pens weights (or colours if that becomes a plot controlled thing..) to the parts of the dimension - for example lighter leader lines but still with heavy text (again this might not be a major issue as I think text will always be a standard font... ) (KeithWilkinson) | ||
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+ | Different arrowhead options -- personally I hate arrows.. Circles and oblique lines would be good. (KeithWilkinson, | ||
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+ | <color Red> There are dots and slashes as well as a few different arrows in V4</ | ||
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+ | It would be slick if the user could specify any block for this, that way if people are not happy with the standard arrows, they can make their own. ([[people: | ||
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+ | Ability to load / save dim styles. (KeithWilkinson) | ||
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+ | Text justification, | ||
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+ | Ability to set the offset distance of dimension text from the dimension lines globally for a dim style.(< | ||
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+ | <color Red> You can set that now in V4 - Text Gap</ | ||
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+ | Dimension Layers: | ||
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+ | Ability to have arrow heads on Radius dimension leaders. (JoNas) | ||
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+ | Find and replace text. (JoNas) | ||
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+ | Text Curning (to make text wider or taller than default). | ||
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+ | Support for SHX fonts, to get thin text or text by line weight (faster performance too). | ||
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+ | =====Display order control===== | ||
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+ | It would be nice if I could set a custom order for the different types of display modes under //Rhino Options-> | ||
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+ | It would also be good to have an override where you could move objects to top of the display, bottom of the display, above another and below another. This would be viewed that way and printing in that order. AutoCAD calls this DrawOrder control. (Mary Fugier) | ||
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+ | =====Tolerances===== | ||
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+ | This is from DonCulp. Not quite sure yet what this means. | ||
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+ | My understanding of this is that you simply set was ranges the dimension is accurate to - for example your dimension might be 100mm but you can accept the length being +/-2mm - so the displayed dimension would be 100 (+/-2). (KeithWilkinson) | ||
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+ | Another way to use this would be: (The wiki won't allow me to show this correctly but) 98mm on top of 102mm. (Don Lewis) | ||
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+ | =====Hatching / fills===== | ||
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+ | We do not have artistic (gradient) hatches yet. | ||
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+ | I imagine once things like gradients and solid fills start appearing, we are going to need a draw order command so stuff doesn' | ||
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+ | An opacity/ | ||
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+ | Recognition of hatches with more than 300 lines (stone hatches etc.). (JoNas) | ||
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+ | (Undo) command within hatch to undo last hatch if it is not what you wanted because of un-closed boundary geometry. | ||
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+ | There is an unlimited range of hatch patterns. I don't think you could provide them all. Why not make a little window like the design Rhino button to design our own hatch pattern? Of course instead of squares to draw the pixels, I would like to have few options of small, medium, and large layout template to design the hatch pattern. Also able to rotate the template and the custom hatch pattern, then save it to a custom hatch directory that is in my user documents. Does what I am saying makes sense? (Ling) | ||
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+ | =====Layout===== | ||
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+ | To be able to show the same view in different scales and degree of detail on a single sheet. Ergo: It should be possible to switch on and off layers in individual layout windows -- or to hide and show single objects. Great, if this was also reflected in the layer-manager-options (non/ | ||
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+ | In addition to the layer state being able to be on or off in different layout windows, as stated above, it would be fantastic if a user is able to override linetype and weight per layout window. This would come in very handy is if you had a plan and a reflected ceiling plan. Currently you have to copy your plan, change all the layers in that copy to turn it into a reflected ceiling, and then if you update your plan, you have to go back in to your reflected ceiling plan and make the changes there. However this example may be totally inapplicable if the McNeel folk are planning to step away from the Make2D route and rather rely on the display engine with the introduction clipping planes to have hidden line views of the model as the drawing -- if this made any sense at all. ([[people: | ||
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+ | Ablity to snap to geometry inside the layout-window to constrain different views. (HolgerJahns) | ||
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+ | Ablity to create sticky layout configurations inside a Rhino template (with text-blocks, | ||
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+ | Ability to scale viewports to an exact scale will be essential though. (KeithWilkinson) | ||
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+ | =====Printing===== | ||
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+ | I think this is already going to be implemented but just to have it here: The ability to tile a drawing over multiple sheets preferably with registration marks. (Nick Scott) | ||
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+ | Hidden line perspective print. (Tobias) | ||
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+ | Print to PDF with Layer Information, | ||
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+ | Save/Load printing options presets. Much like AdvancedDisplay Save Scheme. (AlexMiller) | ||
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+ | Print all pagelayouts of several 3dm files. (JoNas) | ||
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+ | =====Blocks with attributes===== | ||
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+ | For title block (KeithWilkinson). | ||
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+ | Abilty to define what AutoCAD calls " | ||
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+ | =====Layers===== | ||
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+ | Also addition of an AutoCAD colours selection menu for layer colours. This is useful when it comes to sharing dwg files with other CAD users. Colours 1-9 are generally all that is required. Use of numbers such as 241 can cause a lot of headaches. (KeithWilkinson) | ||
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+ | =====Export===== | ||
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+ | On the subject of exporting, as dwg actually, it would be useful if there was a better way of transferring dims styles. Right now they go a bit ballistic in AutoCAD... :o) (KeithWilkinson) | ||
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+ | What about exporting to Adobe Illustrator? | ||
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+ | =====Xrefs===== | ||
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+ | Any plans for an external referencing system in Rhino 4? (Julian) | ||
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+ | =====Drawing layout===== | ||
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+ | I was just thinking about Rhino’s Make2D tool and realised that the default standards (USA and Europe) are not the ones we use here. If Rhino can show an extra option that asks “Which Picture? Where?”, it would be better and faster. (Otherwise we have to move and rotate the pictures.) | ||
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+ | I changed the 2-D Drawing Options menu in Photoshop. Or you may consider the way SOLIDWORKS or Unigraphics does it. | ||
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+ | Thank you very much for your effort to make your users even more comfortable and faster at modelling. (Rasim İspirgil) | ||
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+ | =====Production friendly drawing layout ideas===== | ||
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+ | With multi-sheet drawings, it would be nice to have a common layer among page layouts so the common portion of the border inserted once appears on all pages. Then the sht 1 portion of the title block, notes, revisions, references, etc. for sheet one is inserted on page 1 only. Then the separate pages need a sheet # of # unique to each sheet, but the drawing number, etc. is only entered once on the common sheet/ | ||
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+ | Can text be underlined using Windows font object techniques? Maybe DXF or dwg coming in could be translated to this, too….. | ||
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+ | A plug-in to export a page layout as a single AutoCAD compatible dwg or DXF, steam-rolled flat would be __very__ useful. The next question immediately will be can it be done at model scale if you know the detail view scaling, instead of paper scale? (Choose Detail to base it on maybe.) This is possible in other MCAD programs and is very useful for manufacturing, | ||
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+ | A block catalog that allows visualization of the blocks to the side of the page layout would be good. It can be done now using the Rhino thumbnail viewer plug-in for Windows and dragging them to the page layout, but it is inconvenient from a production drawing standpoint. | ||
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+ | Can the initial size of the detail views on creation of a page layout be specified somewhere? They start out too big for standard borders to be applied without resizing all four if you are using multiple detail views. Highly inconvenient from a production standpoint…. (Rick Loheed) | ||
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