[image] Rhino 8 Feature: PushPull Workflow Rhino is good at schematic design and design development but not the rest, due to many reasons. It can’t handle linework, unlike AutoCAD. Features aren’t intuitive to use. (Make2D…ugh…) I saw this in the very long Push Pull thread, so I am moving it…

[image] Mich Platter: I dont quite understand how the Boundary option works. Run Hatch, set Boundary=Yes. Then start selecting your curves. Click inside the areas you want to hatch until the preview is how you like and Enter to finish. [image] 2023-03-09_18-15-31 World's leadin…

Thanks, but whats the difference to when Boundary is set to No? I get the same result… What i meant in my first post is that in Autocad you dont have to select anything at all, just click inside et voila.

[image] Wim Dekeyser: What happens when you select multiple curves? What happens when you select an open curve? What happens when you select multiple curves and some of them are open while others are closed? What happens when you sub-object select a segment of a curve? What happens when you sub-…

[image] Eugen: +1 for having length, area and volume displayed in params! In ACAD, when a closed polyline is selected, the area param shows up: [image] But when a closed and an open polyline are selected, no area param shows up at all. Kinda stupid. Please do it better. [image] I would …

Making Rhino more laggy obviously isnt an option. Another idea would be to make it possible to extend the properties panel via a plugin. So people who want that could load such a plugin and display additional info. Dont know if its possible already.

Hi @mich.platter , Would you accept the solution Eugen proposed? That you have a command instead, and after running a command, additional info will be shown in Rhino’s command bar.

This is a valid feature request. It would be our job to get it to work without slowing the system down. I wouldn’t block the request based on the idea that it may impact performance.

Good example for multithreading, no? If there are some cores to spare, fine, calculate the area etc., but let’s not wait for it.

I could imagine something like a fly out tab, which you can open when needed and then it remains active also on new selected objects. it could display all kind of statistical data that could be helpful for a given object. (length,area,volume,face count, etc…) Probably only useful for single object …

I would like to add 2 more points to the OPs original post wrt to drawing architectural 2D plans in Rhino vs. AutoCAD - which i would define as drawing 2D polylines, hatches, text and annotations objects such as dimensions. First is the text-editor, which is really basic in Rhino compared to Autoca…

Can’t handle linework like AutoCAD

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RH-29232 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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Can’t handle linework like AutoCAD

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