[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] 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…

What I miss more from AutoCAD is complex linetype support (shp). Rhino support only continuous or dashed linetypes. They are good for modeling but not enough for drafting. About length and area in the properties panel, I used to use the bubble plugin from assuni for that. Unfortunately, they stoppe…

[image] Ar00302: Unfortunately, they stopped the plugin a month. What do you mean?

They stopped the development of the plugin one month ago. We are not able to use it anymore. It was very useful.

Can’t handle linework like AutoCAD

Serengeti (Rhino BETA)

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RH-96188 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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Can’t handle linework like AutoCAD

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