Hello McNeel Team,
I’m an architect and love Rhino for all sorts of reasons. I have been using it since RH4 and would love to do all my documentation in Rhino, but I have to revert to Revit when projects reach a certain size or complexity. But I want a reason never to open Revit again, and I think it’s getting closer with the RH8 release and Clipping Drawings.
Are you planning to continue to develop this aspect of Rhino? Or is it a low priority?
Having done a lot of documentation using Rhino, I would be happy to talk through all the things that do and don’t work, share working files etc if someone at McNeel is looking into it.
For the Clipping Drawings feature specifically, do you think the following is possible:
- Link original object layer attributes with new ‘Clipping drawing’ layers OR keep the drawings generated on the original object layers
- Alternatively (and preferably), could you create a ‘live’ linework drawing of the model through the ‘detail view’ in paper space (much like Revit) rather than generating a new ‘make 2D’ drawing of the clipping plane. This would just be a new detail view feature that allows you to view the 3D model as linework. Linework attributes would be determine You could then add hatch properties to surfaces and 3D objects etc, like a tile hatch on the srf of the model showing up in the drawing in detail view.
There are a bunch of other aspects, like automatic tags, etc., but there are plenty of workarounds for this, and it is less of a priority than the 3D/2D translation.
PS I previously had a license for VisualARQ but gave up after a number of issues were never updated or addressed with new releases and found Rhino to be better for documentation anyway.
