Hi, I’m a long-time user since V4 and absolutely love Rhino. In my field of architecture, it is an amazing tool for designing and visualizing ideas. Yet very few people use it as a main Program for producing plans and drawings, the workflow is always relying on programs like archicad, vectorworks, …

I know layer set can be applied to individual layout and detail, but I would not go back and forth between model space and layout space. BricsCAD BIM exactly works like that. If you create section, it is exported to a layout automatically. However, you can not but check layout very often because man…

Ah yes: It would be desirable to mix layouts and model space viewports. Now, they are mutually exclusive. Since layouts can reside in floating windows, I can’t see the strong technical reason why regular viewports cannot be switched to any layout. Test (using Asuni’s Villa Savoye model): [image…

It feels as though a st section should be a single object that can be moved to wherever we want it (model or layout), scaled as we see fit, updated when required (and before plotting), and have a set of properties that define rules for lineweight, hatch, etc… This would be so versatile and useful…an…

Exactly. Story: VisualArq section/plan views are, as mentioned, dynamic blocks, with parameters (e.g. which level should the plan view show). I had a similar debate with them some time ago, because it turned out that it is already possible to put their dynamic section blocks on layouts (using Chan…

[image] Eugen: I had a similar debate with them some time ago, because it turned out that it is already possible to put their dynamic section blocks on layouts (using ChangeSpace), and dyn. update would still work. They agreed to implement this. Does that now work in VA? Can you export same …

[image] Macuso: BOM, BOM, BOM. I do badly need BOM support in Rhino. This won’t be in Rhino 8, but it is on the list for the future. Table objects require an entirely new object type in Rhino which is a large project to implement.

I was thinking on BOM recently. And I’m curious, on which proprty of an object BOM should be built? Some plugin rely on block attributes, but not all the objects are blocks. To base on AttributeUserText? But during modeling you may loose them (adding new surfaces to polysurf, exploding and rejoin…

[image] MattE: Does that now work in VA? Can you export same from the layouts in DXF/DWG with WYSIWYG functionality, so that the DWG will look like the PDF equivalent? Not yet, no. They set up a roadmap page, which states DWG export from layouts: in progress. That’s all anybody knows on the …

[image] Rajaa Issa: [image] Eugen: Please add an auto-update feature (as an option). The auto update happens in all the cases when the section or its properties is changed., but still needs triggering the update command when objects are added, deleted, or some properties changes. The main…

[image] Eugen: use the bloody thing as intended - as the dedicated 2d environment. We can already draw in layouts in 2D (and 3D object too if you desire). Don’t even need changespace command, copy and paste works fine. That’s why it doesn’t feel wildly out of reach to implement a better draft…

Layout & Drafting: What's the plan?

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Layout & Drafting: What's the plan?

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