Thanks for the effort on this new feature.
I tested this new feature in VA3, but I think some revisions are needed to make it more practical for use.
A gap is needed between the bubble and the end of the grid lines. Without this gap, it is impossible to place dimensions. While Level 2 dimensions might be acceptable, Level 1 dimensions become unreadable if the grid lines extend continuously from bubble to bubble.
Bubbles, annotations, and grid lines should be created on separate layers so that different attributes can be assigned to them. Grid lines should be thin to avoid interfering with architectural drawings, while bubbles should be thick enough to be easily identifiable. In addition, grid lines need to be hidden sometimes for practical reasons.
Gird lines are snapped in floor plan view, but they are not in section and elevation. It looks like they are only visually displayed in sections and elevations, rather than existing as actual objects, right? If they are not spanned in section and elevation, you can’t place dimension.
The guide makes it very easy to control the location of walls. I think it would be useful to add an option to make guides visible only on the initial construction plane, which refers to the level where objects were originally placed. This is different from “On CPlane’s elevation.”
The key point is to use the guide as a tool to simplify wall control. To achieve this, bubbles should be able to be hidden at both ends of the grid lines.
One more thing!
This applies not only to the Guide Feature but also to all Annotations. How can the scale be adjusted? The same view can be used for drawings at different scales. For instance, a floor plan can be used for a 1/100 scale general floor plan and a 1/50 scale enlarged floor plan. However, if the annotation is created in model space, it can’t be used for both, because annotations in Rhino cannot be adjusted by layout scale.
I’m curious about the plans the VA development team has to solve this problem.
Thanks.
Hi @Steven_Kim thank you for your valuable feedback about Guides.
We will consider adding a parameter to create a gap between the label and the line
You are right, we need to find a way to control the attributes of the label, the line and the text, independently. This issue also happens to other documentation tools, like the Tag object, or the space label.
True, guides should be snappable also in elevation views
Do you mean that these guides would be just visible when you have the CPlane in the same position where guides were created? Would they be visible in Elevation views? wouldn’t it be a mess with the other guides that are dynamically displayed on the current floor?
Also, guide styles have a parameter to choose the location of the labels. Are you asking for a new option to hide the labels in both edges? If you don’t give any name to the guide, the label hides.
This issue should be handled by the Rhino annotation style parameter “Enable Layout Space Scaling”, but VisualARQ objects are not working well with it. That’s a current limitation that needs to be fixed.
They are not visible in elevation and I’m not talking about dynamic display. My ideas is to use guide feature as a tool to control and modify wall position on floor plan view easily. It’s not easy to draw walls in VA for now, because you can’t know where the base curves for walls are located quickly so you can’t where the snap points of walls are located. It’s also very easy to stretch walls with guide feature. If you want to stretch walls in VA now, you have to move 3 walls separately. Maybe I should not call this guide. This is about wall center lines or wall construction lines, actually.
Yes. Because this is about wall construction, the guide doesn’t need bubble.
