V6: Layout Wishlist

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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Hello

here is my wishlist, which currently is mostly focused on the draughting/layout side of things:

  1. Hatches that have a line pattern and also a solid background colour, much like in Vectorworks

  2. Viewports that have a shape other than a rectangle/square (ie a circle, polygon, or something drawn with the polyline tool)

  3. Is it possible to make a display mode option that create a fill in an apparent closed object? I.E., if the area where the clipping plane is cutting through an object would form a closed polyline if you sectioned through it, this would appear as a fill.

  4. A command to select objects/lines by line weight

  5. An option in the properties dialogue to dictate a hatch pattern for a layer

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  1. Currently this can be achieved by using Solid hatch with background print color and any other hatch on top of it.

  2. This would be useful.

  3. You can use SECTION command to do it right now. Auto-hatching the fill on clipped closed objects would be my dream come true though.

  4. That might be useful.

  5. If auto-hatching the fill was a thing, I see this being super useful. As in Walls layer could have one hatch (like Hatch1) when clipped and floors another (like concrete and such). Also, it would be better if that hatch wasn’t a physical object you can modify, so it doesn’t clog the model. And an option of it being shown only in details would be fantastic.

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Hi Asterisk

  1. Yes, this is what I currently do, but its a bit tiresome, and also stressful when you have to get a drawing issued quickly!

  2. Yup, I do this too…the new CHANGESPACE command is amazing getting these sections into Layout space from model space quickly

  3. great ideas all round!