topic ORIENTED VIEWS AND RECTANGLES. in Modeling

ORIENTED VIEWS AND RECTANGLES.

sedley — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:06:16 GMT

Has anyone noticed that when you rotate a drawing on-screen the tracker gives inaccurate information with rectangular geometry?
Is this a bug?
It's very annoying.
You have to use the rotated rectangle to get the correct reading.

PLEASE FIX THIS.

Re: ORIENTED VIEWS AND RECTANGLES.

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:02:18 GMT

I do not fully understand what you are trying to say.
Could you elaborate more, perhaps also include a screen shot?

Re: ORIENTED VIEWS AND RECTANGLES.

sedley — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:01:46 GMT

Here is a screen shot.
The view is rotated.
Notice the dimensions on the rectangle.
Now look at the tracker information, measuring bottom left to top right.
This should have read 3'x4'.

Re: ORIENTED VIEWS AND RECTANGLES.

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:52:22 GMT

OK, now I get it.
You have rotated the View, then you are trying to create a Slab with the Rectangular Geometry method. This is when the Tracker gives X-Y dimensions according to the Rotated orientation of the Floor Plan and not the normal horizontal-vertical orientation of the screen.
Yes, this looks like a bug to me.
I will report it to Graphisoft.