owen wrote:Please, Please, Someone from GS... say something about it.sdb wrote:no GUI is a big turn-off for most people - particularly architects. I like a bit of math and always found figuring out an efficient way to do things in GDL interesting, but sometimes people just want to make something relatively simple and make it quickly. GDL isn't exactly good for this.
Most Architect's are more visual thinkers, so to expect them to suddenly want (or even be remotely interested) to write some code is a big ask. So they have to get people like me (& many others) to build content for them. Which users don't really like to pay for & i agree they shouldn't really have to.
Families sound like they are much easier to get into at the expense of being not as powerful as GDL - however i think this is really just a result of execution of the Families system and not an intrinsic problem of creating a GUI for object coding.
Anyway .. it seems GS has no intention of improving GDL but is moving towards system-based tools such as the Curtain Wall. On reflection I'm beginning to agree with the arguments people have made for this approach, but i still think they need to be customizable via GDL .. and in a user-friendly way. A simple example would be the Complex Profile manager .. how hard would it have been to write the Profile Manager to save those Fill-based drawings of profiles as tiny GDL scripts which could then be called upon by other scripts - rather than 'dumb' project attributes? I think that would have been very, very useful - being able to call parametric profiles into walls, beams, curtain wall elements etc. That would be a graphical GDL editor at its most basic level.
As for people not having to pay for ANY 3rd party content i don't think that is realistic (nor desirable from both our perspectives i am sure) - GS cannot account for everyones needs but basic stuff like a working D&W builder, stairs etc
shouldbe part of the AC core. A decent object library should also be part of AC - perhaps GS could license the best 3rd party content available for inclusion with each new release. This would actually be a pretty good incentive for content creators to come up with good objects if they knew there was a chance GS would license them for worldwide distribution.
We, the users, the average user (>70%). We claim to know what is the trend AC will follow.
This could be the most important issue on the architectural BIM software market today.
MEP is good but tricky, VBE is great, ECO-Designer sounds like a good idea, but expanding the platform is not everything.
As an average user, I would like to see an easy to use GDL visual application (included in AC), than a new GS Structure-Design software.
Best Regards
Nando
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...means if you can program well, you can have a career in any field you want
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