oreopoulos wrote:
This are my top 10 wishes for walls:
Please post your if your list is different
1. Improve wall intersection clean up. In 2D AND 3D. Current Status just waist us too much time trying to clean those lines up.
This has improved significantly over the years and I expect will continue to do so. There is still much room for improvement and this is (obviously) a very important aspect of the program. (Unfortunately it is also very complex from a programming point of view.)
2. 3D hotspots for walls. We should be able to change wall height
This is an excellent idea! and should not be too difficult to implement, I imagine.
3. Different Section and Plan fills
I have never seen the need for this myself, but it seems to be a common wish. Perhaps if I had it I would suddenly realize all the things I could do that I hadn't thought of before. What do you need it for?
4. When two walls are collinear then there should be a join command to make them as one. (The inverse of a split command)
Another good one. It also seems as though it should be easy enough to accomplish.
5. Adding a second type of wall movement. Till now moving a wall does not affects walls intersected with it and the wall retains its length. That is ok but another kind of wall move should be added. If we move a wall ALL other walls connected to the wall should extend (or shorten) to fall the wall. Its like they are glued to the wall and they fall the walls movement. That would save TONS of time especially when we are making changes to the plans.
This would be GREAT, assuming it is optional and doesn't affect performance adversely. It also seems like a way to start selectively adopting the best of Revit without burdening the model with too many relationships to keep track of.
6. Corner Node points (wall intersections) should behave like a moveable hotspot. This is almost a logical follow up of the previous wish
This is already true if all the affected walls are selected. I'm not sure that this needs any improvement.
7. The wall should show up in selected stories (not only in current)
Is there anyone who
doesn't
want this? (I doubt it.) We will also need some easy way to see what story elements are on (home story). This is already difficult with the floors and roofs sometimes. A simple read only field in the info palette would suffice for now.
8. The wall could have vertical zones of materials. So like wish 3 we have to define a stack of fills for section drawing and a stack of textures.
This would be cool, but not on the top of my list. It is part of the holy grail of never having to stack and sandwich walls to accomplish things that are presently beyond the scope of the tool.
9. Walls should follow story height (of the user wants so)
I would prefer that the walls can be told to extend up and/or down to the nearest floors and/or roofs. (speedikon had this capability when I worked on it back in 1997)
10. Last but not least. Free form walls. This could be done by graphically editing the inner and outer lines of the wall AND defining a wall profile.
This is also a high priority (particularly looking at the feedback here) but it does have some potential to seriously complicate #1. And there is also the issue of doors and windows in these complex wall structures.
