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2018-08-29 05:17 PM
2018-08-30 05:42 AM
indubhushandas wrote:
So this is another feature request, which is very missing in A-cad. I want to drag/drop any picture - I mean start dragging the picture from any point. Do you understand? If I click on the node which is drawn on picture, dragging mode doesn't activate. This is another feature which is missing. I want just press some hotkey like G ("grab" like in Blender, modelling program) to start dragging.
indubhushandas wrote:
Next. I want "transparency" of walls. Why? Because I draw walls over picture, and walls are filled with colors or some patterns, but they are unable to be made "transparent filled". This is very bad, that this feature is absent.
indubhushandas wrote:
Yes, one feature I forgot to tell about. It is "layers grouping". When we use modules, the layers (of one "module of variant N") are kind of grouped into "over-layer". But layers must also have hierarchy. So that we can easily group layers into groups, and quickly hide/show groups of layers. Because when there are many layers, it becomes hard to manage them all.
2018-08-31 09:18 AM
indubhushandas wrote:
Our main architect draws first the sketch on paper. Then it is scanned (maybe in two parts, a4*2, or one a3 paper format), and added as background image on separate layer. Later we have to draw lines over the drawn walls, windows, doors and other objects. Sometimes it becomes a challenge and boring thing to do. Because some features are missing in Archicad to simplify it all. In fact... If I were Archicad developer, I'ld make a separate program, in which architect could make sketches, but which would be then easily added to Archicad program. Because our main architect feel Archicad is too complicated to do all the work directly in archicad. He prefers to draw on paper (as in old good times), and then someone has to "synchronize" that picture on paper into Archicad
indubhushandas wrote:
Also... If you'ld have a feature to draw on touchscreen with a pen - it would be cool! Please add this feature in Archicad! our main architect has "Tablet" PC, Windows with touchscreen and a pen, but we can't use all the power of this hardware in Archicad. What we need is to be able to draw with a pen over Archicad plans, both in 2d and 3d.
What do I mean? Well, in Archicad there must be a feature to draw with a pen (on smart-phones it is a stylus or simply finger-touch) over archicad plan. Why? because for artist, it is easier to draw abstractly from all those walls, doors, windows etc. Main architect uses lines. Just like there is in non-digital world - a pencil, a paper, an eraser. A ruler. Yes, there must be a ruler attached to a "pencil" feature in archicad. say, architect turns on/ activates "pencil" tool, and starts drawing something. So, when he draws a line, there maybe some length of line to be shown - if it's straight, or if it is not straight, then there must be still length of line, but a curved line should be also - vector line. It should be some vector editor, with vectorizer of drawn things on touchscreen.
indubhushandas wrote:
So, to convert paper drawing of house plan into Archicad, we do that in "old fashioned way". If I put a picture into Archicad, turn on transparency, I have to add some "nodes" unto picture. I'll explain now what I mean.
Over the picture I draw some lines, intersections of which, or corners, would be "anchors". Then I group all that with picture. Then I can select a node, and move a picture anyway I want.
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2018-09-01 11:41 AM
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2018-09-03 03:20 AM
indubhushandas wrote:
Now I see only outline/contour of walls. I can set their outward color, and colors of internal lines (which show borders of doors/windows). That's good. But I'ld like to show some half/semi-transparent colors for fills of walls also.
indubhushandas wrote:
And, colors of picture, which is in background often mix with colors of objects in Archicad. I mean if on paper a wall is drawn in black, then in Archicad I also have walls painted in black...