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Maurice wrote:maurice
The following features would be desirable
A complete Xref manager dialogue box to ...
- selectively turn on and off layersi don't believe that the x-ref dialogue box is the place for this. i think that keeping all of the layers in one place as they are now is the more logical approach. additionally, when adding x-ref layers to layer combinations for context, etc., they are needed to show in the archiCAD layers dialogue. why duplicate?
- control line colours/line types of layers, even possibly "grey" mode the layers so you know its an xref.this would be quite handy: a BYXREF pen and linetype over-ride situated in the x-ref management dialogue. it wouldn't necessarily lose the attributes of the original file, (i go to a lot of trouble to set up translators with consultants so that their information comes in as they intend and vice-versa), however could be controlled by a display option whereby the x-refs display with the BYXREF over-ride in working views, but could output with intended pen weights . . .
- change position/ scale / rotationposition and rotation can be changed by dragging and/or rotating on plan. access to the original geometric translation (when you first attach an x-ref you can set this), would be handy, but not really necessary IMHO. [aside: i think that hotlinks do this don't they? i haven't used them for a while.] this has to be carefully handled, though, because larger files with many team-mates mean far more people able to tweak, nudge and adjust them! maybe in a teamworked file the teamleader or the person originally inserting them are able to make these movement changes?
- change xref file to another fileyou can now. click the 'browse' button and find the file you want!
- provide clipping of the xref.for key-ing? or actually clip some of the data from the x-ref file for use in archiCAD?
- control display on/offOK, so click the 'unload' button: this effectively removes the file content without completely detaching it from the project. click 'reload' when you want it to come back, or 'detach' if you want to lose it from the project completely. i disagree that a separate visibility on/off is required here. i'll maintain that the layer dialogue is the place for this. duplicating functions into separate parts of the program is only going to lead to trouble!