Can elevations & sections respond to the date & time saved in the view settings.
Currently elevations & sections settings allow the sun to be set by the 3D date & time. The altitude and azimuth (with East being 0˚ - this will be important later) is shown greyed out.
However the elevations don't respond to the date & time saved in the view settings. They will just use the 'current' settings when updated. This makes it very difficult to have several elevations with different sun positions. One option is 3D documents, but then there's additional work to get them to imitate elevations and link to markers etc.
Another option is setting the elevation's sun view point to custom. This means additional elevations need to be setup for different dates, but more importantly, the custom option changes where the azimuth is measured from. The azimuth is now measured with 0˚ being directly behind the elevation.
In the above example, the date and time set results in an azimuth of 141.66˚ shown greyed out and below in red. To set this as custom values in the north elevation (blue) the azimuth needs to be adjusted to be measured from north making it 51.66˚. The same date & time for the west elevation requires the azimuth be adjusted to 321.66˚.
Needless to say, this is very counter-intuitive, confusing and could be solved by allowing Elevations to respond to the Date & Time saved as part of their view.
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