Unify (and improve) the Slab and Roof Tools

[Angel Berruezo]

Right now, we have two different tools for modelling floors and roofs. Everything works fine as long as the floor is completely flat and horizontal, and the roof is simple and regular — which, obviously, isn’t always the case. Here is my proposal: one unified tool for everything. This tool should be able to:

- Work with composite structures, allowing each layer to have either variable or constant thickness.

- Allow us to freely rotate objects in any section and in any direction, just as we do with Morphs (how this is still not possible is beyond my understanding).

- Provide the possibility to add ridges, similar to how we do with Meshes, and to edit Z-coordinates to create complex geometries, as is often needed for flat or irregular roofs.

By doing this, we could specialize the Mesh tool exclusively for terrain modeling, which is something we are clearly lacking at the moment.

[talmacsi_petrolterv]

And also the doors & windows (and probably the possibility to place standalone/non_wall_attached doors/windows), sections & elevations, details & worksheets. Probably the beams & walls, too.

[Barry Kelly]

@talmacsi_petrolterv ,

Please make separate wishes for these items.

This wish is only for the unification of slab and roof tools.

Wishes for other topics requires a separate wish for each topic.

Barry.

[karsten_bauschert]

A unified slab/roof tool should bring features like:

1. adding sloping to slab = replacing roof   -> easy to accomplish?
   composit layers, parallel top / bottom 
2. different sloping on top / bottom
   need for defining parallel / increasing layers (flat roof = constant core, increasing isolation..)
   useful also for underground parking areas under buildings where floor / ceiling is often sloped differently on top/bottom 
3. defining by slope angle vs. altering z-values of points?
   i prefare using angles as they are more practical if planning according to regulations
   altering z-values = mesh, more flexible but very cumbersom
4. adding ramp functionality to advanced slab tool
   a curved ramp with sloping in 2 directions is missing in AC for many versions
   but desired for most projects in our office
   so far an external GDL object (A-Null) fills this gap.