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| Posted by ShaneH at Mar 18, 2021, 12:34:55 PM |
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2D view, and some annoyances 3D is nice an all, but at the end of the day the contractor can't use any of it. He will be polite and take your "layout", while thinking he would like to strangle you. He will go to his office and place that "layout" in file 13, and in about a week or two with come back with something he hand drew on an graphing paper that you can't recognize. And so begins a "stressful" relationship with your very qualified and capable contractor. Two VERY simple things would change all this. First, is simple shapes; rectangle, ellipse, and triangle. And when you double click them you can change their dimensions, and add visible text (similar to walls and doors). And yes I know about poly lines ... mostly useless. Second, make it so I can import an image (maybe even supporting PNG and GIF transparency), and use it in those simple shapes. A simple 2D image I drew in GIMP is far better than some of the stuff you have now. Look at garage doors and windows, you see a box with some other unrecognizable object inside of it, that image is useless to a contractor, or even myself. While designing the layout I saw one of them and did know what it was. Also a note on the way you set dimensions, it is very strange. Take a wall for example, if you set a start point and an end point on the vertical plain on the horizontal plain you have to set the center point, twice. Also if you need a space to be, let say, 12 feet and you have 6 inch walls you will end up with only 11.5 feet, and its a pain to "adjust". And what is up with the fractions, entirely useless, unless the idea was to have them in the way all the time. Maybe half inch would be useful on a rare occasions and once in blue moon maybe quarter inch would have a use, but decimals (0.25, 0.5, 0.75) would be far easier and MUCH less annoying. |
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