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| Posted by hansmex at Jan 4, 2011, 11:35:38 PM |
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Re: Can't get dimension lines to work Thierry, Although I'm not the software developer of SH3D, I take the liberty of giving an answer. My guess is that the functionality you seek will never be implemented in SH3D, nor in any other 3D software program. Yes, it's possible to reconstruct a room exactly from 6 measurements: the four sides, and two diagonals. And if all rooms in a given house were square or rectangular, you could even reconstruct every room in a house. It would be far more difficult to correctly re-construct L-shaped or Z-shaped rooms, rooms with round walls, etc. And we haven't even talked about wall thickness, something you cannot measure as easily as wall length. SH3D is written as a tool to make a 2D drawing of a room and visualize how its interior would look in 3D. Ease of use is the key here, and I'm glad the developer, Emmanuel Puybaret, fiercely defends that point of view, and makes it his guiding principle in every decision he makes when programming a new feature. If you need a 100% correct and reliable plan of your house, you will need to invest some time to figure out how to do it. Wall thickness is the key element that makes it a bit difficult. I've helped people in the past, and will continue to help in the future. Another way of finding out whether or not SH3D is useful to you, is trying out demo versions of commercially available programs. It's something I have done extensively, and although some programs offered far more features than SH3D, no paid program that I have used offered the same ease of use. Of course SH3D is open source, so feel free to use its programming code to modify the program to suit your needs. Hans ---------------------------------------- Hans new website - under constuction hansdirkse.info |
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