Friday, 30 November 2012

Autocad: Names of viewport sets

All right, I know this is kinda small thing, but it's telling something about, how poor the design of some details in these programs can be. I'm talking about the viewport configurations names in Autocad.

There's names like "Two: Vertical" and "Four: Equal" and those are pretty straight forward. They look like this:

But then there's these: "Three: Left", "Three: Right", "Four: Left" and "Four: Right". They look like this:
Seriously, where's the logic?? How hard can it be?
And I'm not even going to rant about the "feature" that you can't change the sizes of those viewports.

Revit: Grey filled regions

Even though a filled regions' colour is set as black in the properties, revit sometimes colours it grey depending on the view scale and the density of the pattern. This should not happen.


Revit: Dots in line patterns

A dot in a line pattern should be drawn as a dot with a diameter of the linewidth and not a 1.5pt long dash.

Revit: Vector shadows

It should be possible to print views with shading and/or shadows as vectors.

Rasterized prints from Revit are not of a very good quality. The user has for example no control over dpi-settings and thus prints are not good enough quality for post-processing.

Revit: Snap to section lines

It would be nice if it was possible to snap to section (and elevation) lines.

This is a problem because it is not possible to rotate or move a section line to be perpendicular to a model object. Also it prevents a user from creating a section exactly at a specific location (eg. property or grid line) after it has been created.

Note: when drawing the section line it snaps to reference planes, but this relation is lost after the section is moved or the reference plane deleted.