allow dimensions to be edited
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#473 allow dimensions to be edited
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2023-09-24
2012-01-07
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I have read the post at http://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,1021 and very much agree with the OP. It is next to impossible to build an accurate floorplan with this tool, good though it is in other ways. Surely this can be improved without sacrificing the excellent ease of use and 3d view?
Anyhow my suggestion, that would help a great deal at minimum effort is this - make dimensions editable. In other words, on double-click a dialogue box should open, as with other objects, allowing the user to manually enter a size. (This may also imply giving dimensions a direction like walls to allow control of which end moves). As dimensions do not anchor to objects I don't see why this enhancement can't be done very easily and without disrupting anything.
Thank you
Richard
During the last 5 years, nobody proposed a precise and easy way to draw
walls from their border line instead of their center line, in a software
like Sweet Home 3D where you can draw more than one room. If you have only
one room, the solution was found: draw the room first with the Room
creation tool, then double click in the room with Wall creation tool to
create the walls surrounding the room.
Anyway, I will probably soon allow the length of dimension lines to be
manually edited.
Meanwhile, if you find that the value of a dimension line is too approximative,
just zoom in before resizing the dimension line to get more decimals.
Forgot to mention that you can enter the size of a dimension line by pressing the <enter> key when you draw it. This will make the dimension tooltip editable.
Hi Emmanuel
Thank you for your response, and the speed of it.
First of all I am sorry if I offended you or anyone else, that was not my intention.
And I think SH3D is a great piece of software - especially at the price :-) I love the ease of use and the 3D visualisations are excellent and genuinely useful. It's great to see a building come to life as one draws it, and be able to navigate round it! SH3D has some great features and a few things that still a bit of ironing out, as one would expect. I first tried SH some years ago and it seems to have come on tremendously since then - clearly a lot of people like yourself have been doing some great work on it.
I do think many people will want to use SH3D in this way, though, to use SH3D to create floor plans and designs of proposed structures and existing ones where no floorplan currently exists. And it is frustrating when one can't do what one wants!
Many thanks for your tips - in particular the one about hitting enter during entry will be a very useful workround for me and will help me greatly in creating plans.
Thanks again
Richard
Just to let you know that I have been using your tips for real and they made the process of entering a new floor plan massively faster - what before was very very difficult to do is now very easy.
The process I had envisaged to create a floorplan was to create dimensions corresponding to the real life measurements; and then to simply line up the features - walls, doors, windows, etc - to the dimensions. With a little zooming in and out this can be done to a good accuracy. I find using the arrow keys to nudge selected objects is a fast way to make these adjustments.
It is now a very quick and smooth process. Your tips have made this work - it just can't be done quickly without being able to enter a dimension measurement directly - and this method works even better than I had expected - thank you very much for your help.
In version 4.5 you can manually edit the dimensions of the compass, it would be good if you could edit in the same way the dimensions of other objects like walls, dimensions, windows, doors etc.
A new modification dialog box for dimensions was added to version 7.2.