3D Cutting planes - zooming & snapping

I can't imagine anybody voting for a 4-year-old wish.

Well, if you vote for something old it will bring it to the present and maybe shame GS in doing something about it.

If you have to choose to do one of 2 things which will you choose?

1. the one that you have not finished/fixed for the last 4 years
or
2. the brand new one that only 2 people have voted for…

just an opinion.

See new post

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=139944#139944

This still hasn't been fixed.

OK, I just went and voted for the old one.

There's a good reason this a moribund wish, since it has been granted, in a way. I haven't used the cutting planes except as a practical joke for a long time. [That is where you make a guy's project disappear during his smoke break by creating and activating a cutting plane aimed away from the building. Haha. Who would think that, eh ???? Almost as good a joke as silicone spray on the jerk's oak desk chair or a raw pork chop left in that stinky smoker's filing cabinet on Friday night]

Current tools do this task nicely:

-- Make a Special Wireframe Layer : "3D Cutter"
-- Make a slab in that layer larger than your structure.

-- SEO the model using upward or downward extrusions to slice away what you don't want.

-- make the slab edges white so they don't print if they were to appear in the view.

-- It is dynamic in the 3D window so yank it where you want OR set the parameters in the Slab dialog.

Viola. No more cutting planes.

Or "Use Section Tool in 3D"" from the Special Menu. Upper and lower altitude constraints constrain the cut.....

Well, since there were replies in the new thread/poll, I merged it with this one so that voting/content will not get split. So - anyone who had voted in the other poll- if you see voting buttons above, please vote again. (It means that you never voted in this original poll.)

Hi Dwight: I disagree. The 3D Cutting Planes dialog is more powerful than a mere cutting slab. An arbitrary number of slabs and roofs is more powerful then 3D Cutting Planes, but much more work....and more important, the results are not memorized with views, unless you want to get really crazy with layers.

One can have many arbitrarily angled cut planes in a variety of orientations and all of these planes - as well as the marquee - are memorized with a 3D view. This view-association is essential to being able to trim down to just the essential part of a model for creating a 3D Document detail ... and all of the historic uses.

As people have said over the years - snapping, zooming, a resizeable dialog - all are long-needed features for an interface that has not changed in more than 10 years.

Cheers,
Karl

s2art wrote:

Only if you vote AND reply. It's the reply that brings it to the top.

or NOT vote and reply...

Karl wrote:
As people have said over the years - snapping, zooming, a resizeable dialog - all are long-needed features for an interface that has not changed in more than 10 years.

The dialog is resizable (from some versions back). But I remember in the past the diagrams were in some way zoomable, as they were based on the last 3D windows content. Now, if I'm correct, they show always the whole project.

rocorona wrote:
The dialog is resizable (from some versions back).

Thanks, Roberto! I never noticed that it became resizable...just assumed it was as it always was.

Karl