Detail Balloon
Something that I'd like to see Bricscad incorporate in the future is a detail balloon. I'm notreferring to balloons for b.o.m. purposes but for detailing sections of a drawing at a differentscale. Many moons ago I worked for a company that used a cad program that ran on unixor solaris operating system and it had the capability where you could insert a circle at aparticular area of the drawing and from that circle create a detail at a scale of your choice.Can't remember the name of the cad program (Graftek I think) but it was ahead of it's timeand more robust than what Autodesk was putting out (Autocad Release 10 I believe).Perhaps in the future Brics might consider adding this - have no idea how much programmingit would take.
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Genius 14 had this I remember (in AutoCAD).How about using Paper Space viewports for this?You can make a sircular viwport with another scale than the main one, and you can turn on and off layers in the different viewports.
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Guess I'm old school as far as paper space is concerned. But you're probably right, that may be themodern way to do it. Perhaps someone can recommend a tutorial or two on this to get my feet wet.
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Please read "Paperspace Viewports" under User Guide > Viewing your drawing in the Bricscad Help to learn more about viewports in paperspace. Please notice that, when you select a non-rectangular viewport both the viewport and the clipping entity (closed polyline or circle) are selected. To see the properties of the viewport you need to choose 'Viewport' in the Entity Types listbox on top of the Properties Bar.
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Along this note... I wonder if annotative scales are a feature in the works?Thanks
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Annotative objects like texts, dimensions, leaders, hatches, and the annotative styles that go with them, as well as the required editors (yes, its a lot...)are on our personal wishlist too. We plan to work on this in the coming year.
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Hmmmm... yes, I thought there must be a great deal of code required to support these annotative objects.I think Bricsys is doing a great job at climbing this mountain of providing us with features. Of course we want it all and want it now and want it for a low price! ;-) I think the progression of features is well designed.
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