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erikmar
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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 Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: Schaeffer and referencing |
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I've been advocating (pleading for?) PowerCADD referencing to be brought as close as possible to parity with that of the industry standard, AutoCAD, for several years now. There are a few preconditions for this to happen. All of the preconditions would be welcome additions in their own right, and would also act to bring PC into parity with the rest of the industry in those areas.
First, a rotatable coordinate system. In AutoCAD, this is called the UCS. Imagine a typical multifamily housing project, where the same unit plan might be repeated in multiple orientations throughout the project, and it will be self-evident why this is required.
Second, model space. In order to allow for precise placement of referenced files, there has to be a way to coordinate and control origin points across several files. Surveyors and civil engineers use AutoCAD's implementation of this all the time. I suspect model space may also be useful for controlling the differences in scale of referenced files, but maybe there's a way around this in a paperspace only application.
Neither of these changes would in any way impact PC's primary advantage over AutoCAD, namely the intuitive and elegant implementation of its drawing tools. Rather, they would improve the program where it's weak, and they would make PC once again a viable alternative for the many project types where repetition is an unavoidable evil. |
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