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Could we please get support for more than 4 lines in Smart Walls? If I had more lines available I could set the line types for some of the inner lines to be things like blockhatch or brickhatch or woodhatch or something like that. This would reduce or possibly eliminate the need for being able to hatch the walls the conventional way. I would like to have at least 6 lines available. 10 would be better.

I'll second this.

I agree too.

Hello,

For Smart Arrows, it would be nice to be able to hold the Shift key (or something like that) to do multiple arrows in a string -- like pointing to multiple layers of materials on a roof, for example. When you click to place the arrowhead, if you hold the Shift key, it then continues to on and you then click to do another arrowhead; typically in line (tangent?) to the first one.

Neil:

You have, once again, completely lost me with this post. Perhaps an illustration might help convey your thoughts?

Dave

You have, once again, completely lost me with this post. Perhaps an illustration might help convey your thoughts?

OOH, must be a loooooong week, I haven't heard that you were stumped before.
Sit back, grab a brew and it will come to you.

OOH, must be a loooooong week, I haven't heard that you were stumped before.
Sit back, grab a brew and it will come to you.

Okay, Mr. Smarty Pants, is this what he's talking about? And BTW: I get stumped all the time with a lot of requests. Perhaps someday, I'll actually learn to use DataCAD. On the other hand, nah! Not knowing how it actually works has been going okay thus far, so why change that?

Neil Smart Arrow.JPG (100.49 KiB) Viewed 15591 times

Spock! Help me Spock!

MOre like a stingline setting is what I think he wants, more like this
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]I'm a doctor Jim, not a brick mason.

Also to add, once I pick 3pt arc for my smart arrow, would be nice for it to remember that is how I want all my smart arrows to be until I unselect it.

I'd vote for both of these types:

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I use the top one more often than the bottom string, but do those as well.

Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor not an actor!

More options == more typing. Yay!

His hands are dead Jim! I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker!!!

Gosh, I think I need a day (or an hour) off.

Dave

So what exactly DO you do between midnight and 4am?!? Work!?!?!

I was meaning something similar to Roger and Alan's second example:

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Or this:

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Okay, here's another "tweaky" change to Smart Arrows: when the 1st Ortho is toggled on, it would be helpful to have the subsequent legs of the arrow *always* be non-orthogonal.

I use Direction/Distance, so I typically have Ortho on most of the time (set to 24 divisions) and so when I want all the legs to be orthogonal, I don't need to use the 1st Ortho toggle. But if I only want the 1st leg orthogonal, I have to toggle off Ortho and toggle on the 1st Ortho...

So, it seems to me that if you use the 1st Ortho toggle, you would always want the subsequent arrow legs to be non-orthogonal. Otherwise, just stay in Ortho drawing mode...

(Can you tell that I've been using Smart Arrows lately? )

I agree.

... So, it seems to me that if you use the 1st Ortho toggle, you would always want the subsequent arrow legs to be non-orthogonal. Otherwise, just stay in Ortho drawing mode...

Done for the first Maintenance update.