I need to have the ability to use vector hatching each manually and as part fill. Many plan / elevation / part views are accomplished in hidden line quite then full coloration, and raster patterns will not be efficient in these views.
Simply one other function that higher CAD software program has that Sketchup painfully lacks.
Kinda like CIRCLES.
The concept of SU is an easy core round witch you may add extensions. Some extensions ought to/may joint the core instruments, I agree, however many extra are area of interest.
Fairly certain the concept right here was that hatching part was a presentation instrument, due to this fact in format, and never a modelling instrument in SU. I don’t even recall if LO has vector hatches or nonetheless the raster ones.
Since that is the was SU is constructed, you might take into account extensions like Curic Part or its lite model. They will let you use hatches when making sections in SU, no concept if they’re vector although.
in time period of geometry, it’s simple to make a 2nd circle in a CAD program.
Making it 3d, cylinder or sphere poses an issue. it’s extra advanced and ressource heavy resulting from a man named π.
Some 3D softwares will work with volumes and nurbs. they make vector volumes which are mathematically precise however harder to work with.
another will work with polygons and faces. SU is a type of. they’re much less exact however enable for extra flexibility and freedom.
Nurbs are nice for making precise volumes, however polygons (triangles and quads) appears method higher for… computational energy, rendering, ray tracing… just about every part else.
And humorous sufficient, it appears that evidently even Autocad, the CAD reference, lies concerning the circles. You may select how clean they seem, similar to in SU. I suppose it’s a vertex/face primarily based software program too (feels kinda logical)
When working CAD, the factor that really issues is the flexibility to regulate the decision to some extent you received’t see the polygon (extra segments for eg.) and the flexibility of the software program to recollect within the metadata that it’s a circle, so in terms of measurement and volumes, it makes use of the correct equations.
A long time in Autocad right here. Circles in autocad are actual geometric circles, you simply select how jaggy they render on display for pace. However it would do the maths appropriately to seek out intersections and tangents and so forth. Sketchup doesn’t try this with precision, which typically impacts my work. I perceive the sacrifice for pace however it actually hurts and frustrates typically.
I’d be wonderful with a plugin for the hatching – however there isn’t one which does it how I need. Perhaps somebody will write one, however I don’t reckon I ought to maintain my breath.
Format ought to have plugins to customise it, and doesnt, and continues to be SLOW to distinction the relative pace of Sketchup’s major program.
