Print at Dec 16, 2025, 2:04:52 AM

Posted by UKenGB at Jul 27, 2016, 10:59:40 AM
Some thoughts
First of all, I think SH3D is amazing and Emmanuel should be congratulated on what he has achieved. But as with everything, there's always improvements that can be made. wink

Notes for furniture objects.

Often there are many apparently similar items whose variations are not obvious. You might have to delve into the 'materials' of the object to see what can or cannot be done. It would be so much better if an object could have notes attached so the designer could list the specific features to make it easier to then search for and select the best alternative.

Furniture panel

Could the categorising be done better so that for example searching for 'window' doesn't find all doors as well and vice versa. The problem is they are both in the 'Doors and windows' category which is included in the search so searching for 'door' or 'window' will always list both. But if I want a window, I don't want to have to search through doors as well. Currently there's no way to retrieve JUST doors, or JUST windows.

Levels

... are like Layers in other drawing apps and it would be great if we could more easily 'show' and 'hide' layers, e.g. right click on the Level's tab to pop up a context menu about that Level, with 'Hide' and/or 'Show' as options. Also perhaps a pop up window listing all the levels and a simple visibility check box next to each. In fact, make it just like the furniture list so it can also be viewed in the left hand panel of the main window.

Also, to be able to simultaneously show more than one Level in Plan would be helpful.

Walls

Add TEXTURE to top of wall. If you can see the top of a wall, you need for it to show the texture of the wall. Just a colour is not sufficient. It should be possible for the Wall's texture to 'wrap' around ANY edges that show, either at its extremities or if it's cut through with an invisible object.

Also, I would like to see saved wall parameter sets. So a particular wall configuration (height, thickness, texture etc) could be saved, by name and then quickly recalled for re-use. Even better, also allow a Level to have a default wall assigned. This would make a huge improvement in speed of design/drawing.