Facadedrawings.

I am beginning to be needing a sufficient method to make facade drawings - because we are beginning to more work on our own shoulders and needs therefore the possibility to make presentation drawings for projects. And for that one needs to make facadedrawings. Untill now I have made some of the facadedrawings by making them manually in PlanCad and in the last case I used OpenGL pictures of the facades, scaled to correct scale as facadedrawings. None of the methods are very satisfying. I wonder how you out there are doing it.

Today, I remembered a function in D-Cam (8-4) to hide everything behind objects that are in front. I thought this would be a good way to make facadedrawings - but the problem was that it took very, very, very, very, very, very long time for the computer to complete this command. This was only a 120 m2 house in 2 stories. So I guess it would be impossible on bigger houses. So I wonder if that is the way you do it?

This could be a point for the wishlist:
I would like a seperate function: file/drawings/store/facadedrawings. This function automatically creates the facadedrawings for all 4 (or more) facades - like if you used function (8-4) + save current view. In the dialogbox there could be following choices:
- Automatically create facadedrawings from 4 sides of the house.
- Choose what sides to make drawings of.
- The possibilty to choose planes at an angle to x-y plane.
- The possibilty to choose planes that goes through the house (it could be that you have an "inside facade" (atrium)).
- Choose if you want all facades in one drawing file. Example 4 "normal" facades, and perhaps a submenu where you can choose the location of the single facades.
- Choose to get a single drawing file for each facade.
- Choose if you want a normal line drawing.
- Choose if you want a drawing with shadows (submenu with position of sun - or that you in another part of the program tells the program what direction is North, and in the drawing menu you choose the time of the day and the program automatically makes correct shadows).
- Choose if you want a line drawing with rendered surfaces - i.e. with colors and textures that you have used.

This would indeed be a very nice drawing function! Can we get it in version 8?...

Yeah it might work. I thought that the dashed hidden lines would be visible, but they are not. (Depends probably if you check "hidden lines" or not, when one take out the drawing).

The other options under "Display" - sketch, object hidden and shade: Sketch could work as well, because it processes quite fast, but the other 2 takes too long time.

But still - a "facade drawing" function should appear on the wishlist.