WF>> replies markedikua wrote: I would have some ideas for improvement of usability. I work a lot with annotations so lot of the ideas is based on drawing with a lot of different objects.
1. Move objects in a drawing forward/backward/foreground/background. At the moment it totally depends on, what is added first what next.
WF>> I like this. Different object types do have different Z-Orders, but within a type it is strictly "last created on top". I'll have to look for unintended side effects, but it sounds like a good idea.
2. Add in tree the possibility to make parts in the drawing selectable or not in the drawing.
WF>> only in the drawing? Still selectable in the tree? You can "lock" a View in position and it becomes unselectable on the drawing page.
3. If you add a annotation and put the first time another text, change the label of the annotation accordingly to the begin of the text to find it easier in the tree.
WF>> relatively easy to make the label always contain the first n characters of the annotation text. How big should n be?
4. Possibility to group parts in the drawing, so you can move them together by selecting everything inside the group.
WF>> are you talking about "rubber band" selection, or semi-permanent grouping? Where/why would this be useful?
5. Allow Hatching with multiple selected faces (add the moment you have to single assign hatches face by face, if you have selected multiples only the first one gets the hatch).
WF>> this one might not be too difficult. Seem to recall something similar somewhere in TD.
6. Use original line colors from model (see thread https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 3&start=20). That could be also really useful in connection with point 7, if you want to highlight some parts in an drawing.
WF>> this one is really hard. We don't know how a line in the drawing relates to the original object. That information is lost in the OCE Hidden Line Removal algorithms.
7. Align different drawings to each other (see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TM2wXORQuE , minute 22)
WF>> how fancy does this have to be? Doing everything that Inkscape's "Align and Distribute" does would be hard.
8. Really awesome would be, if you could automatically assign patterns to the cutfaces of Arch section views.
WF>> I think the long term plan is for Draft/Arch to migrate to native TechDraw Views and retire the special Draft/Arch Views.
But there is no timeline for this. At the moment this would have to be done in Arch since TD doesn't draw the ArchSection view, it just puts whatever Arch provides onto the page.
Thanks for the suggestions.