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just a thought - it is a new way of working - change is not always bad. You can have perspective views if you want to work in them.
Like I said - it is just a thought...
LD
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@LisaDrago wrote:
just a thought - it is a new way of working - change is not always bad. You can have perspective views if you want to work in them.
Like I said - it is just a thought...
LD
This thread strikes me as funny for some reason. I understand the desire to work in perspective view. This is how we naturally experience space, so it makes sense that an Architect would want to work in a perspective view.
As for a "new way of working", in my training as an Architect and while I was practicing as an Architect, perspective views were something I typically did LATE in the process. They were presentation views. I did not WORK and DESIGN in perspective. Perhaps quick sketch perspective studies or physical models, but most of my design work was done from orthographically projected views (plans, elevations, sections). In that sense Revit is still very TRADITIONAL. When I want to "see" something in perspective, I can create a quick camera view (very quick and very accurate). I will often tile my camera view and other orthographic views so i can see both at the same time. This lets me be both accurate and understand the space in a perspective view at the same time.
From my experience working and designing in perspective view on a computer screen is something that is pretty NEW.
All of that said, the desire to work in a perspective view is often requested, and understood by the Revit team.
In my past office experience, designers who used Sketchup were extremely resistant to even consider using Revit because of its lack of editing ability in camera views.
In Revit 2015, you can use Move and Align commands. So that's a liitle bit of improvement. I agree that a full set of editing / modeling tools should be available in perspective views.
So--the Factory is listening, and hopefully in future releases the whole set of tools will be functional in perspective views.
That said--having used 3dsMax, Maya, Architectural Desktop/ACA, Bentley Microstation and Sketchup--and beginning with Revit's 1st release back in 2000,
I have become very comfortable modeling in plan, elevation, section, isometric and camera views. Lots of good buildings have been produced using these methods.
But the sooner the better for full modeling capabilities in perspective.
Cliff B. Collins
Registered Architect The Lamar Johnson Collaborative Architects-St. Louis, MO
Registered Architect The Lamar Johnson Collaborative Architects-St. Louis, MO
The date is not relevant to the fact that the comment is sarcastic and patronizing. I do realise when it was posted but what’s worse, I also realise that it is now 2015 and the OPTION of switching between Axonometry and Perspective is not there yet when others have it for ages.
You may not like working in perspective, but many others do and I see no reason why we should not have the option of switching between the two.
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Jeff,
That's a pretty arrogant answer to a customer request. "This thread strikes me as funny..." what a joke! I think that you should not be telling people that they they've got it all wrong and should stick to the OLD and TRADITIONAL ways. If we stuck to the traditional ways, we would still be drawing bay hand and Revit would not exist, right? Please keep your sarcastic comments to yourself and try listening to your customers for a change, otherwise they won't stick around for too long.
I hear that Vectorworks users in the UK are now more than Revit users, perhaps because you were too busy posting comments like this instead of delivering what your customers really want.
Zhezy005,
If my original response came off to you as arrogant that was not my intention. I am sorry.
My original comment acknowledges the desire to have editng tools in perspective views after the intro of "This thread strikes me as funny..."
My comment was comming from the position of my experience as a design professional and as a design instructor at 2 local colleges. The idea of designing and working in perspective view is not something that happens in my experience. Perspectives are (and have always been) used as an additional tool and way of understanding a design or a space, but the design process typically happens on orthographic projections (plans, sections, elevations). This is still true today in my experience.
With modeling software perspective views can be created pretty much "at will" and should be used as part of the design process, I am just not sure how much designing happens in these views even when editing in them is possible.
Like my original post said, I do understand the desire to have editing tools in a Revit perspective view, but in my experience the designing happens in other views and the perspective is used a a visual "check", or in a presentation. Even without being able to edit in a perspective view it is possible to tile views in Revit and in effect use the perspective view this way while manipulating the elements in section and plan views.
Also since the post was originally created in 2012 there has been some changes to Revit's ability to work in a perspective view.
Help: Work in a Perspective View
You can also toggle a perspective view to orthographic/axonometric/Parallel 3D like you showed in the image of ArchiCAD?
Work is continuing in this area as well, so we are listening to customers (at least on this one 
). So again I am sorry if my original post came off as arrogant, that was not my intention.
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