Having used Advance Steel for 16 years, before cameras were functional enough to be useful, I got very quick at creating GA drawings by just creating views based on the UCS.
I keep giving cameras a go as they have the benefit of being able to modify the view window after drawing creation, but I still find them quite time consuming to set up compared to just creating views on the UCS, either with full extents or picking 2 points for the view window.
...so to make cameras easier to use I suggest the following:
1. With a fixed XY viewport, when grip editing, it moves the opposite side as well, keeping the centre in place. I find this far from ideal and just want to be able to grip edit one side and the other stay where it is. This would make it far easier to define the window you want.
2. Multi Edit - if you want to change the drawing style for multiple cameras, a multi edit does not work and only changes one of them. Multi edit capability would be useful.
3. Change Drawing style - if you change the drawing style associated with the camera, it does not affect an existing drawing view - you have to delete and re-create the drawing (or manually apply new style from within drawing using the DSM). Auto update of the view to a newly selected drawing style would be better.
4. Duplicates - once drawing views of cameras have been created, it should not be possible to create them again (via an MT default?). This would make it easier to create any missing views etc.
5. Grouping - it makes sense to create GA drawings in a logical way such as plans, then elevations, sections etc. Whilst there are several types of camera available, a few more types would be useful.
6. Draw order - the drawing views seem to be created in order that the cameras were created. Some way to set a specific draw order (so relevant views get placed on same drawing) would be useful.
7. Mirror - it would be usefult to mirror a camera for a view the opposite end of a building. However this results in the camera being upside down! I know a copy rotate will work, but the ability to mirror would be good.
8. User Attributes - when you have many cameras, they get difficult to see which is which. At least one user attribute field (plus any other new fields for the above functionality) that could be used in the Search & Mark Objects tool would make it much easier to find certain cameras to edit or create drawings from.
