What measuring tool would be useful for you: measuring thickness of material layers? Measuring diameters of holes? Measurement lines between elements and to grid lines? Slope degrees and angular measurements? Georeference points and heights? … Feel free to let us know in a comment.
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Good question, see my input in order of importance:
(If by measuring, we mean just measuring and not annotating)
- Between elements & grid lines
- Heights
- Diameters
- Slopes
- Georeferenced points
- Thickness of layers
Measuring thickness of material layers: (Not sure if I need to measure it, might as well be just inside the parameters)
Measuring diameters of holes: Hovering around borders of a circle reveals diameter/perimeter? Measurement lines between elements and grid lines? This is for me essential, beter if it’s aligned to the grid lines or to the element. Slope degrees and angular measurements: yes, if possible, also in %. Georeferenced points and heights. Georeferenced points in Lambert 72, only essential at reference point. Heights: TAW & also based on a reference level.
Hi @Andres_Martinez, thanks for sharing your ideas. I can let you know that some tools will already be available in Qonic by the end of the year. Since we find all your suggestions valuable, we will continue to develop them and release them in the near future.
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Though the laser measure tool is very useful, I am missing a simple point-to-point measure tool. These come in many different variations. Some simply give the direct value, others give a decomposition in X, Y and Z.
Then there are those tools that try to give perpendicular values between parallel planes. Or between a point and a plain, …
That last one is very useful in my opinion.
hello @Johan_De_Cock , thank you for your input. We’ll be adding more functionality to our laser tool over time. And a point-to-point measurement tool is indeed something we need to add. I like the display of X, Y, Z and the short distance as you mentioned. Also the ‘absolute level’ of points is another thing we need to add, so you can measure for example that the absolute height of the bottom of a beam is 54m05. Another nice feature, measuring the thickness of material layers, is now close to release.
Measuring the perpendicular between a point and a plane or between two planes as you mentioned is now already possible.
Hi Dieter,
The perpendicular measurement you refer to, is part of the laser measure?
That is not entirely what I meant. It is nice in the example you show where the planes are parallel and about the same size. But it only works if the perpendicular line on the origin face touches the target face.
What I mean is that the point-to-point measuring will also look for perpendicular distance when used between to faces. And then it will work with any face. Also when there is other geometry in between. Or when the objects are on different building storeys, …
Hello @Johan_De_Cock , yes, I was refering to the Laser Measure tool. But I get your point now. I’ll add this to our ‘user requests’ list and will let you know when it’s added to Qonic.
Apart from the types of measurements, will there be an option to leave multiple measurements on the screen? That is very useful during coordination work for creating issues/topics, …
And when an issue/topic is recalled it is so nice to have the annotation (measurement or otherwise) display on the screen again.
I created a ‘user request‘ with this idea @Johan_De_Cock We’ll let you know as soon it is in the product.
With the inclusion of point-to-point measurements a couple releases ago, we are getting closer to my request from last year.
Unfortunately it still is very limited for what we try to do in our day to day use. With the deep select we can actually select a point on one element and a face on another. But very often the “shortest” distance is not perpendicular. So it makes little sense to use that value. Vertical is usefull for sure.
So I’d like to request two additional modes:
- Horizontal (with X/Y decomposition) => letting the user choose either X or Y I think wouldn’t be very handy because who knows which direction is X or Y in a model anyway?
- Perpendicular => either this is perpendicular to the first or the second element/plane/… that is selected. I think it would be very difficult to make that dynamic
Something similar to the “spot slope” in Revit would be very useful as well!.
I don’t recall to have come across any other software that has something like that.
To expand on that possibility, something to colour slopes could also be nice. I think Microstation has something like that, but also cloudcompare (and probably lots of image/point cloud capture software as well).
Interesting @Johan_De_Cock , what do the ‘spot slope’ and ‘colour slope’ functionalities do that you find useful?
Telling me the direction and amount of slope of a slab/roof/…
We are doing lots of concrete work that often has specific slopes. It can be the inside of a trench, but also the slab that ‘drains’ to that trench.
Seeing the direction of slopes tells us where the water will go. Knowing the amount of slope is important in verification.
=> All that can be very easily ‘annotated’ in Revit with the spot slope tool. But I know of none 3D-based approaches. Though it is very similar to measuring coordinates.
Using some colour scheme will have different objective:
- Either a colour code to show the amount of slope. It makes it easy to validate that all slabs have sufficient slope (>1% for example) while not too much (<5% for forklifts)
- Or a way to visualize for lots of slopes what the direction is of the slope
- Visualizing whether a “surface” is planar in slope or the slope changes gradually (
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