topic Re: Drawing tools in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

Drawing tools

BenLeslie1 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:53:29 GMT

Just installed CE 2012 trial (upgrade from 2011). The new drawing tools are supercool but, unless I'm being dim, one tiny piece of functionality has gone missing:

-the ability to inhibit snapping by pressing SHIFT... it's still listed in help... am I doing something wrong, those big orange dots get in the way?

Oh, and 'rectangular shape creation'... am I right - the rectangle only aligns to the axes or an adjacent shape? It would be much more useful if we could draw rotated rectangles (yes I know we can do this with right-angle snap on the polygon draw tool but finding those snap angles takes longer).

Re: Drawing tools

BenLeslie1 — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:19:22 GMT

Hmm, I'm having second thoughts about how supercool the new drawing tools are. Certainly some aspects of them are but other aspects are not so good as far as I can tell.

If I draw a nice clean rectangle then another one partially abutting it I get additional vertices in the original shape - these can cause gable roofs to be drawn incorrectly so I find I have to manually delete the additional vertices to get a good roof.

Re: Drawing tools

MatthiasBuehler1 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:34:23 GMT

Hi,

the shape creation tool was changed completely from 2011 to 2012. it's working enirely different.

check tutorial 14 ( 3 parts ) :
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/64843-CityEngine-Collection-RESOURCES-FAQ-HELP

For the upcoming CityEngine 2013, the tool has been improved a LOT, to make it much more stable towards producing correct geometries.

ok ?

m.

Re: Drawing tools

BenLeslie1 — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:01:01 GMT

Ah thank you this helps - I see now that SHIFT inhibits the joining of shapes but I still believe the ability to inhibit snapping completely has gone missing - I think it would be useful, I hope it returns in 2013.