SBuilder Fences
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:39 pm
I've just fenced-in a portion of my airport using SBuilder's new "Fences and Walls" macro library. Works quite well. Thanks.
Edit: I'm using 2.05 V6.
However, the experience would have been less trying if SBuilder:
1. made an outline of the fence's original position as a reference when moving it (the same would hold true when moving any object), and
2. allowed for object placement at an offset from the selected position on the screen - a la EZ Scenery. When attempting to place fence sections, one would use an offset of half the length of the fence section, at the fence orientation, thus allowing precise placement of one end of the fence. (Even with the end points of two fence sections exactly aligned using the highest zoom setting, the ends of two fence sections were out of alignment by up to a foot in FS9, thus requiring "tweaking" of the lat/lon.) Such a capability would be useful any time one attempts to place an object precisely using a point other than the object's center as a reference.
I also noticed that the "undo" capability would not undo macro object moves.
Despite this, SBuilder is a terrific tool. Now, if it just understood AFCAD bgls.
Thanks again,
Don
Edit: I'm using 2.05 V6.
However, the experience would have been less trying if SBuilder:
1. made an outline of the fence's original position as a reference when moving it (the same would hold true when moving any object), and
2. allowed for object placement at an offset from the selected position on the screen - a la EZ Scenery. When attempting to place fence sections, one would use an offset of half the length of the fence section, at the fence orientation, thus allowing precise placement of one end of the fence. (Even with the end points of two fence sections exactly aligned using the highest zoom setting, the ends of two fence sections were out of alignment by up to a foot in FS9, thus requiring "tweaking" of the lat/lon.) Such a capability would be useful any time one attempts to place an object precisely using a point other than the object's center as a reference.
I also noticed that the "undo" capability would not undo macro object moves.
Despite this, SBuilder is a terrific tool. Now, if it just understood AFCAD bgls.
Thanks again,
Don