Hi,

We have used Autocad for many years, so it was great taking on bored Microvellum as it was Autocad based. Now that it has switched to Bricscad, which I am now in the process of getting up to speed for us to switch over, it seems to have leaped back in time on how it uses viewports!

Over the years, we have tried many methods for creating layout drawings for submittal. MV to be frank is useless to us for submittal drawings, as we are bespoke and every job is different. Viewbase sucks because it has some really weird and horrible quirks, including the red box of death. So we settled on using section planes to create flatshots, to then use within viewports and this was working great.

When a viewport is created in Autocad, it allows you to choose what you want to see and then choose a scale. Should you then wish to change the scale to fit better on the layout, when you changed the scale, the viewport resizes dynamically to refit all within the new chosen scale. EASY.

So now using BSB, you create a viewport which selects EVERYTHING, and then you have to go into it to zoom to what you want, come out, change the scale to what you need and then have to resize the viewport window. Then after all of the time getting viewports just to where you want them, you realise you need a little more space so decide to reduce the scale of a viewport and have to resize it all again! This is old Autocad behaviour and was changed many years ago to stop this old and very slow way of creating and editing viewports.

So why is BSB not up to speed on this? When we switch over (we now have to, to be able to update for bugs), it is going to increase our drawing time and cause a LOT of friction.

Does anyone now if Bricscad is looking at this and hopefully implementing the change in the future?