topic Re: Bimx AC 18 in BIMx

Bimx AC 18

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:21:43 GMT

In AC 18 I used Save As for a simple Bimx model. Works fine and I am able to "fly" except the mouse doesn't work like it does in ArchiCad. I am unable to aim my viewpoint (as in a FPS game.)

I did download a model of one of the online examples and the mouse works fine there. What am I doing wrong?

thanks!

Re: Bimx AC 18

Barry Kelly — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:41:15 GMT

Is it the parallel/perspective view?
F8 is the keyboard shortcut.

Barry.

Re: Bimx AC 18

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:34:15 GMT

Hi Barry:

No, it is in the perspective view. The parallel view doesn't seem to work at all.

Everything seems to work (WASD, c and space bar) except the mouse,

thanks

Re: Bimx AC 18

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:29:02 GMT

Ok, so I think I have fixed the problem. First, I discovered that when you press escape to show the menus, the keyboard controls will work, but the mouse will not. I don't know why that would be the case, but it is.

I remade the model in AC 17 and the mouse seemed to work better, but I wasn't quite sure as it was still erratic. Then I tried another mouse and that made no difference. Finally, I found the mouse settings under Settings (I thought they would have been under Controls) and turned the inversion on and off. And that seems to have fixed the problem! At least for the moment. Apparently, no one else has had any navigation issues in Bimx?

I use the fly mode in AC a lot when designing and have always been frustrated by the speed adjustment which seemed to be either very, very slow or way too fast. I was really surprised to find that the speed adjustment in AC18 was much better. What a difference a small thing like that can make in your everyday use!

Re: Bimx AC 18

David Maudlin — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:38:41 GMT

Don wrote:
I discovered that when you press escape to show the menus, the keyboard controls will work, but the mouse will not. I don't know why that would be the case, but it is.

The mouse is needed to choose between the various settings. If the mouse was active for the model navigation, you couldn't get it back to the settings area, or it would be controlling navigation and settings choice at the same time.

David

Re: Bimx AC 18

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:40:15 GMT

Hi David:

Now that you explain it, it makes complete sense! Not sure why I had to fool with the mouse inversion settings to get it to work, but it does, so all is fine.

thanks,

Don

Re: Bimx AC 18

Roopa A — Mon, 14 May 2018 08:29:20 GMT

Hai

In AC 18, File > Save as > bimx option is not showing. Am active in 3D window only.

I have AC 19 & 20, now for BIMx I installed AC 18.

Thank you

Re: Bimx AC 18

vistasp — Tue, 15 May 2018 04:03:38 GMT

Roopa, it's not a "save-as" option.

Re: Bimx AC 18

Roopa A — Tue, 15 May 2018 04:10:06 GMT

Hi,

But in 18 in our system it's showing for file > save as > bimx.
But this option is not showing in mac machine.

Thank you

Re: Bimx AC 18

Roopa A — Tue, 15 May 2018 08:35:02 GMT

Hi,

In AC20, while we save file as BIMx from Hypermodel, its showing as BIMx package failed. Y?
For other projects its working.

Thank You

Re: Bimx AC 18

Erwin Edel — Tue, 15 May 2018 09:19:46 GMT

Last time I had this problem a reboot of the computer solved it. No idea what caused it, but a reboot is often able to fix a problem, so as a tip, if you can't find out the problem quickly, save file, reboot and see if that fixes it.