topic Re: HOTARC2 in Libraries & objects

HOTARC2

piton — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:27:21 GMT

I have problem with HOTARC2. Under some circumstances, it is not placed where an ARC2 with the same parameters. Looks like it ignores some of the coordinate transformations.

In Archicad12 it was completely wrong, in Archicad14 it is sometimes wrong.
Does anyone has experience with it in Archicad15? Is it correct there?

here is a sample code:


!first draw
GOSUB 100

!transform
ADD2 2,2
ROT2 45

!second draw
GOSUB 100
END

!draw something 
100:
PEN 4
ARC2 -2,0,1,0,90
HOTARC2 -2,0,1,0,90

ARC2 0,0,1,180,270
HOTARC2 0,0,1,180,270
GOSUB 200
RETURN

!show XY cursor
200:
DEFINE STYLE "xy" "Arial", 2, 3, 0 
STYLE xy
PEN 1
LINE2 0,0,1,0
TEXT2 1,0, "x"
PEN 3
LINE2 0,0,0,1
TEXT2 0,1, "y"
RETURN

After coordinate transformation, the second HOTARC2 is placed badly.
You can search for it with the mouse. (ArchiCAD build 14 HUN 4204 Win32 FULL)

Re: HOTARC2

David Maudlin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:13:54 GMT

piton wrote:
Does anyone has experience with it in Archicad15? Is it correct there?

In ArchiCAD 15, one of the arcs after the transformation (the one closer to the center of the object) does not have the HotArc2 mouse response, I do not know why.

David

Re: HOTARC2

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:08:52 GMT

It works in AC15 the same way as in AC14.
It's really interesting. Is it a bigbug?

Looks like the ROT command doesn't effect to the HOTARC2.

Re: HOTARC2

Erika Epstein — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:39:50 GMT

Interesting.
I changed the start coordinate to 0,0 to see if the negative value had anything to do with it. Now the second, farther away, segment of the rotated arc is the problem with no active hotarc.

Re: HOTARC2

Erika Epstein — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:58:17 GMT

Re: HOTARC2

Erika Epstein — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:39:11 GMT

The hotarcs are being rotated, but they are not being moved the correct
amount. If you move your cursor above the left end of the rotated one about the radius high and just to the right you find an invisible node which is the center of the hotarc curve. the mercedes cursor appears to the left and right.

Re: HOTARC2

Jochen Suehlo — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:43:43 GMT

HOTARC2 seems to be a bit buggy.
In some new ArchiCAD version(s) (I do not know exactly which) it does not work with 0, 360°, but with 0, 359°.

Re: HOTARC2

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:27:39 GMT

Hello,

I think this the full hotarc2 circle has
been for a long time to be declared as
'hotarc2 0, 0, radius, 0, 359.9' or similar,
not full 360 degrees.