topic Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball in Installation & update

AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

fuzzytnth3 — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:56:50 GMT

I am trying to set up a Work Environment in ArchiCAD 24 that is similar to what I had done for ArchiCAD 23

However I am finding it next to impossible to place and dock toolbars where I want them to go and preferably to have no gaps as well but AC24 the toolbars just jump to where ever they want to go, see movie attached.

Any ideas how to get ArchiCAD 24 to play nice?

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZgz15XZzzp5FyEEaIm3pe701gAUT84KWNFk

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

fuzzytnth3 — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:13:19 GMT

I found a way round the problem. I imported the old AC23 one I had and mad a couple of replacements to commands that no longer exist.

I hope this gets fixed for future updates though as having to use an older version of ArchiCAD to create a work enviro is daft and defo not progress!

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

Minh Nguyen — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:29:27 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for the report and I am very sorry about the issue!

This seems to be a very rare one. In the past, we used to have a somewhat similar issue with AC21 and macOS 10.11/10.12. I would like to confirm if you are using macOS 10.14.6? I don't whether holding Ctrl when dragging and snapping the palette helps with the issue? Can the issue be replicated after importing Work Environment from AC23?

Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

fuzzytnth3 — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:20:38 GMT

Hi thanks for replying.

The operating system I am on is Mac OSX 10.15.6 (19G2021)

With the imported ArchiCAD 23 Work Enviro, it imports and positions everything as it did in ArchiCAD 23 but if I try to edit it, it messes up again.

I also tried moving things and holding down the Ctrl key but it had no effect.

Thanks

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

Minh Nguyen — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 06:59:16 GMT

Hi,

Thank you very much for the quick reply!

If that is the case, I'm wondering if you could reproduce the issue once more, fully close Archicad and collect the FastLoggers (https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/knowledgebase/63116/). It would be great if you could share the System information as well (https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/knowledgebase/95408/). Please let me know if you need a secure place to upload the files.

One more thing, is there any external display connected to the machine?
Thank you very much for your help!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

fuzzytnth3 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:15:00 GMT

Hi sorry for the delay actual Work got in the way

Below is link to download my System info plus the Fastlogger file that was created while I tried to adjust the palettes on the toolbar. Hope that helps

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZMCVJXZ1nlVkvTpMmH9lHVehUges8wof2LX

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

Minh Nguyen — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 11:06:42 GMT

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
Hi sorry for the delay actual Work got in the way

Below is link to download my System info plus the Fastlogger file that was created while I tried to adjust the palettes on the toolbar. Hope that helps

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZMCVJXZ1nlVkvTpMmH9lHVehUges8wof2LX

Hello,

Thank you very much!
I got the files already. Let me have our colleagues in the Technical Support team to look into this. Let's hope that the FastLogger contains the necessary information about the issue!

In the meantime, I'm wondering if you can export the problematic Work Environment and share it with us for in-house testing?

Best regards,
Minh

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

fuzzytnth3 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:15:42 GMT

Hi

I have uploaded into the same folder the two Work Environments. The one that works which is an adjusted ArchiCAD 23 one and a Work Envrio that doesn't work

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

Minh Nguyen — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:43:50 GMT

Hi,

Thank you very much! I got the file now. Our colleague is investigating the case. Once we have a conclusion, I will let you know!

Have a great day!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

Minh Nguyen — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:25:31 GMT

Hi,

Unfortunately, the logs did not help to reveal what went wrong with the palette docking process. Our developer can only see that the AMA Work Environment is used in the Archicad, but there is no information about the toolbar palette docking. Our colleagues and our developers were unable to replicate the issue with the given Work Environment also

As I can see that Archicad window is maximized when moving the palette. I'm wondering with a smaller window or with entering Full-Screen, does it help with the issue?

Is there anything special about your hardware setup? We can see from the file, that your machine only has 8GB, which is the minimum requirement to run Archicad. But still, this should not cause such issue like this.

Please let me know if you notice any further details. Thank you very much and I am very sorry for the inconvenience!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:19:36 GMT

Hi

Sorry been a bit too busy to check my messages.

The Mac I was using was a Mac Mini which has 16Gbs of RAM two units of 8GBS. As a Mac Mini I don't think it has a separate Graphics Card due to it's limited design so maybe that is an issue

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

Minh Nguyen — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:33:20 GMT

Hello,

Unfortunately, it could be the case. The Mac Mini lacks a dedicated GPU, therefore there might be some graphical glitch when we use it for Archicad. We always recommend using a dedicated graphics card for running Archicad on macOS (please have a look here).

We haven't received any similar record like this, so it would be very hard to troubleshoot without a stable reproduction method. I am very sorry for the inconvenience! Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

Vitruvius — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:09:11 GMT

I was having the same difficulty with AC25. Moving the palette / toolbar to a docking position and it ends up placing itself randomly below or further along the dock rather than right adjacent and in the spot it was placed.

I found the following worked:
1. Drag the toolbar/palette to the desired location as accurately as you can.
2. Keep the mouse button depressed for a few seconds before releasing.

The 2nd step seems to encourage it to dock neatly.

Re: AC 24 Work Environment not playing ball

Minh Nguyen — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:19:01 GMT

Vitruvius wrote:
I was having the same difficulty with AC25. Moving the palette / toolbar to a docking position and it ends up placing itself randomly below or further along the dock rather than right adjacent and in the spot it was placed.

I found the following worked:
1. Drag the toolbar/palette to the desired location as accurately as you can.
2. Keep the mouse button depressed for a few seconds before releasing.

The 2nd step seems to encourage it to dock neatly.

Hello,

Thank you very much for the report and I am very sorry for the issue!

It seems like the problem only happens with Mac Mini, as the previous user also mentioned it there. I'm wondering if you have access to another Mac machine to see whether the issue can be reproduced, using the same Work Environment?

Furthermore, I would like to know if there is any scaling applied to the display on macOS?

Best regards,
Minh