topic Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug? in Installation & update

Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

archislave — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:25:50 GMT

I have reoccurring problem drawing lines to a specific length. I click a starting point - get it started - and type the distance. It works one time on a newly opened file. From then on it puts the end of the line down where my cursor is and ignores the numerical input.

If I reopen the file it will work once. I have 1010 on a iMac G5 10.4.
Very annoying

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

TomWaltz — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:31:31 GMT

Turn this off:

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

archislave — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:24:42 GMT

Thanks, Tom, but it was already unchecked. Like I say it will work only one when the file is open. Maybe something with a plist in OSX ... I have no idea. My reseller did not know.

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

TomWaltz — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:36:17 GMT

I don't know. It works fine for me.

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

archislave — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:39:58 GMT

Even typing x or y and distance does not work.

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

TomWaltz — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:46:47 GMT

Are you using Tracker?

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

archislave — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:52:54 GMT

Oh! That seemed to do it. Archicad is so bewildering in it's interface options that I just start using it as it comes up when I create a new file. I guess I have never stopped to understand how to use the tracker or guidlines and they just appear or not.

I appreciate the help figuring out this mystery!

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

Chazz — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:39:08 GMT

archislave wrote:
I guess I have never stopped to understand how to use the tracker or guidlines and they just appear or not.

Tracker is always turned off when I launch a new AC session and must be turned on manually (steady Dwight) each time I use the software. I consider this a bug. Anyone else notice this?

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:08:54 GMT

Did you ever find out why tracker is always off when you start up?
I have it set to be on as part of my Work Environment profiles, but it not only doesn't come on at start up, but it seems like it gets turned off during the course of working. I've looked for some "accidental" keyboard shortcut that's turning it off, w/o success so far.

I set up all my work environment/ user profile info on my laptop at home, and it works fine there, I'm wondering if when I exported/ imported it something got scrambled?

If you found a solution, or if others have one, I'd love to hear it.
Thanks,

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

Chazz — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:57:39 GMT

catalano wrote:
Did you ever find out why tracker is always off when you start up?

Nope. I just wrote a shortcut to get to the place to turn it on and do that each time I open up a new session. It's a little silly.

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

Anonymous — Sun, 20 May 2007 23:12:04 GMT

I'm having the same problem but my tracker is turned on and I have all of the checks in the same places in the Tracker Settings box. Is there somewhere else where there is a setting to measure everything from the origin?

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

Anonymous — Sun, 20 May 2007 23:21:16 GMT

nklank

Is this what you're looking for? Tracker settings pulldown, Relative units are on as shown, off if icon is not blue (i.e. from Origin).

Re: Drawing a line a certain length - Bug?

Anonymous — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:43:42 GMT

Yup, that was it. I had discredited that earlier on because I thought that I had tried that but apparently I hadn't. Thanks for your help.

Nick