topic Re: The Color of Nodes in Modeling

The Color of Nodes

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:43:19 GMT

I am still experiencing the problem with mitered roof joints, as I mentioned in my previous post of March 24, "Roof Edge Trim Type". I never received any responses to my question, so I'm trying to figure it out on my own. I have noticed that the roof sections that won't miter have green, hollow nodes when selected, while the cooporative roof sections have solid black nodes. I have searched "help" and the forum extensively for answers, but no luck. Can someone please tell me the difference between solid black and hollow colored nodes?
Lee D.

Re: The Color of Nodes

Jacek — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 21:20:26 GMT

the roof sections that won't miter have green, hollow nodes when selected, while the cooporative roof sections have solid black nodes.

They have a different color because they are groupe, select them, ungroup them and udjest then as needed. If you have walls grouped and try to trim them to the roof they will not trim either. You always need to deselect the objects that you want to manipulate; stretch, adjust, change in any way. You may also need to "undue trim wall to roof" in order to be able to trim it properly again.

Re: The Color of Nodes

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 22:17:22 GMT

Thank you, Jacek. That did the trick.
Lee

Re: The Color of Nodes

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 23:56:02 GMT

Jacek wrote:
the roof sections that won't miter have green, hollow nodes when selected, while the cooporative roof sections have solid black nodes.
They have a different color because they are groupe, select them, ungroup them and udjest then as needed.

You don't need to ungroup ... only to suspend groups. Get in the habit of using the Alt-G key combination - default code for toggling group suspension. Unless some bug is causing the need to ungroup?

Karl

Re: The Color of Nodes

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:57:13 GMT

Thanks, Karl. Actually, I use alt-G all the time, and I made sure groups were suspended when trying to miter the roofs. It doesn't make much sense to me that the roof sections have to be ungrouped, but it seems to work on most, but not all of the roof sections, (I had to clear then redraw a couple of them). And why would some of them be grouped and others not? In one hip roof, two sections might be grouped and two not. I don't get it.

Re: The Color of Nodes

Jacek — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 22:56:10 GMT

And why would some of them be grouped and others not? In one hip roof, two sections might be grouped and two not. I don't get it.

You can choose to 'Group' or 'Suspend Groups' as you draw, thus when you are drawing a series of; let's say lines or polylines when tracing a contour, they will be all grouped into a a single 'package' -wchich you can then easily put on a special layer, change line weights etc..
Does this help?

Re: The Color of Nodes

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 01:04:53 GMT

Lee wrote:
Thanks, Karl. Actually, I use alt-G all the time, and I made sure groups were suspended when trying to miter the roofs. It doesn't make much sense to me that the roof sections have to be ungrouped, but it seems to work on most, but not all of the roof sections, (I had to clear then redraw a couple of them). And why would some of them be grouped and others not? In one hip roof, two sections might be grouped and two not. I don't get it.

It should not be necessary to ungroup, so something seems amiss. Perhaps you could post a zipped MOD file here with only the offending group of roofs and perhaps a note indicating whith roof edge won't edit unless you ungroup. One or more of us can take a look.

Thanks,
Karl