topic Re: Refrences for drawing lines in Modeling

Refrences for drawing lines

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:36:15 GMT

Hi all,

I am new with Archicad! Before I always used Revit, but I want to learn Archicad.
Only I have a problem with measurements. For example I want to draw a floor where the points are always 750mm from some walls, I can only acomplish this with a lot of steps. But I think it should be easy.
The problem is the distance is always measured from the previous point, but is it possible to measure from a reference point?
So see image for a more clear explanation.

Now I get it only done by drawing the floor line on the wall and when it is finished I move all the points 750 from the wall.

Greetings,
Bram

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Re: Refrences for drawing lines

DGSketcher — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:52:33 GMT

Have a watch of this tutorial by Eric Bobrow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX9NIFd93W8

Re: Refrences for drawing lines

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:52:18 GMT

You can set a start point relative to a known point by doing the following:

Hover cursor over a known node or edge
Type "X (distance) +" then hit Enter (excluding quotes)
This will move your cursor your distance to the right of the original start point.

"X (distance) -" Enter will move to the left
"Y (distance) +" Enter will move Up
"Y (distance) -" Enter will move down.

In your case hover over the corner of the existing wall and type in "Y 750 + Enter"

You can do this before starting to place a wall, for example, or draw a line, or you can use it to move an existing element to a point relative to something else.

(this sounds complicated but it is not, and you will get the hang of it very quickly)

Re: Refrences for drawing lines

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:14:36 GMT

DGSketcher wrote:
Have a watch of this tutorial by Eric Bobrow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX9NIFd93W8

Thanks this video was really usefull! I need to use the + and - for the distances to do the trick

Re: Refrences for drawing lines

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:16:22 GMT

s2art wrote:
You can set a start point relative to a known point by doing the following:

Hover cursor over a known node or edge
Type "X (distance) +" then hit Enter (excluding quotes)
This will move your cursor your distance to the right of the original start point.

"X (distance) -" Enter will move to the left
"Y (distance) +" Enter will move Up
"Y (distance) -" Enter will move down.

In your case hover over the corner of the existing wall and type in "Y 750 + Enter"

You can do this before starting to place a wall, for example, or draw a line, or you can use it to move an existing element to a point relative to something else.

(this sounds complicated but it is not, and you will get the hang of it very quickly)

Thanks for your explanation! The + and - sign where the ones I did not know about, and it makes drawing much easier