topic Re: ArchiCAD 23 coordinate issue in Modeling

ArchiCAD 23 coordinate issue

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:00:14 GMT

Hi,

ive recently purchased ArchiCAD 23, so im fairly new to ArchiCAD, however ive over 5 years experience in Revit so am familiar with a lot of BIM protocol and ways of working.

Iv tried importing a PDF into Archicad today, and the first this I noticed was that it was rotated to an odd angle. That not a big issue as I can rotate this to align with x and y ornthangoal view.

I have then tried to draw some lines. I have unputted the length of these lines using the distance on the 'quick reference' tool, however when I do this it seems to click relative to the origin. I certainly does not want to naturally draw a straight line along the x axis.

What am I doing wrong, or is this some quirk of ArchiCAD.

Re: ArchiCAD 23 coordinate issue

Lingwisyer — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 02:24:35 GMT

Have an image to illustrate your issue?

Re: ArchiCAD 23 coordinate issue

Barry Kelly — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 02:53:12 GMT

By "quick reference tool", do you mean the tracker?

If so there is an option in the tracker settings to use relative coordinates - i.e. from the user origin and not the project origin.

Barry.

Re: ArchiCAD 23 coordinate issue

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:06:20 GMT

Hi, thanks. My settings are set so that coordinates are relative to tracker. Interestingly today having closed the file and re-opened it, things seem to have reverted to normal.

Re: ArchiCAD 23 coordinate issue

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:07:03 GMT

Lingwisyer wrote:
Have an image to illustrate your issue?

things seem to have reverted to normal today. I guess it must have been a glitch.