topic Auto Intersection in Modeling

Auto Intersection

Erwin Edel — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:42:33 GMT

Is there a way to permanently turn off Auto Intersection?

Every time I start ArchiCAD I end up turning it off once it automatically connects a wall in the way I don't want. At the end of the day I close ArchiCAD, shut down computer and next day it's turned on again (the Auto Intersection).

I've tried saving the Work Environment many times, it just won't stick.

Re: Auto Intersection

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:09:44 GMT

I tried creating a new WE in AC19 and restart AC and create a new project with it and indeed it doesn't seem to stay deactivated.

Re: Auto Intersection

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:29:51 GMT

I think the state of On-Screen View Options (including the Clean Wall & Beam Intersections toggle) is a Project-specific setting, not a Work Environment settings.

But this also means that it should be saved with the Project and its state should be remembered by ARCHICAD when it later reopens the file.
So if that does not happen then it may be a bug.

I tried it and it works for me.

You can try one thing: since it is a Project-specific setting, every time you start a new Project it will start it based on the Project settings stored in the Template file you choose for your new project. So in theory you could open the Template file, change this setting, then resave the Template file under the same name.
From there on new Projects file based on that Template file should have this toggle turned off by default.

Re: Auto Intersection

Erwin Edel — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:30:14 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
I think the state of On-Screen View Options (including the Clean Wall & Beam Intersections toggle) is a Project-specific setting, not a Work Environment settings.

But this also means that it should be saved with the Project and its state should be remembered by ARCHICAD when it later reopens the file.
So if that does not happen then it may be a bug.

I tried it and it works for me.

You can try one thing: since it is a Project-specific setting, every time you start a new Project it will start it based on the Project settings stored in the Template file you choose for your new project. So in theory you could open the Template file, change this setting, then resave the Template file under the same name.
From there on new Projects file based on that Template file should have this toggle turned off by default.

I do not mean the on screen view connections, I mean the feature Auto Intersection, that automatically intersects reference lines of walls (and possibly beams, I don't use that tool too much) by extending or shortening them as needed. I prefer to draw the reference lines as I want them to be (sometimes I do not want them to connect as it leads to unwanted results in 3D), so I keep turning it off. Every day again.

Re: Auto Intersection

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:46:30 GMT

I see, you mean the Options\Auto Intersection menu option.
I think that is also supposed to be a setting that is saved with a Project, not a setting that is saved with the Work Environment.
But I tried both and it seems to me that it is not saved with either.

So this is probably a bug that the state of the Auto Intersection toggle is not saved with the Project.
I will report this to GRAPHISOFT.

Re: Auto Intersection

Erwin Edel — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:53:46 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
I see, you mean the Options\Auto Intersection menu option.
I think that is also supposed to be a setting that is saved with a Project, not a setting that is saved with the Work Environment.
But I tried both and it seems to me that it is not saved with either.

So this is probably a bug that the state of the Auto Intersection toggle is not saved with the Project.
I will report this to GRAPHISOFT.

Thanks Laszlo

Re: Auto Intersection

DGSketcher — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:16:49 GMT

I can confirm it is the same on the Mac although I can't find anything in AC help to explain the option!

Are you perhaps looking for the legacy intersection toggle in Project Preferences which does stick (on Mac) and basically turns off Priority Based Connections?
http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-19-int-reference-guide/user-interface-reference-2/dialog-boxes/project-preferences-dialog-boxes/legacy-preferences/

Not sure if turning it off is a good thing at this stage, I can see how it might help with some of the more frustrating complex connections but I do like things done for me which seems to work well most of the time.

Re: Auto Intersection

Erwin Edel — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:30:07 GMT

No, as clarified I mean the Options > Auto Intersection button.

It makes reference lines of walls automatically connect to existing reference lines of other walls if you draw close to them.

Re: Auto Intersection

Katalin Borszeki — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:35:45 GMT

Dear all,
This option should be stored in the file. We added a bug about this phenomenon and we plan to fix this in a future ARCHICAD19 Update.

Re: Auto Intersection

Llian — Sat, 28 May 2016 18:17:34 GMT

My Option/Intersection is checked but I am still seeing my walls don't intersect.

Re: Auto Intersection

Llian — Sat, 28 May 2016 18:32:56 GMT

I resolved my own issue...I cleaned up my wall types.