topic Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue in Modeling

Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:42:43 GMT

Hi I'm having a few issues with the snap guide tool in ArchiCAD 20 (never had these issues in 19).

ArchiCAD 20 always gives me a snap guide back to the project origin, sometimes a straight angle and sometimes and arbitrary radius guide. I can't think of any use for them and they just get in the way. Is there anyway to turn them off but maintain the rest of the snap guide features? Thanks in advance

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Barry Kelly — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:52:41 GMT

In the tracker options you need to turn on "Relative Co-ordinates in Tracker".

Barry.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 01:14:32 GMT

Thanks for the reply Barry, I already have "Relative Co-ordinates in Tracker" turned on. I have attached 2 images that might make it clearer what I'm talking about.

The snap guide angle back to the project origin seems to always appear, but the snap guide radius around the project origin only sometimes appears.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Barry Kelly — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 02:06:57 GMT

I see what you mean but I have not come across this.
The only time I am seeing a snap guide from the project origin is when I have set a snap reference there (blue circle).
Clearly there is not a snap reference there in your image.

Do you have the latest version of Archicad installed - build 5025?

Barry.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:34:43 GMT

Thanks Barry, latest build has fixed the issue for me. I thought it was a new feature, must have been a bug.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Barry Kelly — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:41:05 GMT

mike_92_aus wrote:
Thanks Barry, latest build has fixed the issue for me. I thought it was a new feature, must have been a bug.

Excellent.
As 20 is the latest release it is a good idea to check regularly for updates.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

marian_sdraila — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 06:49:50 GMT

I've got exactly the same bug in Archicad 23. I hope I won't have to upgrade to AC 26 to fix it.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Barry Kelly — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 07:10:55 GMT

I am not using 23, but I am not seeing any snap guides coming from a user origin or project origin.

Can you post a screen shot of your problem?

That may offer some clues.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

marian_sdraila — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:33:55 GMT

I'm trying to drag a fill on a horizontal path, but when hitting Alt+A the snap guide goes from the point I'm at to the origin, instead of going on the horizontal path that I started.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Barry Kelly — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 05:35:52 GMT

ALT+A is the shortcut for lock angle.

If I start to drag the fill and then press ALT+A, it lock in the direction I am dragging but does not create a guide through the origin.

If I press ALT+A before I drag, then yes I get a snap guide going through the origin.

If you want to drag horizontally you just need to drag and follow the short temporary snap guides.

So long as you stay close to that guide it will snap to it and there is no need to press anything on the keyboard.

If you need to drag horizontally but you need to snap to a point no along that temporary snap guide, you can just hold SHIFT and move you mouse where ever you want.

SHIFT will constrain (lock) to any of the pre-set constraints (horizontal, vertical, 45°).

ALT+A after you start to drag will lock to the exact angle you are stretching - not necessarily horizontal/vertical.

So you are better of to hold SHIFT.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

marian_sdraila — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 07:19:47 GMT

Thanks for the reply, but it seems I didn't make my self understood!

First of all, I know perfectly well what Alt+A, or holding Shift does and I also know in which cases one is better than the other!

What I'm trying to say is that no matter how I do it, every time I hit Alt+A the snap guide goes to the origin!

I don't need a workaround for this! It's a bug and it needs to be fixed!

What I don't understand is why all of a sudden Alt+A stopped working for me?

Maybe is something I did but it can also be a windows update, I guess!

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Barry Kelly — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:34:59 GMT

Well I did check this out in 23 and the only time I get the snap guide going through the origin is if I use ALT+A before I start to drag.

If I do it after I start to drag, it just locks the drag to that direction.

Maybe we are just doing something slightly differently, or you have a setting I am not aware of.

And I was recommending if dragging horizontal, don't use ALT+A, as you may lock slightly of horizontal.

If you are snapping to the horizontal snap guide then you don't need CTRL+A or SHIFT at all.

You never mentioned CTRL+A until a recent post, so I did not even think about it till then.

It is something I have never had the need to use in 20 years+ to drag something horizontally.

Maybe you will need to report this to your local support.

I am unable to replicate the issue and I have tried every setting I can think of.

Maybe make a video of it so they can see what is happening.

Hopefully they can even contact you directly and log into you machine remotely to test.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

marian_sdraila — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:25:17 GMT

I have used Alt+A extensively until it stopped working correctly for me, and I can assure you it is not something I'm doing wrong or differently than what you described! At one point in time, for some reason, it just stopped working the way is supposed to!

And trust me, in certain scenarios it cannot be replaced by just holding shift!

It's not like the command is indispensable but the fact that it's not working, forces me to use more steps to accomplish the same results!

Anyway, thanks for your time!

Re: Archicad 20 Snap Guide Issue

Botonis — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:43:23 GMT

There might be another scenario when snapping is not working correctly and it moves to a point far away which might looks like the origin or user origin, which is related to the 3d cut planes. If there is a 3d cut plane created even if the 3d cut plane mode is off, this might cause snapping problems.

I spent hours trying to snap a shell to create a hole. There was no way until I pressed "Delete All Cut planes".This solved the problem.