topic Extending walls using typed input in Modeling

Extending walls using typed input

D_BRANDT — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:13:20 GMT

Is it somehow possible to extend e.g. a wall only typing the length you want to extend the wall?
As I see it all you can type is the total length of the wall

Coming from Autocad, so not an expert in Archicad yet 😉

David

Re: Extending walls using typed input

Barry Kelly — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:33:16 GMT

There are a few posts here discussing how to do this.
Here is one ... https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=61911&p=284720&hilit=extend+tracker#p284720

If you use imperial units there is a trick when subtracting as the minus is also a feet/inches separator.
This post should explain that ... https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32565&p=170531&hilit=extend+imperial#p170531

Barry.

Re: Extending walls using typed input

D_BRANDT — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:00:46 GMT

Thanks Berry!
Not a perfect solution but it works

Re: Extending walls using typed input

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 15:15:07 GMT

When you select the end node (corner) of your wall just hit “x”, Enter the distance and hit Enter. Just like in AutoCAD... almost.

You don’t need to start dragging in order to achieve this.
Works in “y” direction as well.

Re: Extending walls using typed input

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 15:27:41 GMT

I've found that the old timer experts on this forum or even experts with YouTube tutorials often don’t use these simple baked in methods of extending walls or drawing any item at an exact or relative location by using the x, y, or d or even a shortcuts.
I still see seasoned veterans drawing a line a certain distance then dragging a wall to snap to the end of that line and then deleting the unnecessary line.
Way to much work and less accurate. I only assume they learned these bad habits from a time when Archicad didn’t have these other more efficient methods.

Because I’m an absolute rookie and actually went through the beginner and intermediate courses on Archicad’s YouTube channel I learnt these good habits...but I’m still struggling with more advanced and seemingly endless features of this software.