topic Re: Trace Reference Palette in Modeling

Trace Reference Palette

dhurd — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:38:21 GMT

Can anyone help me get the Trace Reference Palette active again? I must have hid it at sometime in the last 20 years and want to see if I can adjust a setting. Shouldn't it be in this dropdown? V25 on PC.

Thanks for the help.

Re: Trace Reference Palette

Christophe Fortineau — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:51:36 GMT

Hello,

Did you check into view menu ?

Re: Trace Reference Palette

dhurd — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:16:16 GMT

Nothing about trace in the view menu for me.

Re: Trace Reference Palette

Mahmoud Qenawi — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:22:37 GMT

@dhurd , just right click on the view in the project map or view map and choose show as trace reference that will activate the palette and to show the palette in the standard toolbar there’s icon for trace & reference go down and press on trace and reference to show the palette, and for more see this video:

https://youtu.be/i3yR-J8aqJ0

Re: Trace Reference Palette

dhurd — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:56:47 GMT

That did it! What I was looking for in that palette though was a way to see fills in trace. I draw many fills for framing members, but then I can never see them on trace reference. Is there a trick to that? Background fills show up for text boxes, but not just a straight drawn fill.

Re: Trace Reference Palette

Mahmoud Qenawi — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:10:00 GMT

@dhurd , do you mean this in tip 2?

Re: Trace Reference Palette

dhurd — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:20:22 GMT

Nope, that certainly make the background fill of text blocks transparent, but fills that I have drawn do not show up on trace, the outline doesn't show up, or the fill itself.

Re: Trace Reference Palette

Mahmoud Qenawi — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:29:41 GMT

So you mean this, you can select which elements to show so select fills

Re: Trace Reference Palette

dhurd — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:25:21 GMT

Oh my, that invisible flyout on a palette that has been hidden since the early 2000's. Fills was the only checkbox that wasn't checked. Thank you!!.

Re: Trace Reference Palette

Barry Kelly — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 01:03:56 GMT

Looks like you have a custom Work Environment or an old one you have carried over from previous versions.

You can edit the WE to add the trace & reference command to the Windows > Palettes menu.

Or you can just load the default WE.

If you have an old or custom WE, then any new commands will not be included automatically.

This may not be a new command as such, but some of them have changed over the years and are treated as new commands.

Barry.

Re: Trace Reference Palette

dhurd — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:35:59 GMT

Wow, the tips keep on giving, thanks Barry. That helps a lot. I've been working a custom WE for years and years, so yes a lot of new tools popped up when I loaded the standard one, thank you. Now I'll just get my Workspace Scheme laid out for productivity and hide all the clutter and be racing again. Thanks Team. D.

Re: Trace Reference Palette

Mahmoud Qenawi — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:42:47 GMT

Thanks Barry, I ask and recommend to add this reply as a solution?