topic Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable in Modeling

Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

furtonb — Thu, 02 May 2024 02:07:24 GMT

Hi,

I don't know if anyone else experiences this, but this is driving me mad:

1) Go to the layer manager, and try to resize the columns (visibility, wireframe, name, extension, intersection groups, etc.)

2) I cannot grab the vertical (red in my screenshot below) bars and resize the columns, occasionally I can click on one edge of the "Name" column.

3) A "cosmetic issue", but the columns themselves do not line up with the red bars (see the highlighted last two for example).

4) A serious problem is the complete inability to work with intersection groups: which ones are matching? I have no idea, because I need to click on each field to display the number at full length. I received this file and I have to understand how it is set up, because I need to deliver some renderings and the intersection groups are clearly wrong. I can't see what's going on, selecting multiple rows only show the first item.

5) All my AC27 files are behaving like this, not specific to particular files.

Screenshot:

Seriously what:

All of the highlighted items are "700" not "7":

M1 Max MBP, macOS Ventura 13.6.4., AC27 INT b5003

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Ventura 13.6.4

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:35:18 GMT

The name column is the only column that can be resized.

All of them can be moved, so you can have them in the order you want.

The intersection group column should be wide enough for 3 numbers - in fact I can show 5 numbers in mine.

I always thought that was limited from 0 - 99 - I must have been imagining that!

Having said that, I am on Windows, so another MAC user will need to test your issue.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

furtonb — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:13:00 GMT

On my PC it shows up to 5 digits (99999 is the highest I can get).

I don't know why it shrunk to show this few digits, but that is issue nr.1 here, the other is the mismatch between the column "headers" and the actual columns (in your screenshot it is aligned - as it should be) is nr.2 here.

I can't reset this by changing the work environment to the default and I can't solve this by changing my screen resolution either – I'm out of ideas.

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

vlahtinen — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:59:07 GMT

Not sure if this helps, but have you tried a new file with the default template that's shipped with Archicad? I'm wondering if there's some kind of problem with your template.

We're also using Mac with Apple Silicon and Ventura and I haven't seen the problem before.

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

furtonb — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:09:27 GMT

Multiple files are affected, regardless of their source.

This looks more like a UI bug (maybe rearranging the columns messed up the column width assignments, that I can’t force to reset?)

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:36:59 GMT

If it is all files on just this MAC machine, then only solutions I can think of are a preference clean.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Preferences-Cleaning/ta-p/303676

Or a complete re-install of Archicad.

i.e. run original installer (it will ask you to repair original installation), install goodies if you want them and then update with latest hotfix.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

furtonb — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:03:23 GMT

Let me resurrect this thread, the same UI glitch is happening with AC28 (macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 (24E263), M1 Max MBP) too.

I have nuked the preferences for AC28 as described in the linked thread.

Note: AC28 was a clean install otherwise. I had AC27 on this machine, which I didn't remove before installing it.

Layer intersection numbers are not shown to their proper width and I can't change the order of them (the black panning hand displays and disappears):

Other UI parts are affected: for example, finding building materials for walls or slabs is proving to be a challenge, the ID columns are off the screen and I can't resize:

I have just bumped the AC28 install to the latest available.

Any ideas on how to make this usable without wiping all installed Archicad instances?

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

Barry Kelly — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:20:43 GMT

I think someone on a Mac running Sequoia will have to test this.

I am not seeing an issue on Windows.

Can see up to 5 numbers in layer dialogue (this can not be stretched).

And building material for walls resizes based on the length of the name with the ID still showing.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

furtonb — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:27:26 GMT

My Windows machine worked fine the last time I used it (yesterday).

I have access to my MBP now, as my PC is not so mobile.

I don't intend to go Windows-only for the time being.

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

furtonb — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 04:54:43 GMT

FYI, removing all Archicad preferences (corresponding to every installed instance) solved it – removing only the AC28-related files did not.

Re: Archicad 27 Layer Manager column width - unusable

Barry Kelly — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 05:16:20 GMT

That is strange, but glad it worked for you.

I would not have thought to do that and can't really understand why it would have worked.

Barry.