topic Re: Evoking Distance guide in Modeling

Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:09:09 GMT

Is there a way I can evoke distance guides? It sometimes pops up, sometimes it does not!

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Sequoia

Re: Evoking Distance guide

CosminF — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:25:26 GMT

Hi,

Make sure that:
1. They are turned on - Options - Work environment - More options - Experimental features - Enable Distance Guides.
2. They are toggled on, you can add the toggle on the toolbar: https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/27/INT/_AC27_Help/030_Interaction/030_Interaction-65.htm

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:25:14 GMT

I am using Archicad 28. it has the feature inbuilt and should be working properly. I have distance guide is enabled but very un predictable.

Thanks

Niranjan

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:32:23 GMT

If they are active, it depends on how far you zoom in or out.

The elements the guides snap to have to be visible on the screen.

If you still have trouble, show an image of your distance guide settings, or even better a short video of the problem.

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:44:48 GMT

Check these screenshots. Same zoom. I don't see a distance guide when I grab the WC or a particular wall but another wall is showing up the guide.

Also attaching the screenshot of settings

Thanks Niranjan

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:48:10 GMT

I would suspect that that wall is not exactly vertical.

If the walls are at a slight angle, the distance guides will not lock to them.

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:46:40 GMT

Its 90 ! dont know whats wrong!

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:55:23 GMT

Also the other objects. They too dont show the guide when moved.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:13:49 GMT

That wall may be vertical but then the others are not.

They all need to be perfectly square to each other.

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:42:36 GMT

All are perpendicular. Windows and doors also not showing up the guides! Something wrong with the file it seems. I made a new file with default template and current profile and its showing up. I copied the elements and pasted it in the new file and it has problem!

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:29:22 GMT

@Niranjan Das Sharma wrote:

I made a new file with default template and current profile and its showing up. I copied the elements and pasted it in the new file and it has problem!

If the new file shows guides OK and then you copy those elements across and the guides don't work on them, then there is something wrong with those elements.

All I can think of is that they are not perfectly square to each other.

Or maybe it is a polygon wall rather than a regular wall?

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:34:32 GMT

Its a normal wall and are perfectly square. Can i send the file to you?

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:39:05 GMT

Sure.

Save it to a transfer site and post the link, or send me the link in a private message if you don't want others to have access.

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:40:43 GMT

Thanks a ton. I will send it across.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:09:21 GMT

Strange one that I have not come across before.

There is a slab around the building.

If I delete it or move it out of the way, the distance guides work.

Or change its layer and turn that layer off (it is the same layer as the walls at the moment).

But now the question is, why does it not affect all walls inside the slab area?

They appear to be identical walls.

I don't have an answer for this.

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:12:38 GMT

There is something about a slab that is making certain walls be ignored by the distance guides.

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:16:00 GMT

Glad you figured out the issue! is this a bug? Will archicad do something?

Thank you

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:21:08 GMT

It is the slab cover fill that is affecting it.

Turn it off and it all works as expected.

Except for the objects, I can't get them to have distance guides.

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Barry Kelly — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:48:30 GMT

The cover fill I would think is a bug, but I have not used distance guides enough to know for sure.

I would have to read up about them and see if there is anything in the documentation that mentions this.

I don't recall anything in Beta testing.

I am not really using 28 at the moment and probably would not use the distance guides a lot anyway.

I am a bit old school and find them more annoying than helpful.

And if I do use them I never use cover fills on my slabs, which is why I have never noticed this.

Having said this, I just tried my template with walls and objects on a slab with cover fills, and it all works perfectly.

You seem to have old objects (version 16) in your file so maybe it is an old file that is causing the issues.

I just did an 'open & repair' on your file and it made no difference.

I think I would be sending this off to your local support and see what they have to say.

Barry.

Re: Evoking Distance guide

Niranjan Das Sharma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:57:48 GMT

I am relatively a new user. just learning. I started with version 27 an year back. Dont know how the old objects came in. My be some files or templates from net. I will inform the local support and see what they can do.

Thank you Barry for your time and support.

Niranjan