topic Re: It Can't Be !!!! (zooming in ACX ) in Modeling

It Can't Be !!!! (zooming in ACX )

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:08:15 GMT

Hello all,

Just working thru my first project in ACX, and on the whole, I am enjoying the changes, despite having to learn a whole new set of keyboard shortcuts: Shift F2 and Ctrl F2 for changing stories instead of the Ctrl 5 and 6, etc etc

And I really like the integration of Plotmaker into ACX, and even MORE, the fact that when you want to line up two layouts on a sheet, Archicad now "feels" the actual drawing itself, and not only the layout border, which is a great improvement.......

However, I can't believe that the old zoom- in method, where one hits Ctrl-/ and then picks the two opposite corners of a box around where you want to go, IS GONE !!!?????

I understand that now zooming in is done by pointing the cursor to the centerpoint of where you want to go, and using the mousewheel to zoom in, but besides being a sure recipe for carpal tunnel syndrome, what was wrong with the old way ???

Naftali

ACX WinXP Home etc.

Re: It Can't Be !!!! (zooming in ACX )

TomWaltz — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:41:31 GMT

The keyboard shortcut might be gone, but the icon is still on every Archicad window

Re: It Can't Be !!!! (zooming in ACX )

Dwight — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:12:08 GMT

Sometimes you don't know what you have until it is gone.

Someone should write a song about that.

If you really like the "/" zoom in method, re-establish it with a keyboard shortcut. I find that on Mac, however, it is not as reliable as it used to be, with occasional zooming out, instead. Duh.

I play a lot with shortcuts. I even made a shortcut for the keyboard shortcut dialog.

It is worth studying the command list and deriving your own shortcuts....

Re: It Can't Be !!!! (zooming in ACX )

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:50:05 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Sometimes you don't know what you have until it is gone.

Someone should write a song about that.

If you really like the "/" zoom in method, re-establish it with a keyboard shortcut. I find that on Mac, however, it is not as reliable as it used to be, with occasional zooming out, instead. Duh.
.

thanks Dwight (and Tom)

Dwight, your sense of humor is like a breath of fresh air !

The first time I looked in the Customize Shortcuts dialog box, before I kvetched about this, I couldn't find it, but after your post, I looked again and finally found it when I went to Commands by theme option.

Naftali

Re: It Can't Be !!!! (zooming in ACX )

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:35:47 GMT

What a relief to be able to reassign this keyboard shortcut. I didn't think it was possible because it wasn't listed (File Menu > View > Zoom). Thnx Dwight! Now I can simply toggle between 'previous view' and 'zoom in'...very fast method for working. Wish I read this one back in November when it was posted.

here is a step by step:

Options > Work Environment > Keyboard ShortCuts

Instead of:
'List: "Current Menu Structure" '
change to:
'List: "All Commands in Alphabetical Order" '

then scroll down as Dwight shows....to 'Zoom In'

Click the 'text window' labled 'Click here and press desired shortcut keys:' and press 'command /' on your keyboard... click on 'Assign', click 'ok', your done.