topic Select & Activate tool shortcut.. in Modeling

Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:53:42 GMT

Hello everyone

I use Archicad 11 for all my projects. I was wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut for the "Select & Activate Tool" instead of right click and selecting it.

I know that for instance, if I select a slab, than I can click on the edge of the slab to activate the toll, but life would be easier with a keyboard shortcut because it is not always easy to select that point in the slab/wall/whatever..

I'm sure others are interested in this too!
Thanx a lot.

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:55:36 GMT

You can type the shortcut for that tool and AFAIK is does the same thing.

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:06:28 GMT

Could you explain please??
thnx for the reply..

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:21:57 GMT

Once you have selected an item, clicking on its "type" icon or using its shortcut accomplishes the same as right clicking and choosing the "select and activate" option.

For example selecting a slab and then clicking on the slab icon to edit a border will tell AC to "ignore" the wall that overlaps the same border of the slab that you want to edit.

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:32:17 GMT

Thank you for the reply...really quick

I see what you mean now, I just select the slab, select the slab tool on the left, and click on the slab once more. Thats much better than before, thank you for your help

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Brad Elliott — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:45:44 GMT

As far as I know you can not create a keyboard shortcut for the Select & Activate contextual item. I could be missing something though.

I think that a single click and quarter inch drag is faster than click and keyboard but I suppose it would be nice to have the option. It seems like they have made every other command keyboardable.

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Rick Thompson — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:12:42 GMT

What works best for me is to option click (mac) the slab (or whatever).. that picks up the parameters, and activated the tool. Very quick. That does not work well for the label tool since it picks up the text as "default", then you have to delete that text. I find the quicker than using the contextual menu.

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:34:30 GMT

i use the 'toggle active tool with arrow' keyboard shortcut religiously. It'll take you to the last active tool - which will allow you to edit any model element but it won't help you discriminate overlapping elements of diferent types. The biggest advantage in my mind is that you can leave your cursor over the drawing area that you are editing instead of putting all that mileage back and forth to the docked palette- a big time saver!

This was a standard keyboard shortcut when i fist started back on AC7. At some point I had to start adjusting my work environment to include it.

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Link — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:04:36 GMT

If you have 'Quick Selection' (the magnet icon) turned on, then once it is selected, Alt clicking anyway inside the elements contours will automatically activate the tool, no?

So if you have 'Highlight element contours before selection' checked in the 'Selection and Element Information' panel of your Work Environment, then you can use tab to toggle between preselected items, then alt click to activate it.

So in essence, Alt (click) is the keyboard shortcut.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Select & Activate tool shortcut..

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:50:50 GMT

Thank you all very much guys.. it all makes sence now