topic Re: Odd screen behaviour in Modeling

Odd screen behaviour

rjwilden — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:38:14 GMT

Has any one else encountered this problem.
When moving from 3D to floor plan the screen divides the plan into two parts one frozen the other you can pan and zoom as normal. I can get back to default by going to full screen, but it is annoying.
Hopefully the screen shot is attached

Richard

Re: Odd screen behaviour

ci-JoshOs — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:45:18 GMT

It looks like a driver issue.
What kind of Graphics card do you have and does it have the latest drivers?

Re: Odd screen behaviour

rjwilden — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:45:01 GMT

Using a radeon X700se.. No I haven't got the latest driver; The guy I deal with tells me that its not just a matter of going to graphic card properties and hitting upgrade. According to him it wont get the drivers That I need; is that right??
Computer salesmen fall into the category of used car sales and insurance. unfortunately I'm at there mercy; knowing no better.

Richard

Re: Odd screen behaviour

ci-JoshOs — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:32:04 GMT

You can get the latest drivers for your card here:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=293
You want to get the Catalyst 6.7 drivers for XP, make sure you get the 'Display Driver Only' package at least.

Re: Odd screen behaviour

rjwilden — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:16:02 GMT

Thanks for that
I installed it and everything seems to be running a bit quicker. It will take some time to find out if it fixed the original problem.

Richard

Re: Odd screen behaviour

rjwilden — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:19:13 GMT

I spoke to soon. The origonal problem is back.

Richard

Re: Odd screen behaviour

rjwilden — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:26:51 GMT

A further additional problem after this error has occurred ; As you stretch the marquee tool it wont show the dashed line. It only appears after you mouse click the second time ???? hard to see where your placing the box.
The only way to rectify this is to resatrt Archicad.
Richard

Re: Odd screen behaviour

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:04:39 GMT

rjwilden wrote:
A further additional problem after this error has occurred ; As you stretch the marquee tool it wont show the dashed line. It only appears after you mouse click the second time ???? hard to see where your placing the box.
The only way to rectify this is to resatrt Archicad.
Richard

I saw a similar problem at a client's office recently, only it was the rubber band line while drawing that wasn't showing up. Updating the video drivers fixed it in their case. I don't recall what card they have.

Re: Odd screen behaviour

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:52:22 GMT

I posted a similar problem here, back in March. This happen while using AC9, I have not used AC10 that much yet to test the problem there.

Since March I have noticed that the problem only occurs then I have 2 Sessions of AC opened. One of the sessions inevitably starts "mis-behaving". That session can be closed, and the other session remains "un-harmed". Yet the only way to get a "clean" new Session is to close out all sessions of AC and restart, as has been stated previously.

Re: Odd screen behaviour

rjwilden — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:14:35 GMT

Jay

Can you tell me if you use any Cadimage products. Im trying to nail down exactly whats on the screen when this happens; last one was cadimage roof tool. I removed it from the library and didn't have problems thereafter. I'm not placing the blame here just going to keep an eye on it.

Richard.

Re: Odd screen behaviour

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:36:32 GMT

I own the 3D Profiler. Mostly purchased it for producing Roof fascia for residential homes. It has proven too difficult to work with, so we have "gone-back" to just using AC roofs to model fascia.

So the answer is I do not actually use any Cadimage products.

Re: Odd screen behaviour

rjwilden — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:12:01 GMT

This happens if you click to 2D within 0.5 sec after finishing orbiting. 3D model rebuild is suspended for 0.5 sec to avoid unnecessary rebuild in case you do continue orbiting. So, please do keep a 0.5 sec gap before you click to floorplan.

So its a BUG!, thanks for the timely answer Graphisoft. Could of saved me a lot of time trying to find a non existent solution.

Richard

Re: Odd screen behaviour

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:43:48 GMT

No, Richard, its not a bug, its a FEATURE!

Re: Odd screen behaviour

rjwilden — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:25:44 GMT

With spin like that you should become a politician.

Richard