topic Re: "locking object" ? in Modeling

"locking object" ?

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:18:55 GMT

I am working on creating a siteplan (for a development), in which I had a third party company draw a preliminary design for me, I've taken their DWG file and imported it into ArchiCAD, and then taken a scan of their colourized print and overlayed it so I can see what's going on in more detail, to make a long storey short, is there any way to make a figure unselectable, so I'm not constantly wearing clicking on the figure when I'm doing things like draging a selection marquee, etc..

cheers
dan

Re: "locking object" ?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:10:47 GMT

Alone on a lock layer…

Re: "locking object" ?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:35:22 GMT

maybe a bit too simple

cheers,
dan

Re: "locking object" ?

TomWaltz — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:40:10 GMT

Daniel wrote:
I am working on creating a siteplan (for a development), in which I had a third party company draw a preliminary design for me, I've taken their DWG file and imported it into ArchiCAD, and then taken a scan of their colourized print and overlayed it so I can see what's going on in more detail, to make a long storey short, is there any way to make a figure unselectable, so I'm not constantly wearing clicking on the figure when I'm doing things like draging a selection marquee, etc..

cheers
dan

Select it. Tools > Lock will loc that element, regardless of layer settings.

Re: "locking object" ?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:48:03 GMT

Yeess

It is great, I learn every day.
I had never paid attention to this function.

Re: "locking object" ?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:51:11 GMT

hmmm maybe I was righ tin my sarcasm.... neither of these options actually work, the object is still selectable, just not changable, I want to make it so that you cannot select the object at all... is there something simple im missing again or something else all together.

cheers,
dan

Re: "locking object" ?

Djordje — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:10:10 GMT

Daniel wrote:
hmmm maybe I was righ tin my sarcasm.... neither of these options actually work, the object is still selectable, just not changable, I want to make it so that you cannot select the object at all... is there something simple im missing again or something else all together.

Nothing will happen to it even if it shows selection dots.

Put it on a different storey and use Ghost.

Re: "locking object" ?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:18:40 GMT

Djordje wrote:
Put it on a different storey and use Ghost.

Does Ghost works with figure ?

Re: "locking object" ?

Djordje — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:22:58 GMT

Fmr wrote:
Djordje wrote:
Put it on a different storey and use Ghost.
Does Ghost works with figure ?

Yep; by default it shows only a placeholder.

Re: "locking object" ?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:24:20 GMT

Daniel,
Do you use "Magnet selection"?
If you disabled this kind of selection, the figure can only be selected by their hotspots.

Re: "locking object" ?

Aussie John — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:04:04 GMT

Make an Object Library part!!
Copy the file into an object's 2D view. Make sure there are no hotspots in the 2d view.
Place back into plan. It will only have hotspots in the corners and the centre and is only selectable by click on a hotspot regardless of the magnetic option. Lock it to be doubly sure.
If you are happy to loose the layers you can do this with the DWG too and no more pesky lines selecting when you drag selecting something else.

Re: "locking object" ?

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:01:21 GMT

Fmr wrote:
Daniel,
Do you use "Magnet selection"?
If you disabled this kind of selection, the figure can only be selected by their hotspots.

aha! Totally overlooked that option... it works perfectly for what I'm trying to do, thanks a load

Aussie wrote:
Make an Object Library part!!
Copy the file into an object's 2D view. Make sure there are no hotspots in the 2d view.
Place back into plan. It will only have hotspots in the corners and the centre and is only selectable by click on a hotspot regardless of the magnetic option. Lock it to be doubly sure.

Didn't even think of that method, I'll have to consider that option in the future

cheers,
dan