topic Re: I guess I missed this too!!!! extending int. elevation in Modeling

I guess I missed this too!!!! extending int. elevation line

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 12:49:26 GMT

WOW with so many new "features" I am not sure how GS will survive!!!! Is there a way to extend an interior elevation line? Man 11 was not ready for release! It shows gross negligence that they even considered releasing it. I am seriously thinking if i should write a letter to get my money back. All the time I have spent today working with ArchiCAd's "features" has been enough to make me want to chuck it out the window!!! I have been with archicad since 5 and worked the program the way archicad recommended. Well with this version, they have tried to accommodate all the cry babies, and made the program a mess! This has got to be the worst release since 8. Remember when we were all duped into buying that one!!!!

Re: I guess I missed this too!!!! extending int. elevation

Barry Kelly — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:46:08 GMT

Shae wrote:
WOW with so many new "features" I am not sure how GS will survive!!!! Is there a way to extend an interior elevation line? Man 11 was not ready for release! It shows gross negligence that they even considered releasing it. I am seriously thinking if i should write a letter to get my money back. All the time I have spent today working with ArchiCAd's "features" has been enough to make me want to chuck it out the window!!! I have been with archicad since 5 and worked the program the way archicad recommended. Well with this version, they have tried to accommodate all the cry babies, and made the program a mess! This has got to be the worst release since 8. Remember when we were all duped into buying that one!!!!

You have to extend the limit lines and not the line with the maker - like you do with the other sections and elevations.
Don't you just love consistency?

There are other bugs with the interior elevation tool (mentioned in other posts).
I still use just the plane section tool.

Barry.

Re: I guess I missed this too!!!! extending int. elevation

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:18:52 GMT

Thanks again Barry. I couldn't get mine to work that way, when I tried to stretch it, it either moved the extents line or it selected the wall I have it against. BTW while we are on the subject, I am always trying to keep up with new methodologies for time savers. I have been exploding my interior elevations copying them down 20 feet and correcting line weights adding text and fills. I was hoping the virtual trace function could help, to use a different methodology. How do you guys do it? I have been doing it like this since AC 5, and it works great, but is this the best way, time wise. Line weights are important. Beautiful city BTW!!!! I wish I was there!

Re: I guess I missed this too!!!! extending int. elevation

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:25:58 GMT

Attached is a section from our BIM manual, which explains our process. It's a bit convoluted, but keeps the Views live and gets us the output we want.

Re: I guess I missed this too!!!! extending int. elevation

Barry Kelly — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:32:32 GMT

Shae wrote:
Thanks again Barry. I couldn't get mine to work that way, when I tried to stretch it, it either moved the extents line or it selected the wall I have it against.

When selecting the elevation line node to move be sure to have the interior elevation tool active.
This will ensure that Archicad doesn't select the wall instead - I find that very annoying when it swaps what you have already selected.

Shae wrote:
BTW while we are on the subject, I am always trying to keep up with new methodologies for time savers. I have been exploding my interior elevations copying them down 20 feet and correcting line weights adding text and fills. I was hoping the virtual trace function could help, to use a different methodology. How do you guys do it? I have been doing it like this since AC 5, and it works great, but is this the best way, time wise. Line weights are important. Beautiful city BTW!!!! I wish I was there!

I don't really have a method for this as we keep all our sections/elevations live.
What you see is what you get.
If we need to thicken any line work we just draw over the live elevation.
Text and dimensions just go straight on top as well.
Generally fills are taken care of by the element or objects materials.
But if needed we will just add extras to the elevation.
But we hardly ever do that - most of our elevations are just a single line weight.

Barry.