topic Re: Stop Section Generating in Modeling

Stop Section Generating

Brett Brown — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:36:25 GMT

Hi, What if any key stops the section etc generating in AC 11?

Re: Stop Section Generating

Dwight — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:18:23 GMT

The "off" key?

Re: Stop Section Generating

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:30:38 GMT

Ha, I read that as "What if...?" rather than "what, ...if any...?"

Re: Stop Section Generating

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:08:59 GMT

you can set the section to manual rebuild..is this what you mean?

Re: Stop Section Generating

Link — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:09:38 GMT

Cmd/ctrl+. is supposed to do it, but good luck with all THAT. Nothing seems to be very reliable apart from Dwight's suggestion, but that tends to wreak havoc with that unsaved Spec you've been working on too.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Stop Section Generating

Brett Brown — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:49:08 GMT

Hi, Thanks for that Link. I did a search before I posted and found the ctrl+ from 2 years ago but it doesn't work. I have the progress window on but the "stop" rarely works.

Re: Stop Section Generating

Dwight — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:03:11 GMT

Archicad has this problem with several CPU-intensive tasks. It doesn't poll inputs often enough, so merely pressing a command key once doesn't register.

Do it overandover and hope your key input buffer matches a polling instance. The equivalent of:

"STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPYOUIDIOT!!!"

[Note: This is pure speculation and imaginary function on my part. Sort of like the Mayans explaining a solar eclipse as the sun god being eaten and perhaps we should sacrifice a virgin to get it back.]

Re: Stop Section Generating

Link — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:04:35 GMT

Brett wrote:
Hi, Thanks for that Link. I did a search before I posted and found the ctrl+ from 2 years ago but it doesn't work. I have the progress window on but the "stop" rarely works.

Are you sure you're hitting ctrl+. ? Don't forget the "." (fullstop/period) and don't forget to do it 9357 times...

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Stop Section Generating

Barry Kelly — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:50:41 GMT

Link wrote:
Brett wrote:
Hi, Thanks for that Link. I did a search before I posted and found the ctrl+ from 2 years ago but it doesn't work. I have the progress window on but the "stop" rarely works.
Are you sure you're hitting ctrl+. ? Don't forget the "." (fullstop/period) and don't forget to do it 9357 times...

Cheers,
Link.

And it's not the "+" key either.
It is just the "CTRL" and "." keys together.
Barry.

Re: Stop Section Generating

Brett Brown — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:58:23 GMT

Thanks again Link, I should read more carefully. Now its working. I usually have sections set to manual rebuild, but with that setting it somehow unchecks the "label" in window and doors. So am getting sick of continually rechecking the label back on again. Have reported it to local support and they confirmed it, but it wasn't fixed in latest hotfix. Hope they relayed the bug to headquarters.

Re: Stop Section Generating

Brett Brown — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:08:54 GMT

Thanks Barry, saved a keystroke.

Re: Stop Section Generating

__archiben — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:37:09 GMT

Link wrote:
... and don't forget to do it 9357 times...

this is actually the fundamental part of getting it working. hold down the Cmd (apple) or Ctrl (Windows) key and repeatedly hit the period (.) key in quick succession until it stops.

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