topic Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing? in Modeling

why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:13:47 GMT

i'm having trouble keeping my guide lines from disappearing. the first time it happened, i realized that my guide line was simply toggled off. i switched it back on and my guide lines came back.

however soon after they were off again, and none of my settings appeared to be different. i checked through archicad help to no avail and finally had to result to closing and restarting the program. upon opening my guide lines started appearing again, but less than 5 minutes later they were gone again.

does anyone have any idea as to why this could be happening? i don't seem to be doing any out of the ordinary command that would be causing the guide lines to stop showing up.

thanks!

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

__archiben — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:53:43 GMT

lschneider wrote:
does anyone have any idea as to why this could be happening? i don't seem to be doing any out of the ordinary command that would be causing the guide lines to stop showing up.

guide lines can be toggled on and off with a single key shortcut. check what it is and see if you're hitting that key inadvertently whilst working . . .

~/archiben

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:00:39 GMT

thanks ben - but i'm afraid thats not the case. when i notice the guide lines are gone i go through all my settings and everything still shows that guide lines should showing up. (archicad help says that there are multiple ways to change your guide lines settings and all three of these ways tell me that the guide lines are on).

thanks though!

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Dennis Lee — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:36:20 GMT

Let me guess...

AC11?
Windows XP?

If yes, then it might have something to do w/ direct x settings. probably the "feedback" portion of this article:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/2D_speed?highlight=%282d%29%7C%28speed%29

If the above page doesn't help you, maybe turning direct x off may be the only temporary solution...

http://www.archicadwiki.com/DirectX?highlight=%28x%29%7C%28direct%29

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:20:52 GMT

SO I ALSO FOLLOWED ALL OTHER SUGGESTIONS, AND CHECKED EVERYTHING I COULD THINK OF. DID lschneider EVER GET IT STRAIGHT. I AM USING A MAC, AND THE ONLY WAY I CAN GET AROUND THIS ISSUE IS BY CLOSING THE FILE AND RE-OPENING IT. BUT RECENTLY THAT HAS GOTTEN OUT OF HAND AS WELL. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:40:55 GMT

When you say they keep disappearing, do you mean when they are still blue, before you stroke along them to confirm, or after? They wont stay for long unless you 'confirm' them by turning them orange. Even then they only remain until you have finished a particular function before vanishing. If they didn't you would end up with thousands all over the screen!

If you wanted a more permanent guide line, perhaps just use a normal line, then delete or turn off when finished.

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:46:18 GMT

I UNDERSTAND. SO I FIGURED OUT THAT IT IS NOT "GUIDE LINES" IT IS THE BLACK LINE THAT IS CONNECTED TO THE CURSOR WHEN IN A COMMAND. THE DIRECTIONAL LINE THAT DISPLAYS WHERE YOUR CURSOR IS GOING. IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS. I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT THIS LINE.

ANY THOUGHTS

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:57:00 GMT

Could you post a screen shot of what is (or isn't) happening. I'm not sure exactly what line you are refering to.

This is what it looks like when I draw a line. (A little pencil icon also appears at the end, but this is not copyed in a screen shot.)

Is yours similar?

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:10:13 GMT

EXACTLY, THE SCREEN SHOT IS VERY HELPFULL. THE BLACK LINE ON THE SCREEN SHOT. FOR EXAMPLE. IF YOU SELECT POLYLINE, AND CLICK THE FIRST TIME, A PENCIL SHOWS UP WITH THE BLACK LINE THAT VISUALLY SHOWS YOU WHERE THE CURSOR IS GOING. THEN YOU SECOND CLICK, AND YOU HAVE A LINE. THE BLACK LINE THAT SHOWS UP AFTER YOUR FIRST CLICK, THE BLACK LINE IN YOUR SCREEN SHOT. IT JUST DISAPPEARS AND NO MATTER WHAT COMMAND I SELECT, THE "BLACK" LINE ISN'T THERE. I HAVE TO SAVE AND REOPEN THE DRAWING. BUT NOW ITS HAPPENING MUCH MORE OFTEN.

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:28:17 GMT

I understand your problem now, but sadly I have no idea what causes it. I can see this would be very frustrating! Have you contacted your reseller perhaps.

I don't recall anyone posting anything similar recently so it sounds like a fairly uncommon problem. It may be a config problem specific to your machine perhaps. Have you tried reinstalling AC and then applying the latest updates?

I'm sorry not to be able to help further, maybe someone else has come across this? I hope you sort it out anyway!

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:54:01 GMT

WELL I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. HOPEFULLY SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT HAVE SOME INSIGHT. I HAVE CONTACTED MY TROUBLESHOOTING GUY, AND AM AWAITING A RESPONSE. THANKS AGAIN.

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:54:32 GMT

ANY IDEA WHAT I SHOULD CALL THAT LINE FOR FUTURE INQUIRIES.

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:57:59 GMT

It's happening sometimes, and in my experience a simple quit/restart usually fixes it.

The technical term I believe is rubberbanding (not guide lines), and it happens usually when Archicad and other applications are on for a long time.

It must be some display driver thing.

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:11:57 GMT

Well done Ferenc, I couldn't think of the name!

Doing a search for rubberband brings this up -

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=103201&highlight=rubberband#103201

So clearly it is not a one-off problem, as I stated before (which may be good depending on how you look at it!)

It might be worth checking to see if you have the latest graphics card drivers too, as suggested in the above thread.

Good luck!

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:34:09 GMT

I too have seen this rubber band disappearing for no apparent reason that I have found yet.
The solution that seems to work for me is to generate a 3D view and then switch back to the plan.
Then it works again - for a little while at least.
Barry.

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:10:48 GMT

I have a solution for y'all! (hey for once i really get to contribute!-lol)

Right, no idea what causes it as it happens just out of the blue... can't reproduce it... but I have a quick workaround which works for us here.

Go to the 3d window and come back to your plan. The rubberband will re-appear. It helps if before you go to 3D you select a single wall, or other element, so you don't spend time waiting for the thing to re-build.

HTH

Re: why do GUIDE LINES keep disappearing?

Tom Krowka — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:01:26 GMT

I've had the same problem. I contacted Graphisoft tech support, they sent me to a link to clean preferences.

Here is a link to the article with instructions for performing a preferences cleaning procedure

http://www.archicadwiki.com/PreferencesCleaning

Make sure you export your work environment before you do this. if you have a custom WE and haven't saved it, this process will delete it. Import it when you reopen AC.

It worked for me.....but don't know why it happened in the first place.

Tom