topic Re: Anyone using Hotspots? in Modeling

Anyone using Hotspots?

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:18:20 GMT

Hi all

Just trying to get an idea of what people are using the hotspot tool for, if anything? Seems like a bit of a legacy tool, but I just wonder if I'm missing something good?

Hunter.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Djordje — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:19:43 GMT

Hunter wrote:
Hi all

Just trying to get an idea of what people are using the hotspot tool for, if anything? Seems like a bit of a legacy tool, but I just wonder if I'm missing something good?

Hunter.

Any reference point that you need that does not exist on an element

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:49:01 GMT

I find that using the hotspot tool with the Profile Manager helps alot.

I added a picture to try and explain what i mean. Hope it helps.
You can also use this to make extra hotspot on gdl objects that you have created.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Laura Yanoviak — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:00:46 GMT

Djordje wrote:
Any reference point that you need that does not exist on an element

Yep.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:52:16 GMT

@cecilia

Nice information.
You are so beautiful.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:46:26 GMT

Nice screenshots and examples, Cecilia!

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:59:48 GMT

Yes, thank you all, especially Cecilia with the beautiful image. (Easy there 77 - down boy! )

So on my list I have:

1. Create nodes where no node currently exists;
2. Create nodes in a complex profile;
3. Create insertion points when saving a 2D library part;

Can anyone think of anything else the hotspot tool is useful for?

Thanks again.

Hunter.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:03:31 GMT

Hunter wrote:
Yes, thank you all, especially Cecilia with the beautiful image. (Easy there 77 - down boy! )

So on my list I have:

1. Create nodes where no node currently exists;
2. Create nodes in a complex profile;
3. Create insertion points when saving a 2D library part;

Can anyone think of anything else the hotspot tool is useful for?

Thanks again.

Hunter.

well not so advanced method , but i use it if i want to count things , for example parking lots ( not done by archicad objects - so find and select is not helpful , or any thing similar to that ) i use hot spots i just spread it , then i select all and check the number , and the good thing is even if i forgot it .. it will not be printed .

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:47:05 GMT

Hunter wrote:
Yes, thank you all, especially Cecilia with the beautiful image. (Easy there 77 - down boy! )

So on my list I have:

1. Create nodes where no node currently exists;
2. Create nodes in a complex profile;
3. Create insertion points when saving a 2D library part;

Can anyone think of anything else the hotspot tool is useful for?

Thanks again.

Hunter.

I use them as mentioned and also when I want to line up 2 or more layouts on top of each other.
Its not so critical now in version 10 and 11 where the layout drawings have active points just like in the model.
In previous versions only the hotspot in the model would be an active point in layouts.
Even now in 10 & 11 it is easier to just throw a hotspot on the plan in the Archicad layer, then any layer combination saved as a view can be used as a drawing in the layouts and easily lined up with any other plan drawing.
Could be used on elevations as well if need be.

Barry.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:50:58 GMT

Hey there...

Yes i totaly forgot it does not print, you can use hotspots for refrencing anything. nice tip on counting parking lots, i will remember that one.

Oh and Archi User 77 thanx for the compliment.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:28:40 GMT

another one which is created by ArchiCAD is when hot spots are generated to show u an intersection point of two elements without actually getting them intersected . mmm .. not that clear ... here is a pic

lets say we have a wall , and a line and u want to see where these 2 elements intersect without stretching any ... select the wall and activate any other tool ( any tool except for wall tool ) then ( ctrl+ click the line ) , not that important because now we have guide lines

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Brad Elliott — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:17:35 GMT

Similar to Barry I also put them on my Master Layout as a registration point for my plans so they are all located in the exact same place on the sheet. Wandering plans in a set of drawings is a pet peeve of mine.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Djordje — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:16:18 GMT

whatever wrote:
another one which is created by ArchiCAD is when hot spots are generated to show u an intersection point of two elements without actually getting them intersected . mmm .. not that clear ... here is a pic
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not that important because now we have guide lines

That stay on forever and can be referenced at any time?

Forget the fashion ... know the roots.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:35:47 GMT

Besides all of the layout uses, I have used them for my cut sheets that our company creates. I have tragically found that if I dimension to a point on a wall (window for example) and for whatever reason that window changes, Things disappear, and then I gotta start over . Using hot spots allows me to make static dimensions that are not truly static. I just have to double-check that my hot spots are correct, but that is a small price to pay compared to losing a whole wall worth of work . I included a screen shot of this as an example. I have a hot spot at each opening and at The log wall corners.

Re: Anyone using Hotspots?

Ignacio Azpiazu — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:38:14 GMT

Similar to the use of hotspots in objects, I use them to show the origin and any other reference point in modules.

In modules you can send them together with the module geometry to the A-ANNO-GEOM layer, so as to make them show only while placing the modules or checking overall project geometry.