topic Morph Tool - lost ability to extrude? in Modeling

Morph Tool - lost ability to extrude?

rob2218 — Tue, 23 May 2023 14:27:47 GMT

so...a fellow co-worker supervisor who uses Archicad extensively has lost the ability to pull/stretch/push the 'morph object' he created.

What could be the cause of this?

it works on "some PLN files", it doesn't work on others.
What variant causes this to occur?

Re: Morph Tool - lost ability to extrude?

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:53:37 GMT

Has he accidentally activated the View\On-Screen View Options\Hidden Morph Geometry toggle?

Re: Morph Tool - lost ability to extrude?

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:01:17 GMT

I also found the below post which explain another cause.

So, basically, here is what can happen:
You are in the 3D Window Settings Dialog, switch to Internal Engine mode and change the Shaded Mode field to "Raster". Then you switch the 3D Engine field back to OpenGL.
The Shaded Mode field becomes greyed since it does not apply in case of OpenGL. However, it is still set to "Raster" and the result is that you cannot edit the Morph with the Pet Palette commands when you click a general face of the Morph. It still works if you click on Morph edges or nodes.
To bring back face editing commands, you have to switch to Internal Engine, set the Shaded Mode field back to "Analytic", then set the Engine back to OpenGL. Then suddenly you are able to edit Morph faces again:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=40009&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=10

I think this is a bug: ArchiCAD still takes into consideration the value of the Shading Mode field even when you use OpenGL. It should not, it should assume it is set to "Analytic".

Re: Morph Tool - lost ability to extrude?

Marton Kiss — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:45:10 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
I think this is a bug: ArchiCAD still takes into consideration the value of the Shading Mode field even when you use OpenGL. It should not, it should assume it is set to "Analytic".

I completely agree, documented the bug for the dev folks. Thanks all for bringing this up.

Marton