topic Re: Tracker in Modeling

Tracker

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:20:17 GMT

For some time I have had a problem with the tracker randomly turning off without me wanting it to. I have to go back into the menus & turn it back on.

I thought there may of been a keyboard shortcut that I was doing accidently, but cant find any reference to one.

Any Ideas anybody.

Re: Tracker

Dwight — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:28:31 GMT

I will give advice like Dr. Sung Park of "Monday Mornings":

Give shortcut: "J". Tracker disappear - you make appear!!
Be boss. Not dead.

Re: Tracker

compu — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:51:06 GMT

Rather than assigning a shortcut to Show/Hide Tracker (which had been my own solution, too) it would be a better solution to report this bug to Graphisoft to let them fix anyway within a hotfix. It's a boring thing which remains for years and here is how it does happen:

On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

Re: Tracker

Matt Balaam — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:02:42 GMT

compu wrote:
On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

This has been a long standing frustration of mine. I've reported it to Graphisoft Tech Support but couldn't quite put my finger on what caused it. Thanks to your post compu I now finally know what causes it so I can try to avoid it in the future!

Re: Tracker

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 00:58:45 GMT

compu wrote:
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On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

Finally an explanation on what turns it off.

Re: Tracker

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:27:25 GMT

Yes, thanks for explaining what it was. Never knew the action that shuts it off. But I find the first "out of frustration" question other people at the office ask me about AC is "I used to be able to input numbers and now I can't". And it's always the tracker shut off.

Thanks again.

Re: Tracker

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:28:55 GMT

I usually find it's there at the end of a session. But not there when I start a new session.

Re: Tracker

Link — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:39:37 GMT

compu wrote:
On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

That's great that you've figured out what turns the Tracker off! Well done!

Fortunately though, it only seems to turn it off it's visibility not it's functionality, and is easy to turn back on via the Toolbar.

Nevertheless Graphisoft should be made aware of it.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Tracker

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:00:45 GMT

compu wrote:
On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

Hahah just tried it....its going to be a hard habit to break

Re: Tracker

Marton Kiss — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:58:53 GMT

compu wrote:
Rather than assigning a shortcut to Show/Hide Tracker (which had been my own solution, too) it would be a better solution to report this bug to Graphisoft to let them fix anyway within a hotfix. It's a boring thing which remains for years and here is how it does happen:

On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

Thanks for posting the steps that are required to replicate this problem. Forwarded this to our dev folks for fixing.

Marton

Re: Tracker

Barry Kelly — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 03:16:05 GMT

compu wrote:
On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

Pressing N or W while zooming also switches the tracker off.

Maybe there are other key combinations as well.

Barry.