topic Re: Keeping Groups on/off? in Modeling

Keeping Groups on/off?

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:34:36 GMT

This is driving me nuts: when I toggle groups off, they always seem to come back on... many times I want to suspend groups for a series of operations, but they always want to come back on after 1 or 2. Is there a setting in the preferences to keep "suspend groups" active until I de-activate it??

Re: Keeping Groups on/off?

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:20:52 GMT

Check your shortcuts you could be activating it by mistake. In Mac the Command and Option keys are together.

Re: Keeping Groups on/off?

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:39:31 GMT

well, here's an example operation, and what AC does:

suspend groups (opt-G)
select line
split (S)
<archicad un-suspends groups>
opt-G (to re-suspend)
delete trimmed part of line/wall

to be sure, this is just an example (not how I typically trim a wall), but it happens all the time... really annoying. it seems like the second the command is completed, it un-suspends

Re: Keeping Groups on/off?

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:49:01 GMT

I think that what you want to disable is Autogroup.
I can not duplicate your error with the procedure you describe, it does not cause AC to autogroup again.

Re: Keeping Groups on/off?

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:44:52 GMT

well, the thing is, I haven't got autogroup on!

another annoying moment is when I have suspended groups, do a bunch of work, and need to undo a command... I work quickly so it happens all the time, and no matter how long previously I suspended the groups an Undo un-suspends. Argh!

Re: Keeping Groups on/off?

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:03:34 GMT

I was experiencing a similar problem. It's wasn't anything I was doing, autogroup etc... the software was clearly not functioning as intended.

Ultimately, I reinstalled ArchiCAD and the problem was resolved.

It might also be note worthy that I reinstalled ArchiCAD on top of a fresh OS install, which I wiped for unrelated reasons.

Good Luck - you don't have to live like that