topic Re: moving guide lines in Modeling

moving guide lines

Dave Brach — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 21:57:30 GMT

one thing I love about sketchup is offsetting guidelines with two clicks using the tape measure, and I was looking for a way to do this in archicad.

the archicad reference guide says "to move an existing guide line to a more useful location, move the cursor to the guide line. Click on the orange dot, then move the guide line". When I click on the orange dot, the dot disappears and the guide line stays put. what am I missing?

Re: moving guide lines

sinceV6 — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:31:54 GMT

It should say:

... Click & drag the orange dot, then release at the desired position....

Best regards.

Re: moving guide lines

Dave Brach — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:38:02 GMT

of course, thanks!

Re: moving guide lines

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:54:45 GMT

and you can draw a guide between 2 points just like in SU. Start a command (line, wall, etc) hit the Guide Line Shortcut key, draw the Guide line and in the screen shot you can select the midpoint of the guide.

Re: moving guide lines

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:56:16 GMT

midpoint…

Re: moving guide lines

Barry Kelly — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:32:45 GMT

And when dragging a guide line if you press CTRL you will get a copy.
Barry.

Re: moving guide lines

Stress Co_ — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 04:20:42 GMT

Barry wrote:
And when dragging a guide line if you press CTRL you will get a copy.

Or press "option" if on a mac.

Re: moving guide lines

sinceV6 — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:52:49 GMT

Or create a new one on-the-fly by hovering a parallel edge -from another element- to your desired guideline and drag the orange dot (meaning that there doesn't need to be a previous guideline to be dragged)