topic Re: AC 15 Guides in Modeling

AC 15 Guides

drh64 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:04:19 GMT

Is it possible to go back to the way guides worked in 14? I do not like the they way they have been changed in 15.
thx

Re: AC 15 Guides

Barry Kelly — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:20:13 GMT

No.
But persist with them - they really are better but they do take some getting used to.
What are you having trouble with?
Barry.

Re: AC 15 Guides

drh64 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:14:41 GMT

The simple things like drawing a line at 45 degrees from a starting point. What happened to that???? Drawing a line parallel with another line???

Re: AC 15 Guides

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:56:52 GMT

drh64 wrote:
The simple things like drawing a line at 45 degrees from a starting point. What happened to that???? Drawing a line parallel with another line???

The main change is the way the guidelines are activated (the orange dot). Everything else seems to work pretty much as always for me. Perhaps there was a change in your work environment?

Re: AC 15 Guides

sinceV6 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:06:01 GMT

New guidelines are better, indeed. Like Barry said... give'em a few more tries, and read the documentation (or watch the videos). All previous functionality is there, and even more, but is now user activated and doesn't get in your way like previous ones.

Use the cursor to point other elements and click the orange dot. If you want on-the-fly guides from, let's say a node, after you start a drawing command (wall, line, polyline, etc), click-and-drag-away on any hotspot, it'll give you new guidelines based there.

Best regards.

Re: AC 15 Guides

Barry Kelly — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:49:37 GMT

drh64 wrote:
The simple things like drawing a line at 45 degrees from a starting point. What happened to that????

Make sure in your Work Environment under Guide Lines you have the incremental angle set to 45°.
Then it is exactly the same as before.

Barry.

Re: AC 15 Guides

Barry Kelly — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:55:32 GMT

drh64 wrote:
Drawing a line parallel with another line???

Start to draw your line (pick first point).
Then hover mouse over the edge you want to me parallel to and you will see an orange spot appear.
Click on that spot to activate the guide line.
Now you will have parallel and perpendicular guide lines to this default guide line just as before.

Barry.

Re: AC 15 Guides

Barry Kelly — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:02:04 GMT

If you want to activate a guide from a point after you have started to draw a line then do as per the attached image.

Barry.

Re: AC 15 Guides

Barry Kelly — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:06:48 GMT

If you want to just start drawing a line from a known point at 45° (or whatever angle your incremental guide line angle is set to) then just hover your mouse over the point before you start to draw the line and press the keyboard shortcut for guide lines (`).
Then move the mouse around and choose the guide line you want.

Barry.

Re: AC 15 Guides

Miha Nahtigal — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:14:35 GMT

I have many problems with this too.

Mainly my ` character doesn't work. No matter weather I use US keyboard layout or country's default (Slovenian).

I've even created a new keyboard layout in which I replaced default functionality of upper left key to ` and ~ with shift pressed. I can input these two characters everywhere (in every edit box), but nothing happens when I press them while drawing (hovering over the point and/or trying to remove guide lines).