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Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

cocoloco — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 07:37:22 GMT

Hi! I don't even know where to post this but I have constant issues with archicad NOT saving my settings in Model View Options. Means that every time I save my settings, and reopen a project, I have to set up the model view options settings again and again and again. Sometimes, Archicad it doesn't even save simple settings live when I work on project, so I have to repeat the new setting several times in order to see change live. Sometimes the setting is saved but not applied... (especially in interior elevations/drawings that are completely abandoned ). For example "fit to frame" in layout never works

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon 15 Sequoia

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

Lee Hankins — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:36:47 GMT

That’s a strange one as model view options save as soon as you make a change. You don’t have to select an option to save your changes.

Are you able to describe what you’re doing and maybe supply some screen shots?

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

cocoloco — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:52:10 GMT

Ummm yes! I will try. 😄

issue 1 with model views options - specifically with CI cabinetry - I go to Model Views options. Then I select to hide Ci Cabinetry labels and set up showing openings with hinges (not w pulls). It works. I reopen the file day later…. And I see the labels and can openings exactly opposite way! So the setting doesn’t persist. So that’s issue one.

Issue 2. Interior elevations & layouts…. I want all elevations to come without the weird transparent plaque that it comes with for some reason, I call it plaque because it’s constant work to crop it and is hard to get rid of it lol. Anyway I found setting in drawings that I can set it to frame. I save the setting. I Import the elevations again, and it comes with the plaque again. I have to manually crop it OR go to setting of each elevation separately which works. But the point it that I pre-set it so I don’t have to do everything manually when it’s already placed. And that’s not how it should be acting per YouTube ( old ) videos.

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:23:50 GMT

Are you working from a cloud storage folder (which should never be done)… sounds like the kind of issues that arise in that case due to caching and syncing.

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

cocoloco — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:43:05 GMT

umm I think I am not that sophisticated. 😄 I save everything in my computer, and reopen directly from my computer?

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

SenecaDesignLLC — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 15:18:29 GMT

What archicad version are you using

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

cocoloco — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 15:38:38 GMT

The newest, 28.

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

Barry Kelly — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:25:24 GMT

issue 1

The MVO will change, but only for the current MVO combination.

If you switch to another combination (or you view uses another combination), you will have to change that setting again.

In other words if you change a setting, you have to change it in all of the combinations you want that setting to apply to.

issue 2

This has nothing to do with MVO, it is your view settings.

When you create a view it will store the zoom.

Make sure it is set to 'Current Zoom' or 'Zommed Area'

Do not tick the box to ignore zoom & rotation when opening this view.

If you have an existing view and you want to change the zoom, then zoom as you want, open the view settings and press the 'Get Current Window Settings'

Barry.

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

cocoloco — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:32:41 GMT

Hi! Thank you!

issue 1 - Yes MVO changes for the combination I set up... But loose the setting once I reopen the project again, later. Means the setting does not persist as should.

issue 2 - it looks like your setting looks different maybe you have older archicad? That being said, I know what you mean and I do have the setting correctly set up. But it does not act like it is. For example I have set up "fit to frame" , and it shows that I have this setting, yet when I move there the elevations it is not fit to frame & come again with the plaque ;D

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

Barry Kelly — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:46:11 GMT

issue 1.

So any changes you make (i.e. moving a wall) will be there when you re-open the file, but the MVO changes do not stick?

I was wondering if it is a teamwork problem, but you do not seem to be using teamwork.

The MVO should remain as you set it.

issue 2.

Yes I had version 22 open at the time.

But the settings I was showing are the view settings, not the drawing settings.

Changing the view settings will not necessarily affect what you have already placed on a layout.

Only new drawings you place will have those settings (zooms).

Fit frame to drawing has nothing to do with the zoom you save in the view settings.

It just adjusts the frame of the drawing to fit around what is in the view you have saved.

You can then manually adjust this frame to show/hide what you want.

Click 'fit to frame' again and it will just undo all of the frame crops you have made.

Barry.

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

cocoloco — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:39:25 GMT

Yes all the changes I do in archicad saved properly, except the Model view options

Re: Constant issues with archicad not saving my settings in Model View Options but also more ...

mattmgut — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:21:48 GMT

Hi Cocoloco,

Did you find a solution to this issue. I am having the same problem. When I reopen the file, I need to "zoom extents" with the magnifying glass and when I do the MVO resets to Custom rather than the view setting I previously saved. Seems to happen more with Teamwork projects. Very frustrated.