topic Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide in General discussions

AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:40:49 GMT

Hello,

Step 4.1 of the ITC fails on a new project. Instead of a door, I get a gallery. That's right, a gallery... I start with an empty sheet, I make a slab, then walls with the magic wand. The result, at this step, is a closed building, including an additional slab for the roof. I stress this, because the roof really surprised me. Then I add a door, just like in the ITG, and as soon as I click to center it, I get a gallery, all the way to the other side of the building, where it ends with a hole. Is this a standard feature? What am I doing wrong?

I wish I could post the .pln, but the website does not allow it.

Bob

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Djordje — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:25:45 GMT

Bob,

jdk wrote:
Hello,

Step 4.1 of the ITC fails on a new project. Instead of a door, I get a gallery. That's right, a gallery... I start with an empty sheet, I make a slab, then walls with the magic wand. The result, at this step, is a closed building, including an additional slab for the roof. I stress this, because the roof really surprised me. Then I add a door, just like in the ITG, and as soon as I click to center it, I get a gallery, all the way to the other side of the building, where it ends with a hole. Is this a standard feature? What am I doing wrong?

I wish I could post the .pln, but the website does not allow it.

Bob

You can post a screen shot.

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:01:49 GMT

I am skeptical you can debug this out of an image, as it shows the output, but does not store the actual objects. However, ....

the horizontal gallery is caused by the door,
the vertical gallery by the window.

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:52:15 GMT

I can reproduce it using the AC10 demo for both mac and windows.

The image was taken from AC10 mac ppc build 817.

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Barry Kelly — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:33:14 GMT

jdk,
Looks to me like you haven't magic wanded walls around your slab perimeter but rather magic wanded a polygon shaped wall that matches you slab perimeter.
This will give you a solid mass of wall that will behave exactly like this when you place a door or window - i.e. they cut right the way through.

Check the construction method for the wall before you magic wand it.

Barry.

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:07:36 GMT

Barry, I reached the same conclusion last night, but did not manage to solve the problem. I repeated the same steps over and over again; at times, I get proper walls around the slab, but most of the times I get one big wall. I'll try again this night, with extra care, to see if it is a bug or a fault of mine.

Bob

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:24:31 GMT

jdk wrote:
Barry, I reached the same conclusion last night, but did not manage to solve the problem. I repeated the same steps over and over again; at times, I get proper walls around the slab, but most of the times I get one big wall. I'll try again this night, with extra care, to see if it is a bug or a fault of mine.

Bob

Are you sure you switched to the Straight Wall Geometry Method and you still got a Polygonal Wall after using the Magic Wand on the other element to create the Wall?

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:40:36 GMT

laszlonagy,

out of common sense, having a curvy slab, I selected the polygonal geometry instead of the straight geometry. I tried them both, and I can see that the straight geom. generates proper walls, while the polygonal geom. generates ... one thick wall. This solves the problem, as I am getting acquainted with AC's peculiarities. I hope I'll find an explanation of this somewhere...

[Another peculiarity is the 3d viewing buttons. Why using nine buttons (five zoom, panorama, orbit, explore and autoscale), instead of a Google-earth-like navigation system? :-]

Thank you laszlonagy.

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Djordje — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:21:51 GMT

jdk wrote:
[Another peculiarity is the 3d viewing buttons. Why using nine buttons (five zoom, panorama, orbit, explore and autoscale), instead of a Google-earth-like navigation system? :-]

Try pressing the scroll wheel and holding your left mouse button, with and without the Shift pressed ...

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:04:12 GMT

>Try pressing the scroll wheel and holding your left mouse button, with and without the Shift pressed ...

Ahh... I do not have a scrolling wheel mouse. I have a mac...
Is it possible to activate that feature in a different way?

Bob

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Djordje — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:22:20 GMT

jdk wrote:
Ahh... I do not have a scrolling wheel mouse. I have a mac...

So? MightyMouse too expensive? 😉

Go and buy one. Now.

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:54:22 GMT

Goodness! I thought it was the Apple logo. But no, it is a ... a... what the hell is it? A wheel? No! A ball? A navigation ball!!! I must have one...

http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/gallery/wireless_480.html

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

TomWaltz — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:13:36 GMT

Any $30 wheel mouse (I like the simple Logitechs) will work

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

Djordje — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:32:01 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
Any $30 wheel mouse (I like the simple Logitechs) will work

It definitely will, but how does it fit with the slick design of a Mac?

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

ArcAngel — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:51:44 GMT

Djordje wrote:
TomWaltz wrote:
Any $30 wheel mouse (I like the simple Logitechs) will work
It definitely will, but how does it fit with the slick design of a Mac?

How about a $20 mouse that has Mac styling? - I've been using one of these

http://www.macmice.com/mouse.html

since before the arrival of "Mighty Mouse"

It looks great with a Mac and is good value for money.

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

__archiben — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:50:06 GMT

jdk wrote:
But no, it is a ... a... what the hell is it? A wheel? No! A ball? A navigation ball!!! I must have one...

it's a nipple. a multi-directional, all singing, all dancing nipple.

you cannot run archicad efficiently without a scroll wheel/ball/nipple/etc input device. period. i was a one-eyed, one-buttoned mac fiend for years. 5 minutes with a scroll wheel mouse and i was a convert.

~/archiben

Re: AC10: Interactive Training Guide

__archiben — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:52:00 GMT

ArcAngel wrote:
It looks great with a Mac and is good value for money.

value for money, sure. but only 800cpi. the extra accuracy in using 1000-1100 resolution gaming rodents is to be advised though . . .

~/archiben