Diagonal dimensions

[CFS_Mike]

I don't see the option to create diagonal dimensions. The geometry method only gives me linear and circumference. When I click on the linear button nothing happens. I looked around but I couldn't find any options to turn it on. 

Archicad 27 on macOS Sonoma 14.6

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based Sonoma 14

[torben_wadlinger]

rtfm

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/27/INT/index.htm#t=_AC27_Help%2F070_Documentation%2F070_Documentation...

[CFS_Mike]

I don't have that option! When I click on it, it does nothing. 

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

I find if you click to quickly on the buttons, you will see no extra options.

But if you click and hold for just a short while, the options will pop out.

Barry.

[CFS_Mike]

Thank you Barry, seems odd but it worked! 

[Laszlo Nagy]

I think there is some issue here.

When you have a button and you see a little right-pointing arrow to its right, when you click the little arrow, a little palette should pop up and show all the available options. (So you would not have to hold down the mouse button - although you can and then it is displayed for sure.) I click on the little arrow in three button in the Info Box when the Dimension Tool is active.

The Geometry Method button behaves very erratically, I can get it to display the two options every 4 or 5 clicks. Clicking either of the other two buttons (Marker Type, and Marker Type Witness Lines) display the popup every time I click them.

So I think this may be a User Interface issue.

FWIW: my Display Scaling is set to 100% so that cannot be the issue.

I will forward this to GS HQ for investigation.

 

[Laszlo Nagy]

Just to add a bit to this:

It seems like it has something to do with how fast you click and then release the mouse button.

If I slow myself down a little bit, then the popup always appears.

It seems like with some of these button, there is a case where you can click it too fast, release the mouse button, the button is animated and it looks pressed (so Archicad gives you the feedback that it sensed the button was pressed) but for some reason, the popup does not appear. If I slow myself down so slightly more time passes between the click of the mouse button and its release, the popup is displayed.

So it is a curious little behavior.

[Barry Kelly]

Yes you just need the slightest of pauses as you click the button.

A quick click and release does not activate the pop-out.

It is a longer click and release that works.

By long I mean just hold the button for a fraction of a second.

I just had a closer look and realised that these geometry pop-outs are not a separate pop-out button like they are with say the favourites - a quick click works for these.

You can click anywhere on the geometry button.

A quick click will just change to that geometry method - no pop-out.

But a slightly longer click will change to that method and show the alternate methods (pop-out).

So it seems it is by design that it works this way.

Barry.