AC10: Interactive Training Guide

[Anonymous]

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

[Djordje]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

The image was taken from AC10 mac ppc build 817.

[Barry Kelly]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Laszlo Nagy]

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?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Djordje]

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 ...

[Anonymous]

>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

[Djordje]

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

So? MightyMouse too expensive? 😉

Go and buy one. Now.

[Anonymous]

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

[TomWaltz]

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

[Djordje]

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?

[ArcAngel]

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.

[__archiben]

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

[__archiben]

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