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Geof Gainer
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Keyboard short cut for previous view

Since the last update my keyboard shortcut for switching to the previous view--say back to a detail from plan or 3D--doesn't work. It just toggles successively through all the open windows. I'd fix it but I can't find the command listed in Keyboard Shortcuts. Anyone know what it's named? 

AC fan since v 7. Currently on AC 28.1.1 (4100) USA FULL, Apple Silicon,. 2022 Mac Studio, 32G ram. MacOS Sequoia 15.5
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CosminF
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Hi,

I found the settings you might be looking for in - Window - Navigate.

Maybe you can define your custom ones there.

 

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Hope this helps.

 

Cosmin Furdui - architect @ Wincon
AC 27, running on Windows 11 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K CPU64, 3.40GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX5060 32GB
Geof Gainer
Booster

Right idea, but no luck, thanks Cosmin. I've searched commands with "go" "back" "toggle" etc but can't find it. 

How do other people do this: if you're in any window—plan, section, layout, detail, schedule, etc—how to you get back to the previous window you were just in? For the past twenty years I've just hit command-~. Now that just cycles me through every open window till I get back to the right one a dozen clicks later. 

AC fan since v 7. Currently on AC 28.1.1 (4100) USA FULL, Apple Silicon,. 2022 Mac Studio, 32G ram. MacOS Sequoia 15.5
CosminF
Advisor

I personally use F2 or F3 to toggle between plan and section and avoid opening too many “tabs” at once.

Cosmin Furdui - architect @ Wincon
AC 27, running on Windows 11 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K CPU64, 3.40GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX5060 32GB
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin

@Geof Gainer

There is the "Show Previous Tab" and "Show Next Tab" pair of commands, but I am not sure that is what you are looking for.

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Geof Gainer
Booster

I believe the problem turns out to have been an operating system upgrade. All my other apps toggles back and forth between your current window and the last one you looked at with command-~. But for some reason in AC you toggle sequentially through all your dozen or so open windows. Really frustrating when you're used to zipping back and forth between two views without having to look at the keyboard. Any way this can be fixed within AC, or is it a Mac problem? 

AC fan since v 7. Currently on AC 28.1.1 (4100) USA FULL, Apple Silicon,. 2022 Mac Studio, 32G ram. MacOS Sequoia 15.5
Barry Kelly
Moderator

There are commands for showing last section, elevation, etc., that you can assign shortcuts for.

Personally I find it easier you just click on the tab itself or on the view in the view map list.

 

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Or as Laszlo mentioned, there is a command for "Show Previous Tab".

 

Barry.

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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin

I think what Geoff wants is the ability to switch to the previous active Tab, not the previous Tab in the list of Tabs.

If you have, let us say, 6 Tabs open, and you are on Tab 1 (Floor Plan), then you click Tab 5, which is a Layout, then the Show Previous Tab command will take you to Tab 4, not Tab 1, where you were before going to Tab 5.

So, unfortunately, there is no Show Previous Active Tab command in Archicad. Barry's suggestion may be the next best thing.

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AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
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Geof Gainer
Booster

Thanks Laszlo, that's exactly right, and I used to be able to do it. But I think it stopped working with command-~ because of a macOS change, not a fault of AC, so I'm guessing it's not something that Graphisoft can change back. 

AC fan since v 7. Currently on AC 28.1.1 (4100) USA FULL, Apple Silicon,. 2022 Mac Studio, 32G ram. MacOS Sequoia 15.5

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