Work Environment Changes

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The predefined Work Environments for Archicad 28 (International version) have been updated, based on usage statistics, to ensure that most-used commands are easily accessible. Here are some of the main changes you’ll notice:

Rearranged Standard toolbar

• Guides menu contains all commands related to Guide Line, Snap Guides, Snap Points, and Distance Guides commands - including a new, combined toggle for “Snap Guides and Points”

• Grids menu contains all commands/options related to grids and Editing Plane

• Group menu contains all grouping commands

• Tracker controls removed - use Work Environment “Tracker” page or Coordinates palette instead

• Issue Manager/Organizer, Change Manager removed - use Document menu commands instead

• Design Checker removed - use Design > Model Check menu command instead

New toolbar: Drag Elements

Displayed by default.

Updated shortcuts

Shown here for Windows. Mac shortcuts are identical, but use Cmd instead of Ctrl.

• F: Flip (change from P used in previous versions)
• P: Next pet palette item ; Shift + P: previous pet palette item
• Arrow keys: Move selected element (Nudge)
• Shift + Arrow Keys: Larger Nudge
• Alt + Arrow keys: Scroll
• Ctrl + Left/Right: Next/Previous Layout
• Ctrl + R: Rotate
• Ctrl+ E: Rotate (No change)
• Ctrl + Shift + R= Rotate a copy
• Ctrl + Shift + E= Rotate a copy
• Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R = Rebuild and Regenerate

Default Profiles

• Three predefined profiles (instead of six): Architectural, MEP, and Structural

• Command Layouts are unified for all 3 profiles as Standard Commands.xml. So there are no differences among these profiles in terms of the Menu structure, list of available Toolbars, and the structure of each Toolbar.

New menu commands

• View > Distance Guides Options

• Help > New in Archicad

• Help > Hide learning content (this hides the new onboarding coach marks and product tour)

• as well as brand new commands for the new features in Archicad 28