Ghost Story / Virtual Trace / ?

[DataChris]

So ghost story became virtual trace (or whatever it's called now) but in my copy of AC it doesn't exist anywhere in any form. I've read some references about it not appearing if you've imported your own work environment but digging into all the available commands I still can find it.

Can someone please provide detail instructions on how to turn this back on?


Also is there still a way to save a view to navigator without placing it on a layout?

[Link]

Maybe you could help us understand what you mean by 'resetting the defaults'?

Cheers,
Link.

[Richard Morrison]

DataChris wrote:
Richard, I performed that search. NOTHING came up. There was absolutely no reference to trace in any form through any menu, help screen, search, etc. etc. Again the only way to get them back was to reset the defaults.

I would've simply added them to my work environment if it were possible but they did NOT exist.

So when you use the Help Menu, you don't get this?

[__archiben]

DataChris wrote:
I don't know how else to state it but they DID NOT EXIST in my copy of 11 in any form. Period.

I don't know if it's a bug or just some tweaked out reality on my installation/mac/etc but they did NOT EXIST in any form and could not be added without resetting the defaults.

mate. they did. you're not understanding the WE concept.

there is a list of ALL commands - they are built in to archicad, right? and then there is your work environment - this shows the commands that you have selected to make visible. reset 'switches off' all commands that you were previously using and 'switches on' the default set of commands.

when you open the WE settings dialogue and go to the 'Command Scheme'>'Menus' tab you will be presented with two lists: the left hand side contains various permutations of command lists, the right hand side YOUR selected command list. switch the left hand side to 'Show all commands' or 'Show all commands by theme' and add them to the right-hand side where you want them.

because you imported your 10 work environment, archicad only 'switched on' the commands that were present in archicad 10 - more specifically, the commands that you had switched on in AC10. that is why they didn't show in 11.

~/archiben

[Thomas Holm]

DataChris wrote:
don't know if it's a bug or just some tweaked out reality on my installation/mac/etc but they did NOT EXIST in any form and could not be added without resetting the defaults.

That's just it. If they "did not exist in any form" you wouldn't be able to find them by returning to the default WE!

[DataChris]

~/archiben wrote:
mate. they did. you're not understanding the WE concept.

there is a list of ALL commands - they are built in to archicad, right? and then there is your work environment - this shows the commands that you have selected to make visible. reset 'switches off' all commands that you were previously using and 'switches on' the default set of commands.

when you open the WE settings dialogue and go to the 'Command Scheme'>'Menus' tab you will be presented with two lists: the left hand side contains various permutations of command lists, the right hand side YOUR selected command list. switch the left hand side to 'Show all commands' or 'Show all commands by theme' and add them to the right-hand side where you want them.

because you imported your 10 work environment, archicad only 'switched on' the commands that were present in archicad 10 - more specifically, the commands that you had switched on in AC10. that is why they didn't show in 11.

~/archiben

There's no misunderstanding. I applied (at least 5 times prior to my initial posting) the method you've described. Trace did not exist. Period.

[DataChris]

Richard wrote:
So when you use the Help Menu, you don't get this?

Exactly.

The help menu was the 1st place i began when I began searching for a solution but there were NO refereces to Trace (or any related terms) anywhere.

[Thomas Holm]

The only (but a bit far-fetched) explanation I can figure is that you have several AC versions installed, and the links somehow have gotten screwed up. Example: I've had issues when I've had both the INT version and the localized SWE version installed, both in the Graphiosft folder. A complete re-install should fix this, but I'd recommend uninstalling all older versions or at least re-naming their folders first.

[DataChris]

Thomas wrote:
The only (but a bit far-fetched) explanation I can figure is that you have several AC versions installed, and the links somehow have gotten screwed up. Example: I've had issues when I've had both the INT version and the localized SWE version installed, both in the Graphiosft folder. A complete re-install should fix this, but I'd recommend uninstalling all older versions or at least re-naming their folders first.

Hmmm not so far fetched. AC 11, 10, 9, all running.

[Thomas Holm]

DataChris wrote:
Hmmm not so far fetched. AC 11, 10, 9, all running.

Ok Start by just having one running!