quick layers and trace setup

[Anonymous]

on my MacBook Pro > the Quick Layers pallet does not appear in Window|Palettes as an option nor can i find it under Options|Work Environment?? (this is ok on my G5)

on my Mac PPC G5 > i do not have the option or selection opportunity to select the check box (its greyed out) for the pull down arrow/sticky for the Trace and Reference menu tool bar?? (this is ok on my MacBook Pro)

i did have both of these items available under the previous build but i think that they have vanished since i upgraded to Build 1114.

i've spent most of an afternoon and a morning trying to locate and select these options but no luck. looked everywhere i can think of > any ideas of what may be going on?

[Anonymous]

I have it on mine. Try changing to one of the default Work Environments. You should also be able to find it under the "Menus..." options in the Work Environment settings (see attached).

[Karl Ottenstein]

46cruisair wrote:
i've spent most of an afternoon and a morning trying to locate and select these options but no luck. looked everywhere i can think of > any ideas of what may be going on?

Easy to find once you know where to look, of course. 😉

It is a bit convoluted: a lot of functionality in ArchiCAD is in add-ons, delivered with the product. The commands for those add-ons are grouped under '17 Add-Ons' when you display commands and menus with "All commands by theme". That's where you'll find QuickLayers in that organization for dragging it into your own menus.

If you display "all commands in alphabetical order", you'll find it under "Quick Layers" for the palette - and a bunch of other names for each individual command. The method in the previous paragraph is the best way to see things grouped reasonably.

Karl

[Anonymous]

matthew and karl>

i had been to and revisited all those places and Quick Layers was not to be found.

i finally de-installed AC11 and reinstalled and did the build and library updates.

that fixed it. i became happy again.

[Anonymous]

Curious. I would guess that Quick Layers is implemented as an add-on and it somehow got dis-installed.