Adjusting Walls and Lines (Relative vrs. Absolute) [I think]

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

Has anyone run into the option to change the length of walls and lines in a relative distance rather than an absolute distance. By this I mean that if I select a wall that is 3 feet long grab a hotspot and start dragging the end and enter the new distance as 2 feet, I would like that wall to become 5 feet in length, not 2 feet. The only solution I have at the moment is to use [alt] + [shift] to place the user origin at the opposite end of the wall from the hotspot and stretch from there. While this is acceptable it is not the greatest in my opinion. Does anyone know of a global option to control this that I am just not seeing?

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Barry,
You are right. I did have guidelines turned off.
When I turn them on I get the same behavior you do.
To bad. I liked how it worked before but now that
AC does not have the cutom constraint angle
I have to use guidelines and do the addition operation.
Thanks,
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Stephen,
I just tried "D" and it seemed to work just like "R".
You say AC prefers "D". How do you mean this ?
Is the result more consistent using "D" versus "R" ?
Peter Devlin

[Link]

Stephen wrote:
I've noticed with Tracker on, it prefers "D" for distance rather than "R".

It shouldn't though. D & R should do exactly the same thing in the tracker. I still prefer R, because of this reason.

It appears that with the Guide on we need to temporarily backtrack over our wall before holding shift when stretching it, to have the Edit Origin snap to that end. Without the Guide Lines on it works just like it did previously.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

I just tried an experiment because i was sure i had seen different results on different occasions.
I drew a line, selected it, grabbed an end node and started to stretch - the display in the tracker was showing distance from the start of the line (not the node I had selected).
I pressed SHIFT to constrain angle, still showed distance from start of line.
I released SHIFT then pressed it again, it now showed distance from selected node.
It appears the SHIFT key is a toggle between the two.

[Anonymous]

Ha ha!! After posting the above message I went back to the same drawing, the same line and got different results again. Seems flakey.

[Stephen Dolbee]

Peter wrote:
Stephen,
I just tried "D" and it seemed to work just like "R".
You say AC prefers "D". How do you mean this ?
Is the result more consistent using "D" versus "R" ?
Peter Devlin

I think "D" is more consistent than "R". Sometimes (although not always) when "R" is used, the angle changes even though I am constraining the angle with the shift key.

Steve

[Anonymous]

Just an observation. I have noticed for awhile now that the folks fro GS are conspicuous by their absence from these forums. You would think that someone from GS would chime in and acknowledge shift as a toggle or not. Perhaps they are just lurking and gathering data for the next bug-fix.

Hello.......Anybody out there??

[TomWaltz]

gbley wrote:
Just an observation. I have noticed for awhile now that the folks fro GS are conspicuous by their absence from these forums. You would think that someone from GS would chime in and acknowledge shift as a toggle or not. Perhaps they are just lurking and gathering data for the next bug-fix.

Hello.......Anybody out there??

You believe in unicorns, don't you? 😉

[Anonymous]

Next you're going to tell me there is no Easter Bunny