Annoying Archicad

[Anonymous]

This thread is for those things Archicad does that during the daily grind makes one clench their teeth.

This is not meant to be a wish list, but a place to tell the devs what where and how Archicad causes frustration while using it (and maybe a place where "bad" behavior can be explained if there is a reason for it).

[Barry Kelly]

Steve wrote:
perhaps it is my settings somewhere, but I am continually frustrated that snap points are not showing up when I need them. I don't like having to find a place on what I am wanting to see snap points on that will make them show up, and then racing to try and hit it before it disappears.

In your Work Environment > On-screen Options there is a setting to turn on/off 'auto hide snap points'.
Turning it off they behave like guide lines in that they stay on screen until you have completed your drawing/modelling command rather than hiding after a few seconds.

Barry.

[Steve Jepson]

I am aware of that option but I think I am turning it on an off with out noticing. Also, what I am talking about is not consistent.

What makes a special snap point special?

Also, ever try to dimension to the center of a wall?
Draw wall--try to add dimension from center of wall snap point to end of wall.
Can't do it. Why would I want to do that? Because walls are not always used as walls and sometimes I need a snap point at mid point of it's length.

How many snap points do you get near the center when you move the cursor over a wall. It is not consistent. I can get 1,2, or three. ( 3/8") apart no matter how wide the wall is.

[Steve Jepson]

exactly the same wall, copied to be sure.

Which snap point it the middle of the wall? Which is the special snap point?
Which one can you dimension to from the middle to the end--nether.

[Anonymous]

mcjh_matt wrote:

zeropointreference wrote:
When I select a group of objects to move to another location, when I select a node it automatically selects a deform command instead of the drag command. 9999 times out of 10000 times I do this I'm looking to drag my group of objects. Once in a blue moon I might need to have multiple objects selected to see a deformation take place but it's almost never.

There is an easy way to avoid this, use the Drag keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+D) to initiate the drag command, you then don't have to worry about which pet palette option is active. This also means that if you do want to repeat a previous pet palette action it will be remembered after the drag rather than having to activate it again.

I have the opposite problem!

I always use Ctrl+D to initiate the drag command. So if I open the pet-palette, it's usually because I want to deform a fill. Often I zoom in quite close to do this, so I don't notice immediately that I'm dragging the whole fill, instead of just the node point.

The pet palette seems to reset itself to drag, although I never use it for that, and it would save me so much time and frustration if the drag command was taken off the pet palette, or, at least, if I could have the option to remove it.

[Steve Jepson]

you can't always get the arrows on dimension chains small enough.

1.42 Pt is not too big sometimes.

[Steve Jepson]

Drawing title will sometimes end up miles away form the placed drawing in a layout.

[Steve Jepson]

can't set toe kick to zero.

[Steve Jepson]

assigned material is almost always wrong for Horizontal and Vertical.

For example, cabinets. If you want Horizontal pine, you need to select Virtical and vice versa.

Yes, I can fix that. But I do find it annoying.

[Steve Jepson]

I don't like the way the Dimension Marker -suffix/prefix can not be set a good distance away from the window. It is not always readable because it is too close to the wall.

[Steve Jepson]

when you want to paste something from one place another, you don't have the option to choose what layer it is pasted too.

...everything except choose what layer you want it to end up on.