ever try to get the orientation for the text in a wall tag (Structure Label 18 ) for example to read the way you want it-- text vertical with wall tag perpendicular ? I am not sure you can do it. Annoying to fuss with it
Keith wrote:I've trained myself over 9 years to only open files by starting a new archicad session, hitting the browse button (ignore the recent list, file-name might look good, but your colleague moved the file, renamed it or worse antics) and go look for the file I want to open.
Something one of our staff mentioned today, and everyone chimed in: 'Oh, yes. I do that every time! It drives me mad!'
It's this: When opening a drawing in a second (or third) instance of Archicad, we forget to tick the box. So the next question is, 'Save changes before closing (your current session)?"
So why do we always forget? Because there is no 'Open a New Session' on the drop down menu, you click on 'Open' and then go find the file in Finder. By the time you've identified the file you wish to open, you've forgotten that you have to tick the 'Launch a New Instance of Archicad' box. So you hit 'cancel' and go round again.
In the same vein, that second session may be for a drawing that you had open recently - and there it is teasing you in the 'Recent Files' menu. You can't open it from there, because there's no box to tick.
What we need is 'Open in a New Session' on the main File drop-down, and then 'Recent Files' can be offered as an option. Not difficult to program, I think. All you need is the will!
I wonder how many man-hours our office wastes on this one per year!
We also use the project number as the first part of ANY folder in a project's main folder structure, but that's another story. Only fool proof way we have of saving files in the right spot
To properly chime in:
Our office is part of and old converted barn building. The electrical wiring etc isn't that solid, sometimes we have a power outage in part of the building. Popular one being the server, which means ArchiCAD can't find it's license and prompts you with an evil misleading prompt about closing drawing or saving it somehow.
Best practice seems to be to ignore the prompt until we get the server running again, but I've lost many hours of work by clicking the wrong (again misleading) option. I can't reproduce the prompt from top off my head, but it's EVIL!!
Our office is part of and old converted barn building. The electrical wiring etc isn't that solid, sometimes we have a power outage in part of the building. Popular one being the server, which means ArchiCAD can't find it's license and prompts you with an evil misleading prompt about closing drawing or saving it somehow.
Best practice seems to be to ignore the prompt until we get the server running again, but I've lost many hours of work by clicking the wrong (again misleading) option. I can't reproduce the prompt from top off my head, but it's EVIL!!
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