ArchiCAD 10 - What About My Wishes?

[Anonymous]

Sorry this is so long, but I have a series of personal wishes, and I'm wondering if any of them were incorporated into ArchiCAD 10. Although I was on the Beta test list, I had almost no time to play with it, so I'm just going ask what's in there and see what kind of responses I get.

1 - Can it do details of details?

2 - Can a default color be assigned to layers?

3 - Does dimension text have a background mask like regular text does?

4 - Does the layout portion still use absolute paths to find external linked documents? It other words, if I link a Word document, can it look in my project's folder first, or does it always look for "Q:\ArchiCAD 9\......."?

5 - Does the Distance portion of the section marker still use some mysterious algorithm to select pens for the contours and fills? [http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=170&highlight=]

6 - Is the Witness Line Offset specified in points, or is it still in inches?

7 - Does the Edit Selection Set dialog have more properties than just layer and pen? I'm specifically looking for Linetype, Material, Fill Pen, etc..

8 - Is there an auditing function that can check the database for possible problems, and fix them? [http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=9287&highlight=]

9 - When you use a Reference Level, do the elevation dims still have that stupid text appended to the measurement? i.e. "(First Reference Level)" [http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=7364&highlight=]

10 - Do elevation dimensions have a parameter for typing in the dimension target, such as "T.O.F.F."? [http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=7361&highlight=]

11 - Is the dimension text on elevation dimensions placed any better? [http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=7363&highlight=]

12 - Does AC10 utilize double-clicking? [http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=2626&highlight=]

13 - Can you sort the stuff in the Project Map by Reference ID or Name? [http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=3125&highlight=]

14 - When using text, can the Leader tool point to the MIDDLE of the top or bottom line? [http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=8277&highlight=]

Thanks for whatever answers you can supply!

[MSotero]

Eric wrote:
Jay, if it's any consolation i pushed very hard for item #6 during beta testing and it actually has been fixed - it just isn't obvious (or in the documentation!)

Go to Options->Project Preferences->Dimensions and you will see a new option called Witness Line Scalability. If you set this to "Fixed" (the new option) it causes the witness line value to be in points instead of imperial/metric. This behaves just like text where the point size is the same regardless of text.

That is encouraging and thanks for pushing it!
However, does it also allow for negative values yet?
So we can have witness lines that extend past the measurement point, thereby, crossing each other (as some prefer to do at corners of buildings)?

[Anonymous]

Eric wrote:
Jay, if it's any consolation i pushed very hard for item #6 during beta testing and it actually has been fixed - it just isn't obvious (or in the documentation!)

What a bizarre solution, but I don't care, as long as it's there! Thanks!

[Djordje]

Jay,

As a beta tester, you had ample opportunity to push for your favourites. As Eric did. You were in the Beta forums, and could see that people very fervently defended their positions, and that more than one design decision for 10 was overturned by the popular demand (or should I say pressure? )

There is nothing wrong with your list, I would have liked it to be mine, but your timing is completely off. I hope you will be in the team for the next version, and that you will take more active approach - all of us can only benefit from that. Yes, it does take a lot of your time, and is dangerous if you do real projects in a beta (I can tell you a few stories ...) but the outcome is always almost satisfying ... as there is no way everyone will be always happy.

Just a firendly advice, no offense meant!

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
Just a firendly advice, no offense meant!

None taken.