ArchiCad 8.1 New Features

[Conrado Dominguez]

We all hear of the new improvements made in 8.1 and some of you know about it.

Since the product is already out in some locations, could we ask Graphisoft to release a PDF summary of the new features.

A document similar to the "doors and windows" improvements would be great to get us to speed while we wait.

Conrado

[Aussie John]

rengarch wrote:
I am on the Mac version of 8.1
Has anyone experienced the 'x','y','r' etc. single keystrokes not working?
OS x 10..2.6

Rita, I havent noticed it happening since upgrading to 10.3. ( mind you that has caused some other problems)

[__archiben]

Aussie wrote:

rengarch wrote:
I am on the Mac version of 8.1
Has anyone experienced the 'x','y','r' etc. single keystrokes not working?
OS x 10..2.6

Rita, I havent noticed it happening since upgrading to 10.3. ( mind you that has caused some other problems)

i've never had any trouble with 'x', 'y', 'r' keystrokes not working: archiCAD 8.0.x with 10.2.x and archiCAD 8.1 with 10.2.x or 10.3.x.

john - could i ask what kind of "other problems" you are having with 10.3, so i can be on the lookout? thanks.

~/archiben

[Aussie John]

~/archiben wrote:
john - could i ask what kind of "other problems" you are having with 10.3, so i can be on the lookout? thanks.

~/archiben

Ben
After updating to OSX10.3 I noticed that " save selection as a module"
doesn't have any checkboxes visible to "apply offset and rotations" ( which
when you click it remembered the name of the resaved module) and another check box (which I cant remember what it was called)

I had just started using modules and not having that feature now makes it
harder to use.

Selecting text-the highlight disappears after the initial selection

I'm still on V8.0r3
Does 8.1 have these issues?

[__archiben]

Aussie wrote:
I'm still on V8.0r3
Does 8.1 have these issues?

john

no problems with 'apply offset and rotation', or the other box, 'change hotlink to the saved file'. were you trying to save it to a place that you didn't have write permission?

no problems either with selecting text - sounds like it could be an openGL graphics card thing? are you using openGL for 2D redraws? my origin 'hotspot' disappears occasionally although it still registers as 0,0 when i hover over it - again an openGL thing i think . . .

~/archiben

[Djordje]

Aussie wrote:
I'm still on V8.0r3
Does 8.1 have these issues?

John,

This all sounds to me like a video driver/OpenGL implementation problem. Try to find a newer driver/disable OpenGL and check.

HTH,

[Anonymous]

JCovarrubias wrote:
I'm not in front of my Mac at the moment to test this workaround, but try :

ftp://techsupport:h3lp2003@ftp.graphisoft.com
(public read-access to tech support FTP folders)
go to the "gs kb" folder and search for appropriate folders (662 and 663)

Same thing happens. I can get to the folders but as soon as I click on the documents themselves they disappear.

[JCovarrubias]

try the Internet Explorer browser instead ..

(
additionally 8.1 doc's will be posted on http://tr.graphisoftus.com

specifically:
- Installation instructions [8.1 Install - 2 pages.pdf]
- New Features [archicad v8.1 newfeatures.pdf]
- Feature Changes [81_feature_changes.pdf]
- Library update [New_Storefront_Windows_Doors.pdf]
- Fixed bugs [81r1_fixed_bugs.pdf]
)

[Anonymous]

JCovarrubias wrote:
try the Internet Explorer browser instead ..

That worked It would be cool if it worked with Safari and the Finder though.

[Anonymous]

JCovarrubias wrote:
try the Internet Explorer browser instead ..

(
additionally 8.1 doc's will be posted on http://tr.graphisoftus.com

specifically:
- Installation instructions [8.1 Install - 2 pages.pdf]
- New Features [archicad v8.1 newfeatures.pdf]
- Feature Changes [81_feature_changes.pdf]
- Library update [New_Storefront_Windows_Doors.pdf]
- Fixed bugs [81r1_fixed_bugs.pdf]
)

PDF's are now available
http://tr.graphisoftus.com/

[Anonymous]

Just as a warning. It seems as though these PDFs don't open correctly in the Preview application on the Mac. I had to open them using Acrobat.