Cannot Snap to Trace Reference

[Anonymous]

I am working on a wall section and would like to draft it over a trace reference of the wall section view. In the view, I turned on the trace reference and dragged it to the side to draft over. For some reason I cannot snap to the trace reference with lines, fills, etc. Could someone tell me if there is a way to turn snapping on/off to the trace reference? Or, what else might be going on?

Many thanks!

Using Archicad 21

[Daniel Kovacs]

Hey guys,

I think what LOUTRO describes in his original post is a known issue with ARCHICAD 21. In 21 we introduced Section/Elevation Ranges, and apparetly if you trace another Section/Elevation onto your open S/E View, if any part of the traced S/E is out of this range, the hotspots will seize to work (I think the range has an effect on the traced S/E as well).

Here's a video about how it works! The workaround I would suggest is to move the reference somewhere inside the range (eg. above instead of next to it).

About the fact that Railings are not available in the 'Visible Elements' Filter of the Trace and Reference Palette, I have notified our developers (You can still just turn off the layer of those elements though).

Regards,

[Stress Co_]

dkovacs wrote:
I think what LOUTRO describes in his original post is a known issue with ARCHICAD 21.
In 21 we introduced Section/Elevation Ranges, and apparetly if you trace another Section/Elevation onto your open S/E View,
if any part of the traced S/E is out of this range, the hotspots will seize to work.
The workaround I would suggest is to move the reference somewhere inside the range (eg. above instead of next to it).

Thanks Daniel.
That was the issue.

I only turn "Elevation Range" ON, when I want to adjust widths
without going back to the plan view. (+1)

To view wide sections/elevations side by side
and still snap to the trace, I have to widen the range. (-1)

It would make sense if turning Range OFF would enable
snapping to the trace when it was out of the active's range.

That one aspect seems more like a bug than a feature.

[Daniel Kovacs]

Stress wrote:
That one aspect seems more like a bug than a feature.

Sorry if I wasn't clear about that: by known issue, I meant a known bug. We are working on fixing it!

[Stress Co_]

I thought that's what you meant,
but wasn't sure.
Thanks for clarifying.

[Stress Co_]

Still an issue with AC 22

[Anonymous]

Yep, not working on 22. Unfortunately I cannot use the workaround with section range, because I'm trying to combine two sections into one on the layout and section ranges are fixed. Now I must split the 2D work on the two sections as well, very inconvenient.

[Daniel Kovacs]

Hello,

I looked at how the fix is progressing. The developers are working on it, there were just some more severe issues that needed to be addressed first, but we definitely want to fix this in ARCHICAD 22 in an update. When we release the fix, you will find it in the Release Note as fix #236728.

Thanks for the patience (and the notification).

Regards,

[Stress Co_]

Working in AC23
(and AC22... had not noticed which update).
Thank you.