Cloud on cursor

[Eric Milberger]

I am working on my Elevations, and every time I do something a cloud pops up on my coursar and I have to wait 30-40 seconds to do anything.

I have to create visible joints in a wall and do this by placing an shape that is invisible.  It cuts a joint in the wall.

I need to copy it over and over and in hangs me up.

I was also placing small slabs as paint lines above a slab and same things.  

This is painful.  

Never had this before v27 and have just noticed it lately.

Operating system used: Windows 11

[Barry Kelly]

Do you mean a cloud like this?

As far as I know you should only see this in 3D Perspective view when you are trying to place an element above the horizon line.

Is your Archicad build up to date?

Barry.

[Eric Milberger]

I know what the symbol means - saving to the cloud . but what cloud as I do not have a cloud account with Graphisoft

[Barry Kelly]

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@Eric Milberger wrote:

I know what the symbol means - saving to the cloud . but what cloud as I do not have a cloud account with Graphisoft

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It has nothing to do with saving to the cloud.

In 3D perspective mode it means you are trying to place an element in mid air and there is nothing for it to anchor to.

I have never seen this in an elevation.

I was just asking if that is the same cursor that you mean when you say 'cloud'.

In my opinion it should not happen and I would restart my machine.

I would also make sure Archicad is up to date with the lates update.

If it continues to occur and in all files, I would then contact my local support.

Barry.

[Eric Milberger]

Machine rebooted and it only happens after doing something then there is the cloud logo and a slow down.

[Eric Milberger]

Keeps happening and causes you to stop for 10 sec +/-  do something and 10 sec.....over and over

[Eric Milberger]

I keep getting a cloud cursor and it stays for 5 minutes and prevents me from working.

Operating system used: Windows 11

[Barry Kelly]

I have merged this with your previous post on the same subject.

There should be no cloud cursor in plans or elevations.

Only in 3D perspective views.

I did find a couple of older posts mentioning the same problem.

There seemed to be no definitive solution.

In one it said to copy and paste the model to a new file.

In another it was asking how far your model is from the project origin?

Another was to turn on 'snap to surface' - but that would only affect 3D views.

I would be contacting you local Archicad support if you have not done so already.

Barry.

[Eric Milberger]

When I am working in my model 

Every time I work on something in the model - when it is visible I can't to anything as it won't select anything.  I dot see a horizon line anywhere as it would have no bearing on the model.  When in Art Classes this would be a 6'ish and I never see a horizon anywhere - it has no bearing and not needed.

So the cloud pops up and stops work repeatedly as if it was an hourglass showing a frozen processor trying to catch up.

And my models are not so complicated yet.

[Barry Kelly]

So you are only seeing the cloud cursor in your 3D view?

And not in the elevations as per your first post?

You will not see a horizon in 3D if in the 3D Styles, your sky and ground background colour are the same.

Try changing from Generic Perspective to Generic Axonometric 3D view.

Then you should not get the cloud cursor at all.

Barry.