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Constructing polygonal slab

Anonymous
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Is anyone experiencing problems with constructing polygonal slab with proper sizes by typing the values? No matter which values I enter, the next point always appears in the random spot (less than enterd value), but proper direction.
Just try drawing rectangle 1000x1000 using polygonal method.

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Anonymous
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No problems here.
Anonymous
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Did you measure the result?
I get 975,3x1000 rectangle...
Bruce
Advisor
Check your coordinate input is on relative, not absolute?
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Anonymous
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Vahur wrote:
Did you measure the result?
I get 975,3x1000 rectangle...
And I get 1000×1000 rectangle!
Erwin Edel
Rockstar
Are you using 'distance' or are you typing the x and y values?

I've seen people holding down SHIFT to force the distance to be locked, but not having it properly 'ortho' or of they have it properly 'ortho' and then letting go just before entering the value, moving the mouse slightly and everything becomes slightly skewed, because they just end up moving the cursor at the very end.

I'm afraid it is generally PEBKAC...
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
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Anonymous
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I am using distance and angle. Relative angle is checked in options.
Aren't relative coordinates default for this input?
Wrong distance occurs only for the first node input, all the next nodes are placed correctly.
sinceV6
Advocate
Hi.

It could be related to this problem, so another thing to check is if your default elevation is set to 0.

Best regards.
NCornia
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
Hello,

Build 4020 contains the fix for this issue on both Windows and Mac platforms :

Tested for: ARCHICAD 20 AUS, AUT, FIN, FRA, GER, INT, ITA, NED, NOR, NZE, SWE, UKI, USA
Last modified: November 21, 2016.
Other language versions will be released soon.

Best regards,
Nicholas Cornia
Technical Support Team - GRAPHISOFT North America
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