Extend Poly Arc

[Anonymous]

How do you extend an arc (or any other CAD item) that was made with a polyline to another object? When I click on the polyarc (Shift+Click), then Ctrl+click the other object, the arc doesn't do anything except make a red x on the object to be extended to.

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Polylines won't extend or adjust

You have to stretch with the arrow or marquee. They can also be trimmed.

BTW the red X is a hotspot showing the projected point(s) of intersection. This is a very old feature which can still come in handy occasionally.

[Anonymous]

Here's what I'm trying to do...

I'm making a barrel dormer. When I use the curved roof tool, I end up getting a straight plan somehow instead of a curved roof (LOL). So, I'm make a profile of a curved roof, then using Profiler. Now, I make an arc for the bottom part of the profile and want to "copy and offset" to make the top part of the arc (like the Offset Polygon option). I can make the "offset" part work using a polyarc, but I can make it work for the regular arc. Help!

Thanks.

[Link]

So, I'm make a profile of a curved roof, then using Profiler.

Arghhh!

The barrel dormer can easily be constructed by creating the profile in plan and spacebar clicking on it, then extruding it down (to get the correct orientation - not upside down) and finally completing the roof in an upwards direction at the correct length of the barrel.

Too easy!

Cheers,
Link.

[Djordje]

SCSCadMan wrote:
Here's what I'm trying to do...

Did you try getting some training, or at least going through the StepByStep tutorial?

Please don't get me wrong - it is VERY obvious from your questions that nobody ever showed you how to efficiently use ArchiCAD, and that you are trying to work as in the previous software you used. VERY time wasting and frustrating, not only with ArchiCAD - with any software around.

[Anonymous]

I had the Basic ArchiCAD training class, but that didn't teach me all the rest of the stuff. Unfortunately, right now I'm in a situation where deadlines are pressing with very little time to read. When I do read, the manuals are hard to understand...no offense to whoever wrote them. We do custom housing, so I very quickly get into a lot of complex situations. I'm learning a lot in a short amount of time, and in the few days that I've been on the forum, people have been extremely helpful!! I'm getting a lot done but obviously have a ways to go. Thank you to everyone for their answers and patience. The thing that makes the learning process worse is this is the 4th drawing program I've had to learn in my career, so everything gets jumbled up. LOL. I'll switch from one program to the next in a day's time for different reasons and go to use a command from one program forgetting that it doesn't work in another.

But, no, no one explained thoroughly how to use a lot of the tools.

[Anonymous]

SCSCadMan wrote:
I had the Basic ArchiCAD training class, but that didn't teach me all the rest of the stuff. Unfortunately, right now I'm in a situation where deadlines are pressing with very little time to read.

You might want to consider calling in a hired gun to help you get the projects out on time, get you started with standards, and even teach you a thing or two in the process.

This is how I have primarily worked with my clients. I am too busy to even think of coming down to Tennessee, but Link might have some time for you. You should send him a personal message and see if you can work him into the project budget.

Consulting rates only seem expensive until you see how much production we old hands can squeeze out of the gear. Not to mention how much more productive you become in the process.

[Anonymous]

Another draftsman I work with is looking into the Mobile Archicad guy to gets rates before we present it to our boss. You're right. It would help a lot!

[Link]

Another draftsman I work with is looking into the Mobile Archicad guy to gets rates before we present it to our boss. You're right. It would help a lot!

The Mobile ArchiCAD guy?! That's all I am?

Just joking! Although I am not a hired gun, as such, Matthew is right. Most people simply don't know what they are missing by not getting comprehensive training. The only hard part of my work is convincing people the value in a customized CAD Template and the knowledge of how to use it quickly and confidently with ArchiCAD. All my past clients have been very happy & depending on the scope of their work, have reported an increase in productivity of 100%-600%! And because my rates are surprisingly affordable, the training nearly always pays for itself in the first project.

That's about enough of a plug - my schedule is wide open from October 24. Feel free to contact me.

Cheers,
Link.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

For learning the basic tools, I am a big big fan of the ArchiCAD Training Guide. And I will also be eternally grateful to Eric Batte's 'Standard Template System" for teaching me how to organise a project. You can get both of them at www.parch.com.