If only... (Tips & Tricks)

[DGSketcher]

I thought it might help noobs & experienced users alike if there was a thread to share tips and tricks along the lines of "If only I had known this it could have saved me a lot of time!". It is not intended as a wish list or a debating ground for work arounds, simply somewhere to post tips and tricks others may find useful that perhaps aren't obvious or even documented.

[DGSketcher]

Here's a starter I wish I had known about...

Renovation filter tool.
The renovation tool has three standard options for element status- existing demolition, and new. It has multiple filter options that can be set up in any number of ways- hide demo, show but override existing, show new (fully editable and rename-able).

To have multiple design and/or phase options with extra layers, create a Planned Filter option, duplicate it and rename it to Planned Filter Option 2 (or Phase 2), duplicate and rename as many as you want.

Back on the floor plan draw your first design option while the pin is pushed on the renovation filter option. If the pin is not pushed you can go back and pin design elements to the Planned Filter option of your choosing. When you switch to option 2, option 1 pinned elements will turn off. Any unpinned items will remain visible for all other options that are now affected by the different designs.

Originally posted by mkopecky in the v18 release thread.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Tips and Tricks are now part of Help Center. See for announcement and links

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=45971

Direct link to Help Center

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/tips/

[DGSketcher]

ejrolon wrote:
Tips and Tricks are now part of Help Center. See for announcement and links

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=45971

Direct link to Help Center

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/tips/

If only I had known!

[Karl Ottenstein]

And, we have a user Tips and Tricks forum here... which is read-only: maintained by the moderators. Whenever one of the moderators sees something in a thread that is a Tip/Trick that might otherwise be missed and is worth sharing, a copy of it is moved there.

I confess, we have not been very alert in recent years about doing that, so your post here is a good reminder.

The "Best" Tips/Tricks (in GS eyes) will end up in the Help Center. 😉

Cheers,
Karl

[DGSketcher]

Karl wrote:
And, we have a user Tips and Tricks forum here... which is read-only: maintained by the moderators.

Not here to rock the boat but this all sound very controlling! This place used to be a lot more active, what happened? I still see a few familiar names but not the general chatter of the user masses?

[Stress Co_]

Bring back the "Tip of the Month"

[Karl Ottenstein]

DGSketcher wrote:

Karl wrote:
And, we have a user Tips and Tricks forum here... which is read-only: maintained by the moderators.

Not here to rock the boat but this all sound very controlling! This place used to be a lot more active, what happened? I still see a few familiar names but not the general chatter of the user masses?

The activity died, by my impression, during the global recession... The old experts have not come back, and we seem rather to have lots of questions from students and newbies who haven't searched the forums for existing answers (which are invariably there).

The Tips and Tricks forum is moderated to help assure that the tips posted there are made in the context of all of the features of the product. Too often, a newbie posts a 'tip' because they aren't aware of everything AC has to offer. So, moderator "control" keeps those kinds of tips out of the Tips and Tricks forum.

It's not controlling... it's quality control. 😉

[Karl Ottenstein]

Stress wrote:
Bring back the "Tip of the Month"

Agree! Guaranteed an at-least-monthly learning / "aha!" moment... and it was always fun to see who won, and what "prize" Graphisoft sent to them. 🙂

[Laszlo Nagy]

As far as I can see the reason activity seems less is because of the rise of social media. Just consider the Facebook page of ArchiCAD which has over 200 000 likes, there are a lot of people going there and also posting their questions. The same is true for LinkedIn, many discussions there, so there are now more sites where people ask and answer AC-related questions.

Also it may be that only registered user traffic seems less. The reason I say this is because up until last November the most concurrent visitors on the site was around 250 visitors. Then last November there were 325 concurrent visitor at a given moment, a new record. So I think a lot of people ARE visiting ArchiCAD-Talk who are not registered users so you will not see any posts from them.