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About Archicad's design tools, element connections, modeling concepts, etc.

Lock Angle When Moving Items

ETSaum
Booster

In all other versions of Archicad that I run (25 through 29), when I go to move an object, the angle can snap to 45 degree increments (as desired) unless I manually enter an angle. Somehow, I hit a key combination that turned this off in Archicad 27, leading to no angle constraints or snaps. How do I re-enable?

All of the Tracker and Input Constraint variables appear to be the same across all versions, but the others have the the constraints enabled still.

 

Operating system used: Windows 11 23H2

Edward Saum
Windows 11, AC Version 28
edward@fdgarchitecture.com
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Barry Kelly
Moderator

I don't have 27 on this laptop so these images are from 26.

 

The settings are found in the work environment.

 

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But it sounds like you have turned your snap guides off.

 

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Barry.

 

 

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furtonb
Advisor

On a related note, Alt+A locks the movement direction to the vector between your starting point and the current cursor position.

(Alt+X locks the X coordinate, Alt+Y locks the Y coordinate, Alt+R the radius)

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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin

And to lock direction to any angle, type:

 

A <angle value>, then ALT+A

 

Typing A will enable angle value input in the Angle field of the Tracker, while pressing ALT+A will lock the direction to the entered Angle value. For example:

 

A25 ALT+A

 

will look the direction to 25 degrees. A Linear Snap Guide will indicate it.

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