Pet Palette Customization

[Hobbesnb]

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to adjust the default editing modes of a certain tool. For example, in AC 8.1, when a slab node was selected w/ the a slab/fill type tool, the the default editing mode was to allow you to move that node and reshape the slab. In AC9, the default command is to completely move the slab as an object and i have to change it in the pet palette. I have found this change to be very annoying and would like to change the default editing mode back to moving the node rather than the entire slab.

If anyone has had the same troubles and figured out how to fix it, please let me know.
Thanx

[__archiben]

Hobbesnb wrote:
In AC9, the default command is to completely move the slab as an object and i have to change it in the pet palette. I have found this change to be very annoying and would like to change the default editing mode back to moving the node rather than the entire slab.

If anyone has had the same troubles and figured out how to fix it, please let me know.

does it not depend on what is the active tool in the tool palette? from memory i have a feeling that the pet-palette is contextual in this regard . . . or it at least has a memory of the last used transformation command . . . ? i could be wrong.

~/archiben

[Link]

That's right. If you're in the slab tool and click on a corner, the default will be to move that corner node. If you're in the arrow tool, it will default to moving the whole slab.

Cheers,
Link.

[Hobbesnb]

That was true in AC 8.1 and back, but they went and screwed it all up in AC9. A similar (and just as annoying change) occurs in the Label tool. When selecting an existing label to edit, while label tool is selected, the default edit option was to move just the arrow line while the text remained stationary, whereas now the default is to move the entire label first.

[Anonymous]

That was true in AC 8.1 and back, but they went and screwed it all up in AC9. A similar (and just as annoying change) occurs in the Label tool. When selecting an existing label to edit, while label tool is selected, the default edit option was to move just the arrow line while the text remained stationary, whereas now the default is to move the entire label first.

I have noticed the same annoying "feature". Archicad only remembers the last thing you did, with respect to the pet palette, for a short while. I never use the pet pallette to drag objects because I prefer using quick keys, however inevitably the pet pallette is "re-set" to drag. I have not studied it enough to see what tools this "feature" was implemented for, but I have certainly noticed it for the label tool and polygon editing.