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Relative Angle Help

CFS_Mike
Booster

I have a drawing that has weird angles being created (like 89.997 degrees) and I keep having to triple check everything to make sure whatever I draw is precisely 90 degrees or similar. I went into my work environment setting and found tracker and coordinate input. I unchecked the boxes for "Use relative angle measures" and "Use angle relative to the last Snap Reference Line", is this going to stop the slightly off angles from showing up as snap guides? It's really annoying. 


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Barry Kelly
Moderator

I have the same settings with the addition of the last one - expand tracker automatically - not that that will make a difference.

Also check the input constraints and guides to see you have no wired angles in there.

This is from 22 but should be the sane in other versions.

 

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When placing elements, make sure you have the snap guides turned on so you can see where you are going and can snap to those guides and watch the angle in the tracker.

 

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Also SHIFT will constrain mouse direction.

 

And be sure to be using the Orthogonal grid and not the rotated grid.

 

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To be doubly sure, I set my rotated grid to also be orthogonal or something obvious like 45°.

 

Barry.

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No. I have my tolerances set to 4 decimal places and it's still off by some insane decimal place, like 0.0000001 I can tell because whatever I'm drawing is just a little bit blurry on my screen. I have to draw and then go back, select the item, type in 0.000000 degrees, and then intersect the two items. It is really just unintelligent that Archicad doesn't have a way to reset everything to 0, 90, 180, & 270, not to mention extremely aggravating and time consuming. I wish we used Revit instead. Screenshot 2025-09-17 at 9.42.39 AM.png

Lingwisyer
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The lack of a proper ortho mode has been a long term wish... Here is a wish from after the great purge.

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