SNAPPING MODE in 3D, can not find the corners!

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I am trying to work in 3D but what has been giving a hard time is; even though I have snapping mode on, SOME TIMES I can locate (check or mercedes mark) the edges, corners of walls, slabs....and some times not. I am usually in OpenGL mode. Zooming in or out does not change things either. For example:
I can locate with the mercedes the top edge of a slab but not the bottom edge of the slab or with the check mark the bottom corner of a wall but not the top. Any feed back?
Thanks,
Joseph Harouni

[__archiben]

are you working with the full 3D model, or have you marqueed an area? i have found that any side or 'node' that is produced with the marquee cutting plane is not recognised by archiCAD as a true snap point . . .

HTH
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

~/archiben wrote:
are you working with the full 3D model, or have you marqueed an area? i have found that any side or 'node' that is produced with the marquee cutting plane is not recognised by archiCAD as a true snap point . . .

HTH
~/archiben

I am using the full model; and not being able to find all edges and corners of elements is stopping me to model in 3D. Is it that ArchiCad has this limit or I am missing another setting besides SNAPPING MODE?
Thanks,
Joseph Harouni

[Dwight]

Some elements will have nodes/hotspots at the plane where they are created, and hover above.

To learn where these non-intuitive nodes exist, Select All and see where the nodes appear.

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
To learn where these non-intuitive nodes exist, Select All and see where the nodes appear.

Hi,
I selected the walls in 3D, same color and shape nodes appear at top as the bottom, but I can only locate the bottom of walls at the surface they were created and only where the reference lines of the walls are.
This all the nodes I can locate?!
Thanks,
Joseph

[Dwight]

With walls the edges are only active at the bottm.

[Djordje]

Joseph wrote:
I selected the walls in 3D, same color and shape nodes appear at top as the bottom, but I can only locate the bottom of walls at the surface they were created and only where the reference lines of the walls are. This all the nodes I can locate?!

These are not, strictly speaking, nodes at all. With the Mercedes cursor, you can snap to an EGDE. For the walls, only the bottom edge, not the top one. For the slabs, only the top edge, not the botom one.

NODES are corners - the ones that get highlighted when the object is selected in 3D.

HTH,

[Laszlo Nagy]

Djordje wrote:

Joseph wrote:
I selected the walls in 3D, same color and shape nodes appear at top as the bottom, but I can only locate the bottom of walls at the surface they were created and only where the reference lines of the walls are. This all the nodes I can locate?!

These are not, strictly speaking, nodes at all. With the Mercedes cursor, you can snap to an EGDE. For the walls, only the bottom edge, not the top one. For the slabs, only the top edge, not the botom one.

NODES are corners - the ones that get highlighted when the object is selected in 3D.

HTH,

In the Settings Dialog of the given Tool, you can always see what is the reference plane of the element. The reference plane of a Wall is its bottom, it will be 'built' by the program upward from here. Same for a Column. For Beams and Slabs the reference plane is their top, that's why edges and corners of only that plane are selectable and 'sensed' by the SmartCursor.
You can check each construction element how it behaves in this aspect.
Laszlo

[Djordje]

laszlonagy wrote:

Djordje wrote:

Joseph wrote:
I selected the walls in 3D, same color and shape nodes appear at top as the bottom, but I can only locate the bottom of walls at the surface they were created and only where the reference lines of the walls are. This all the nodes I can locate?!

These are not, strictly speaking, nodes at all. With the Mercedes cursor, you can snap to an EGDE. For the walls, only the bottom edge, not the top one. For the slabs, only the top edge, not the botom one.

NODES are corners - the ones that get highlighted when the object is selected in 3D.

HTH,

In the Settings Dialog of the given Tool, you can always see what is the reference plane of the element. The reference plane of a Wall is its bottom, it will be 'built' by the program upward from here. Same for a Column. For Beams and Slabs the reference plane is their top, that's why edges and corners of only that plane are selectable and 'sensed' by the SmartCursor.
You can check each construction element how it behaves in this aspect.
Laszlo

... and to elaborate further:

Nodes are snappable on and off the refrence plane (excpet for the roofs - top only).

Special snap points (half etc) are snappable only on the reference planes.