Special Menu?

[Anonymous]

Is the special menu gone? It appears in the WE lists but I can't seem to get it to appear or use it's functions.

Thanks

[Karl Ottenstein]

Aaron wrote:
Thank You for the tutorial. This is almost as intuitive as the Calculate Menu! That's why it is so SPECIAL!

(You're welcome. 😉 )

Karl

[Anonymous]

Thx Karl

It just didnt cross my mind to look in the WE.
If you are used everything to be put there for you, then you need some time familiarise with the idea that you have to do it your self.

Thx a lot

[Jefferson]

Greetings -

In setting up 10 special menu I am not seeing Show Penetration Lines, one of three that I used with confidence. [The rest I leave alone on good advice from those who know better..] Can anyone who's been there yet, a successful insertion of special menu, help me locate the equivalent setting please.

T.I.A.!

[Anonymous]

Ditto on the missing special menu.

Those penetration lines are really handy...

-Nathan

[Anonymous]

So where did they put this command?

Don't tell me GS did such a fab upgrade, and got rid of something really useful from AC 9? They never would have done that, right?

-Nathan

[Djordje]

Nathan wrote:
Don't tell me GS did such a fab upgrade, and got rid of something really useful from AC 9? They never would have done that, right?

Never.

Oh ... OLE, EPS ... oh well ...

[Jefferson]

Seriously Djordje, is there somewhere I can go, or someone I can pester to help me retrieve this invaluable tool?? This was a setting I left on all the time and I am really missing it. The 3D images are really funky without it, ESPECIALLY with the internal engine. Can't stand open GL..........too much like a game, not architecture. IMHO.

[Anonymous]

I know some comands in special menu (section in 3d) but not all of them.


Does anyone or Graphisoft has some document for "how to use " them
I could not find anything in Archicadwiki.

[Thomas Holm]

Jefferson wrote:
Greetings -

In setting up 10 special menu I am not seeing Show Penetration Lines, one of three that I used with confidence. [The rest I leave alone on good advice from those who know better..] Can anyone who's been there yet, a successful insertion of special menu, help me locate the equivalent setting please.

While I agree that it's bad that it's gone, I think they have a purpose. Many more of these lines are shown by default in 10 internal engine, it seems penetrations are calculated with more precision than before.

Perhaps a tedious workaround, but in special cases you could use the solid element operationst to get this. Just make one element operate on the other, but don't hide the operator. That would essentially get you the same result.

[__archiben]

gergazi wrote:
Does anyone or Graphisoft has some document for "how to use " them I could not find anything in Archicadwiki.

they are hidden and 'undocumented' features for a reason - they may not work in all situations (ha!); they may be unstable; they may be commands that decrease the performance drastically; etc.... and you should use them at your own risk. try searching the forum here, you will see more discussions surrounding the use and abuse of special menu commands.

to give you some indication of what they do, you could look at the 'help' string attached to each command. if you select each command in turn in the menu scheme of the work environment you will see a brief description of what each is supposed to do . . .

~/archiben