To 'Drag a copy' or not to 'Drag a copy'

[Anonymous]

All of the staff (15) in our office have a problem intermittantly when using the drag command. Archicad decides that we want to use the 'drag a copy' command instead. And it takes a bit of fiddling around to get rid of it, ie not just hitting the CTRL key, but Escaping out of the the command completely and re-starting it.

I wish this would not happen.

Roolio

[Anonymous]

Are your alt keys sticky?

Never seen this myself.

[TomWaltz]

Roolio wrote:
All of the staff (15) in our office have a problem intermittantly when using the drag command. Archicad decides that we want to use the 'drag a copy' command instead. And it takes a bit of fiddling around to get rid of it, ie not just hitting the CTRL key, but Escaping out of the the command completely and re-starting it.

I wish this would not happen.

Roolio

If in the middle of a Drag command you hit "Alt" or "Ctrl-Alt", Drag turns into Drag a Copy or Drag Multiple Copies.

You can tell by the small "+" or "++" by the cursor. Pressing Alt or Ctrl-Alt toggles this on and off.

Our office found it so useful, no on actually uses the "Drag a copy" command any more.

[Anonymous]

yes, the drag and drop is a great feature

[Anonymous]

Tom wrote:
If in the middle of a Drag command you hit "Alt" or "Ctrl-Alt", Drag turns into Drag a Copy or Drag Multiple Copies.

Tom

It's actually "Ctrl" or "Ctrl-Alt" isn't it, but that doesn't seem to be the problem Roolio is having. As I read it, "drag a copy" is occurring when not wanted (or invoked) and can't be un-invoked (i.e. hitting "Ctrl" again to get back to simple Drag command).

[TomWaltz]

s2art wrote:

Tom wrote:
If in the middle of a Drag command you hit "Alt" or "Ctrl-Alt", Drag turns into Drag a Copy or Drag Multiple Copies.

Tom

It's actually "Ctrl" or "Ctrl-Alt" isn't it, but that doesn't seem to be the problem Roolio is having. As I read it, "drag a copy" is occurring when not wanted (or invoked) and can't be un-invoked (i.e. hitting "Ctrl" again to get back to simple Drag command).

OH!!! I'm sorry, I totally misread that!

[Link]

That's right and if for example, you use ctrl+' to fit in window during your drag, that ctrl will ~inadvertently~ make a copy.

Keep in mind that the ctrl and ctrl+alt modifiers are toggles, so hitting them again will disable them.

Cheers,
Link.

[__archiben]

Link wrote:
That's right and if for example, you use ctrl+' to fit in window during your drag, that ctrl will ~inadvertently~ make a copy.

and it drives me nuts

s2art wrote:

TomWaltz wrote:
If in the middle of a Drag command you hit "Alt" or "Ctrl-Alt", Drag turns into Drag a Copy or Drag Multiple Copies.

It's actually "Ctrl" or "Ctrl-Alt" isn't it, ...

not on a mac it's not !

cheers
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

I also like using the 'Alt' or 'Option-Alt' (on a MAC) to drag a copy or multiple copies, because it works equally well with MIRROR and ROTATE.

BUT (and it's a big BUT), in Plotmaker I always move things out of position when I meant to copy them, because the the 'Alt' and 'Option-Alt' don't work!

Anybody else suffer from this?

[Achille Pavlidis]

Keith wrote:
I also like using the 'Alt' or 'Option-Alt' (on a MAC) to drag a copy or multiple copies, because it works equally well with MIRROR and ROTATE.

BUT (and it's a big BUT), in Plotmaker I always move things out of position when I meant to copy them, because the the 'Alt' and 'Option-Alt' don't work!

Anybody else suffer from this?

i think you can only use the "drag a copy" command in PM, not the multiple copies drag...