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

[TomWaltz]

Achille wrote:

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...

Ah yes, the old "Archicad and Plotmaker should act the same but don't" problem..... also one of my favorites!

[Anonymous]

~/archiben wrote:

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

I was not aware of that, humble appologies.

[Anonymous]

Yes I got that (Ctrl Alt) the wrong way round. Alas this problem still plagues many of us, and the only way round it is to hit the Ctrl + Alt then Ctrl + Alt again to cancel out.

It is annoying.

Also, I like selecting items then using the keys cause if you miss the elements you have selected, you lose the selection but if you miss the items after using the keystrokes you still retain the selection.

and

if you want to move/copy using a relative point you cannot do it using the 'drag with the pointer then Ctrl or Alt method'.

Raoul

So when is it getting fixed then?

[Anonymous]

If you have mapped a zoom command to a Ctrl+something, when you Drag an item and then zoom to see precisely where to place it, the command transfors into Drad-a-Copy. Sometimes hitting Ctrl again does not change it. A workaround I found is to keep Ctrl pressed till you place the item where you want to.

My advice for zooming is to map the command to a single buttom without Ctrl, which you can do in AC9 (at last).

[Erika Epstein]

kliment wrote:

My advice for zooming is to map the command to a single buttom without Ctrl, which you can do in AC9 (at last).

And this you accomplish with both hands full!
Congratulations

[Anonymous]

Thanks, Erika!
Just doing the best I could