Why isn't it possible to offset a circle or an ellipse as a copy?

[Anonymous]

Hello to everyone.

I am very new to ArchiCAD and this community.

That's why my question is very simple. In case of complex poly lines or rectangles and so on it is very easy to offset this lines as a copy. Why doesn't it work with circles and ellipses? Am I doing something wrong? It's quite a simple task for such a program. It should be there somewhere but I can't find it...???

[Barry Kelly]

You mean when you start to drag a line and then you activate a copy?
If so, that is not truly offsetting the line.
But I don't think that is what you mean anyway.

Using the offset edge option in the pet palette is going to give an offset .
If this is what you are using then as you would have noticed the circle/ellipse does not have this option.
Why that is so I can not say.

You can however use the offset tool.
Select the tool you want to draw with.
Activate the offset tool and then magic wand on the element/s you want to offset.
Using this you can offset lines from walls or wall from lines (including circles).


I also moved your post as it did not belong in the 'Archicad +' section as that is for discussions about Archicad.
Pleas try to post in a relevant section or you may find your post just gets moved by a moderator.


Barry.

[Dontknow]

You can't offset circles or elipses as a line but you can offset them as a fill.
While you're using 'Offset all edges' press 'Ctrl' or 'Cmd' for one offset copy or 'Ctrl-Alt' or 'Cmd-Alt' for multiple offset copies.

[runxel]

This also bugs me. But there is a very weird workaround:
"Open" the circle with the pet palette, offset it (it works now, if the circle is just an arc!), close it again.

Very crude, to say the least.
Hopefully GS will address this with 25.

[Barry Kelly]

runxel wrote:
This also bugs me. But there is a very weird workaround:
"Open" the circle with the pet palette, offset it (it works now, if the circle is just an arc!), close it again.

Very crude, to say the least.
Hopefully GS will address this with 25.

You can also copy the circle, paste the circle and then stretch the copy.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:
You mean when you start to drag a line and then you activate a copy?
If so, that is not truly offsetting the line.
But I don't think that is what you mean anyway.

Thank you for the answer. Yes, actually it was what I meant. Still can't get used to the different approach in comparison to AutoCAD...

[Anonymous]

Dontknow wrote:
You can't offset circles or elipses as a line but you can offset them as a fill.
While you're using 'Offset all edges' press 'Ctrl' or 'Cmd' for one offset copy or 'Ctrl-Alt' or 'Cmd-Alt' for multiple offset copies.

Wow, that's cool! Thank you! That is very good to know.

[Anonymous]

runxel wrote:
[...]
Hopefully GS will address this with 25.

I hope that too! Thanks for the answer!