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Zone Stamp is not updating

Anonymous
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I'm using Zone Stamp-02 on 8.1, the one that has Bold Zone Names...
When I Stretch a room, (Display Option = Show Zone Polygon), the zone stamp does not update. So I have, to Select: Options-Update Zone, to get the zone stamp to work. Is there an option to Update, the zone stamp , simultaneously as I stretch the room??
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Aussie John
Newcomer
try a different zone stamp as some dont seem to update
Cheers John
John Hyland : ARINA : www.arina.biz
User ver 4 to 12 - Jumped to v22 - so many options and settings!!!
OSX 10.15.6 [Catalina] : Archicad 22 : 15" MacBook Pro 2019
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Anonymous
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No Zone Stamps, seems to work properly. Can anyone send me, Zone Stamp_2 that works?

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Please.
Erika Epstein
Booster
I don't believe any update automatically.
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
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Anonymous
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So I have, to Select: Options-Update Zone, to get the zone stamp to work. Is there an option to Update, the zone stamp , simultaneously as I stretch the room??
This has been the common procedure for zone stamps in ArchiCAD. One always had to select Update Zone command to have an update of rearranged zones.
Anonymous
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Look at this tip from Jay Rennemeyer,
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=18117&highlight=zone+update#18117
It works for me.
Look also at this post from Laslo Nagy,
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=3304&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=zone+upd...
to understand the consequences of this modification.
Anonymous
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in my opinion not having an automatic area update (as it is with fills) is just completely wrong. And the fact that the minute you change a zone area the numerical area shown is wrong until its updated is a recipe for disaster. The fact that this might happen should be in flashing neon in the manual.

After my brush with disaster - almost walking into a client meeting with completely wrong area/ construction cost numbers i refuse to use the zone tool at all. And, yes i hadn't read the manual as to the lack of update but frankly on something as counterintuitive as that "feature" you shouldn't have to. the feature should never be. I only use fills for areas now. they are fail safe. I will never trust the zone tool. ever.

donald mac donald
Ben Odonnell
Contributor
Mmm.
This seems really strange. In ArchiCAD 7 all of the zones updated automatically.

Ben
Ben O'Donnell
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Aussie John
Newcomer
The area text of the zone stamp I use auto updates when the size is changed
Cheers John
John Hyland : ARINA : www.arina.biz
User ver 4 to 12 - Jumped to v22 - so many options and settings!!!
OSX 10.15.6 [Catalina] : Archicad 22 : 15" MacBook Pro 2019
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Anonymous
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The one I use, (on 6.5), updates automatically. But I liked the Zone Stamp-02 with Bold numbers and other parameters..., I anyone has this Zone that works... pls send it to me.