zooming and panning: jumps to blank areas of the plan

[__archiben]

an increasingly annoying quirk that i'm trying to chase down:

often when panning and zooming with the scroll wheel i can be sent miles away from the actual drawing/model area. a click on the navigator preview can sometimes get me back in an instant, but not always.

i'm trying to convince graphisoft that i'm not going mad! anybody else out there experiencing this? if so, please could you give a little information about your set-up (the more the merrier!):

• your platform (mac or pc)?
• your mouse make?
• do you use the navigator preview a lot?
• do you have navigator preview data turned off in the '2D redraw' preferences?
• does it happen all day every day or just when opening a new file?
• have you found other ways around it?
• when did you first notice it?
• etc...


(or am i really just going slightly mad . . . )

thanks
~/archiben

[rgarand]

Same problem here.

I am running Windows XP Pro
ArchiCAD 8.1 build 2275
Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer
happens only when zooming with the scroll wheel
happens quite often when zooming...yet not everytime I zoom with the scroll wheel.

[Anonymous]

I have had the same problem occasionally (though not often) but I get it with the scroll bars and not the wheel. I have seen it on both platforms and I think I remember it starting as early as AC8.0 v1/r1.

I have been using Kensington mice with no special drivers (I like the system defaults best anyway) on both my PC & Mac with no problems.

When it has happened to me, Command/Control+[ (previous view) takes me right back to where I was.

[Anonymous]

Did anybody ever find a good way to fix this problem? I have several users that experience the problem, and one whose floor plan shoots off into outer space even when he's moving slow and trying let the screen fully redraw before the next zoom/pan.

[James Murray]

FWIW, I've noticed less of this in 10 so far. Not a fix, exactly...

[Anonymous]

The guy that was having the most trouble with it says that he Teamworked the project and it's much, much better. Huh!? How does that relate?

Next up: How saving to a PLA with True Line Weight turned on will give your project the ability to do 5 levels of depth in your elevations!

[Link]

Next up: How saving to a PLA with True Line Weight turned on will give your project the ability to do 5 levels of depth in your elevations!

Okay - I'll bite mate, what have you found?!

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Jay wrote:
Did anybody ever find a good way to fix this problem?

I've just gotten quick at hitting the previous view shortcut.

[__archiben]

Jay wrote:
The guy that was having the most trouble with it says that he Teamworked the project and it's much, much better. Huh!? How does that relate?

is he showing only his workspace? i always had a feeling it was something to do with the 2D/screen redraw data being saved to cache at the same time as you issuing a 2D navigation command. most often it occurs directly or soon after loading a project - archicad has not yet had the time to write out all of the temporary files concerning 2D display. it is also most obvious when you issue a pan command right after zooming . . . my guess is that the smaller the file, the less you would experience this kind of behaviour. annoying. and on a heavier note ( ), totally ignored by GS despite the hassle i had given them about it at the time.

Next up: How saving to a PLA with True Line Weight turned on will give your project the ability to do 5 levels of depth in your elevations!

i'm not biting . . .

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Link wrote:
Okay - I'll bite mate, what have you found?!

Gotcha!

All I've found is that, in ArchiCAD, sometimes the solution is stranger than the problem. About 4 months ago we had a project in which a floor slab was causing the the elevations to skip some of the shadowing. Delete the slab and, presto! all the shadows work. It's like clicking the button on my blue pen so my black pen will start writing again. Makes you say, "WTH?"