does AC have a Select freeze button?

[Anonymous]

does AC have something similare to a freeze selected button?
IE, select an item and push the button and it will freeze out the layer that item is on?
would be so much easye rand faster then Ctrl L find layer freeze back to work.

[Erich]

Yes, look at the quick layers pallet.

[Anonymous]

right click menu?

[Erich]

xristina wrote:
right click menu?

True. And this can work well, but there are slight differences. See the following article.

http://aec.cadalyst.com/aec/Column%3A+ArchiCad/Quick-Layers-Palette-ArchiCAD-Insights-Tutorial/Artic...

[Barry Kelly]

You can also lock individual elements and not just entire layers (in the EDIT menu).

Barry.

[Karl Ottenstein]

I find the QuickLayers palette indispensible. Not sure if I could/would work without it. As mentioned in older threads, the QuickLayers palette does not interact with the WorkEnvironment properly - and so its visibility and position is not 'remembered'. Because of that, I assign a shortcut key to toggle its display. (Since cmd-L is layers, I use cmd-shift-L for QuickLayers.)

Barry wrote:
You can also lock individual elements and not just entire layers (in the EDIT menu).

The only time I've found this useful was when marquee-stretching to keep certain elements from being stretched. E.g., locking the wall layer won't help if you want to stretch some, but not all, walls. Have you or others found good uses for locking individual elements?

Cheers,
karl

[Erika Epstein]

Karl wrote:
The only time I've found this useful was when marquee-stretching to keep certain elements from being stretched. E.g., locking the wall layer won't help if you want to stretch some, but not all, walls. Have you or others found good uses for locking individual elements?

Cheers,
karl

Yes, I do this often so I have short cut keys to lock and unlock.
And lets not forget that it was Karl who came up with the idea of and taught us all how to make the QUICKLAYERS palette. It was such a fabulous work smart idea that Graphisoft added as a standard!

[Karl Ottenstein]

Erika wrote:
And lets not forget that it was Karl who came up with the idea of and taught us all how to make the QUICKLAYERS palette. It was such a fabulous work smart idea that Graphisoft added as a standard!

Thanks, Erika. But, did I? Old and forgetful that I am, I'm not sure that I did? I did do that add-on for AC 9 which became unnecessary in 10 when GS gave us the 'On Screen View Options' toolbar. But, I don't remember doing a QuickLayers-type thing...?

Cheers,
Karl

[Erika Epstein]

Old and forgetful am I I was thinking of your QuickDisplay tool. It did open up another world for many of us to be able to create our own toolbars and that was an advance from 10 onwards which included a Quick Display tool bar.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Thanks, Erika. But, you don't get to play the old card ... however old you get, I'll always be older. 😉

K