HOW to find the CENTER of a shape in 2d or find its center in 3D ???

[Anonymous]

HOW to find the CENTER of a shape in 2d or find its center in 3D ???

[Lingwisyer]

What are you wanting to be able to do with that? Would the point you are wanting be the centre of the selections bounding box? Or would it be the mid point between opposing corners/edges?

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

There is no way to automate it in Archicad.
Depending on the shape you can place lines in 2D, morph lines in 3D or guidelines in 2D & 3D from the centre of one edge to another and the intersection should give you the point you want.

If working with guidelines you can use the temporary guides or the permanent ones (assuming you are at least version 20) and use the snap points to help yo get the centres of edges.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

@Barry

Thanks Barry ,that's exactly what i wanted

[Laszlo Nagy]

Another way is if you place Snap Guides at the two opposite corners of a Rectangle (using the Q key makes it fast, the Snap Guide appears immediately) and then the Snap Guide will connect them giving you the half point.