Wishes
Post your wishes about Graphisoft products: Archicad, BIMx, BIMcloud, and DDScad.

Other 3D Softwares Best Features you Wish in Archicad

Rakela Raul
Participant
This might be more effective than the wish list that seems out of control and hope
MACBKPro /32GiG / 240SSD
AC V6 to V18 - RVT V11 to V16
18 REPLIES 18
Rakela Raul
Participant
so far all features mentioned here are beyond important to me.
i wd like some modeling tools that microstation has.
MACBKPro /32GiG / 240SSD
AC V6 to V18 - RVT V11 to V16
Djordje
Ace
oreopoulos wrote:
I find myself all the time drawing lines to measure length of walls. OR changing the origin to create a wall at "x" distance of the walls start. OR...
Use relative coordinates, man ... no need for relocation of the origin.
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Anonymous
Not applicable
Djorje

I do use relative coords.
Draw a wall.
Then you need to draw a wall 3m from the start of the wall.
How do you do it if not moving the orign.
I have the Relative coords pressed but i need to find the starting point of the new wall. Not create a wall AFTER i found the starting point.
Rel Coord work AFTER i have started the operation of wall creation.
Did i understand wrongly?
Djordje
Ace
oreopoulos wrote:
I do use relative coords.
Seems to me you don't ... 😉
oreopoulos wrote:
Draw a wall.
Then you need to draw a wall 3m from the start of the wall.
How do you do it if not moving the orign.
Units are meters.

Place the cursor on the start of the wall, type x3+ and press enter.

For another 3m to the right and 3 above type x3+ enter y3+ enter.
oreopoulos wrote:
Did i understand wrongly?
Maybe; the language can be misleading
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Anonymous
Not applicable
Djordje wrote:
Seems to me you don't ... 😉
I do
oreopoulos wrote:
Units are meters.

Place the cursor on the start of the wall, type x3+ and press enter.

For another 3m to the right and 3 above type x3+ enter y3+ enter.
Well here is my MISTAKE.
I thought that when the relative button is pressed the coords that i input are RELATIVE. THere are not. The + symbol in the end makes them relative. But when i have started a wall then the + symbol in the end is not neccesary. Just x3 and or y3 will suffice.

Thx Djorje. No need to move the user origin
Anonymous
Not applicable
Thanks too, Djordje, I did't know that + trick!

There is a feature in AutoCAD that I like very much and I think it will be very useful in AC too:
You start drawing a line/wall/circle, press Shift to determine the direction and type the distance. No need to press X, Y or R, because the direction along the axis is already determined.
Balazs Simonyi
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
I have splitted this topic, because it became really offtopic.
Continue here.

Balazs
Djordje
Ace
kliment wrote:
You start drawing a line/wall/circle, press Shift to determine the direction and type the distance. No need to press X, Y or R, because the direction along the axis is already determined.
Press A to lock the angle you started drawing at, R to type the distance.
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Anonymous
Not applicable
Djordje wrote:
Press A to lock the angle you started drawing at, R to type the distance.
I know this, Djordie!
That's why I point it out that the AutoCAD way IS better!
Trere is just a small difference between the way the two applications do it but when one uses these commands a lot it matters.