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section/elevation Trace & Reference default alignment

cremsberg
Participant
I wish that sections and elevations, when ghosted over each other using
Trace, would automatically align correctly in default position, especially if they are parallel sections and face the same direction.

Please see this thread for more discussion:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=142650#142650
Claire Remsberg

Remsberg Architecture, P.A.

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Erika Epstein
Booster
Claire,
Don't forget to vote in your own poll!
Erika
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Anonymous
Not applicable
Of course they should align. Isn't that the whole reason for having them?
Erika Epstein
Booster
s2art wrote:
Of course they should align. Isn't that the whole reason for having them?
Too right!
Back in the old days when we layered our sheets of trace we did align them.
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
AC5-18
Onuma System

"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
It also aplies to the worksheets to be traced...it is pain in the ass that alignment must be done everytime the trace reference is changed!!!

Best Regards,
Piotr
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Yes, there could probably be many instances taken into consideration when implementing this:
e.g. not only sections but if any two section/elevation/interior elevation are parallel and face the same direction they should align automatically. This would also apply to any detail/worksheet created from these.
This may also be extended to Layout References where the Reference is a Layout that contains a single Drawing of a S/E/IE.
Many different cases are possible.
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Anonymous
Not applicable
eight years later and there is the same problem.
Please fix that.
2009?
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Erwin Edel
Rockstar
This allways confused me, at the very least I would assume that the origin of each view is the basis for the trace.
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
www.leloup.nl

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