Mouse point selection .....

[Robborito]

I know this subject has been tabled before however I still don't understand the reasoning put forward by CA support - so Ill ask it again of this forum of users...

Why is it that the normal CAD point selection using the left mouse button, is not available in either Home Designer or Chief Architect.

Instead we have this point and hold method with the left mouse button.

I asked support on this topic a while back and I was told that CA has the regular left mouse button point selection and HD does not. (cause it's DIY)

My CA demo - has same mouse button point and hold as my HDPro2024 that I use (nearly) every day.

Is there a particular pointing devise (out there) that the current method of point and hold is best suited to?

If so, what is it. Does anyone know of it, or use it maybe?

Jeff.

 

[y-g-m-n]

HUH?

 

I tried playing and do not understand your issue... Maybe I am just not getting your issue...

 

Example?

[Robborito]

OK - When you (left mouse button) pick a start point, do you hold the left mouse button down until you pick a second point-

and so on to all other points?

ArchiCAD, Revit, AutoCAD - point selection is different.

The left mouse button selects or clicks on the points without having to be holding mouse button down between points.

That's it in brief.

 

[RoyJames]

Here are a couple methods of selecting existing CAD points:

 

1.       If you have the Place Point tool active, you should be able to select an existing CAD point to make it the active point. Ensure you are right over the center of it.

2.       With just the selection tool active, you can double click on a CAD point and hit Esc or Cancel out of the Move CAD Point window to make the current point active.

 

I hope this helps!

[Robborito]

7 hours ago, RoyJames said:

I hope this helps!

RoyJames - no nothing to do with your post - sorry.

I'm talking about the workflow of using the left mouse button to select a point in general modelling, drawing etc.

Currently - we have to hold down the left mouse button between points as we draw,

I want to use the left mouse button to click on points without holding down the button between points.

Points being - say if I was drawing a new wall or a poly line for example.

The normal CAD method of point selection when drawing/modeling.

CA support tells me its a method held-back in HDPro, but available in Chief. Why?

I can't find it I'm my demo of Chief.

 

 

[y-g-m-n]

I got it now.... I think please confirm

 

TO draw a wall or a line or anything really

You click start point and HOLD LEFT button on mouse and drag to wall end point and then release button.

 

What you want is click start point and then release button while you move mouse to end point and then click left again to set end point.

 

 

Never notice this, I guess I just got used to HD control and go.

I draw in AutoCAD and SolidWorks as well and cannot tell you how I draw without opening them up and drawing then I could tell ya.

 

Been using them all for so long that I just draw when I am using them.

[RoyJames]

16 hours ago, Robborito said:

Currently - we have to hold down the left mouse button between points as we draw,

I want to use the left mouse button to click on points without holding down the button between points.

 

Thanks for clarifying. I believe the function you are referring to is called "continuous draw". This is currently a CA-only function. It works by right clicking and dragging using a tool like the wall or line tool. Once you click and drag the first segment, it will continue off of the endpoint for a new segment and you need only to click to place the next end point. Is this what you were referring to?

[Robborito]

7 hours ago, RoyJames said:

Is this what you were referring to?

RoyJames - yes exactly.

Its a turn-around from conventional CAD drawing and is the same as standard by Autodesk etc.

Why are we penalised from the same function? It's awkward and a new method to learn and master.

In my use of HDPro I regularly get bound up with this un-conventional mouse use.

CAD drafting this way is problematic and unproductive for me. Takes forever with undo's and re-do's.

Its the Left mouse button I'm referring too -  you mention the right button.

Why has the conventional left button use been changed by CA in HDPro?

Thanks for your response.

 

And Y_G_M_N - yes I think you'll see it is different when you use other software next.

Thanks.

[y-g-m-n]

when I draw in HD I do it differently than autocad and others.

in AC & SW you can click start point hold mouse for orthogonal lines and enter length - Accuracy.

 

With HD I draw a wall and then make say a box - then I click on wall and move then or change lengths etc by changing temp dims to ensure accuracy.

 

Same thing with using HD lines and circles. etc the way I like to do it is draw something close and then click on it and adjust temp dims...

 

I guess that is why I never noticed the click and hold method of drawing things...

 

Now I will be thinking of it.... ARGGGGGG should have never read this thread LOL.