Carsten Emde
- Sep 22, 2019
- 2 min read

USING THE POWERFUL MAGIC WAND TOOL IN ARCHICAD

This is a tool I use pretty much every day, it speeds up the modelling or drawing process for many tools by simply hold the space bar down and click. Saying this, it is very important to have the correct settings before you use this tool. There is not really a “default setting” that works for all tools, so this blog explains in detail to use which settings at which time.

Ok, let’s open the Magic Wand Tool settings!

We are going through the settings on the left first with the tracing method preference on linear segments:

Deviation from Curves

With this setting, ARCHICAD calculates the distance from a curve but be aware it is not the exact distance. In the below example I used 20 mm, 100 mm, 200 mm. The smaller the deviation the more “accurate” ARCHICAD can calculate. I put accurately in YYYY because as you can see if the distance is too large ARCHICAD will have to divide the arc into large segments, therefore, it is harder to get close to the mm distance you put in. Tip: Avoid putting in 1 mm as it will give you a lot of tiny segments which can make it quite slow in 2D or 3D when you use a lot of elements.