topic Re: Mirroring Drawings as a build option in Documentation

Mirroring Drawings as a build option

benjaminarstevens — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:18:40 GMT

Hello friends,

I'm curious if drawings can be mirrored on a layout while maintaining dimensions/etc. I assume not, but our office is working on a building that is to be cut-pasted across a site, but one of the modules has to be mirrored for a number of reasons.

Is it simply necessary to make a second file and mirror the entire model?

peace to all

B_B

Re: Mirroring Drawings as a build option

Gordana Radonic — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:51:10 GMT

Hi @benjaminarstevens,

I believe that you cannot mirror drawings on layouts - just rotate, but I believe dimensions' text orientation will not follow that rotation. However, if you rotate a view and save it, dimensions and texts will follow your rotation.

I would also recommend using hotlinks, and while placing hotlinks you can mirror and rotate them. I would recommend this especially if you have repetitive parts of the buildings and/or multiple blocks of the buildings. You can even save the entire building as a hotlink, and place it in the same or separate Archicad instance. Some useful links:

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/28/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC28_Help%2F080_Collaboration%2F080_Collaboration-57.htm&rhsearch=hotlink&rhhlterm=hotlink&rhsyns=%20

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Project-data-BIM/Hotlinked-Modules/ta-p/303819

Hope it helps,

Gordana

Re: Mirroring Drawings as a build option

Lingwisyer — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:23:56 GMT

I am pretty sure that Hotlinking will mirror all of your floorplan dimensions, but you will still need to redo everything that is in an elevation or section View...

Re: Mirroring Drawings as a build option

zoli79 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:44:42 GMT

I added a wish here:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishlist/Mirror-Drawing/idi-p/669950

Re: Mirroring Drawings as a build option

Lingwisyer — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:34:05 GMT

Note: this is a broader wish is about the Drawing Tool in in terms of both Internal and External content while this thread is about Modelling Elements and Modules. It would be a provide a possible solution in this specific situation though.

Re: Mirroring Drawings as a build option

Skyhook — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:35:39 GMT

You should investigate Central Innovations ‘Transformer’ addon. It appears to do what you are looking for….

Re: Mirroring Drawings as a build option

zoli79 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:20:34 GMT

@Lingwisyer wrote:

this thread is about Modelling Elements and Modules.

OP wrote: "I'm curious if drawings can be mirrored on a layout while maintaining dimensions/etc."