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New Developer Hub Migration Completed

[UPDATE] Hi all, thank you for your patience. We are happy to announce that the migration of the Developer Hub has been completed. The Developer Forum is officially retired. To get a quick overview of the new Developer Hub, kindly check out this arti...

Go To Navigator view

Hi help please.having problems with knowing what/how to pass a navigator's view into this function: APIDo_GoToViewID"This function simulates the action when you open a view from the Project Navigator."I have theses structures:API_NavigatorItem API_Na...

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Embedding a Web Browser

Hello everyone,i am trying to integrate a web browser (e.g. Chromium CEF) into an ArchiCad Addon. Specifically i want to embed the browser window into a pallete or a non modal dialog in ArchiCAD. I am wondering what would be the best approach to do t...

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Intercept layer hidden/show events.

Hello,I've implemented all the below functions and put a breakpoint in them. It appears that none of the below is hit when I hide a layer/show all.ACAPI_Notify_CatchProjectEventACAPI_Notify_CatchViewEventACAPI_Notify_CatchToolChangeACAPI_Notify_Catch...

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How to triangulate arcs

Hello, I'm new to Archicad and am looking into a bug whereby shell objects doesn't appear ( I suspect because there isn't an implementation to handle arcs/shell). The original implementer of our archicad codebase left so I'm picking up the pieces so ...

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ARCHICAD Developer Resource Site

Hi fellow developers,A new API site (http://archicadapi.graphisoft.com) has just been opened. From now on this will be the central place for: registrationdownload the development kitsaccess and search the latest API documentationread FAQs and a blog ...

Work environment

I would like to modify the W/E by either changing the layout, shape and size of the drop down menus or adding a "ribbon" like in the MS products. Is this something that can be done with the development API? My target is the toolbox right now as I wou...

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Create a Drawing from a file?

How do you link a drawing to an external file? On ArchiCAD you just click on "an external source" -> click "Browse" -> choose the file. How do you do this with the API? What are the requirements? Creating a drawing from a view is simply by copying th...

Column wrapped finish

Is there a way of getting the surface area of this wrapped finish on column? (Construction method: Wrapped)The first thought that came to mind is the veneer surface area. But when I get the value, it is zero (0.00). This means that this finish is not...