Archicad C++ API

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...

Using the Development Kit with Visual Studio 2022

Hi everyone, In the last couple of weeks we got several questions regarding Visual Studio 2022 and the API DevKit. If you try to use VS 2022 to build your AddOns, you have to keep in mind a few things. First, Archicad 25 and Archicad 26 is built with...

Walls, Windows

If I have a wall, and in this wall there is a window. How can I find the window relative height and relative distance. In the API_WindowType structure i can not see any relevant information.

ArchiCAD on the future computers

i found a video from youtube (surpise) and i wonder if archicad could be used on those computers as soon they appear on market. This video shows how photoshop works on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN4grR6v6xk&feature=relatedIn the other video ...

Find dimension value in element

help me find dimension value in element(*memo.dimElems).dimVal = 3 (value to project zero) This be only information on value variables according to picture value relative origin at create elevation dimension not find help help

Requesting

Sorry I was going to do a search for this but the search seems to be down. I was wondering if there is a way to request the pen weight and description for a pen?

AutoText Functions

Hello all,I am trying to create dynamic Autotext within the projectInfo Dialog box. I cant seem to add a new item into the dialog box using the API. APIAny_SetAnAutoTextID just lets me change the default elements. I cant find a new I hope that makes ...

[API] breakin long time operation from API

Hello! I have long time working algorithm, and I start it by pressing button on dialog box. Unfortunately I cant brake it. ArchiCAD doesn't process any messages and i have to wait until the end. I've try to put algorithm in thread, but ArchiCAD crash...

Creating a mesh from scratch using the API

Hi. I'm supposed to write a function that generates a mesh starting from a (x,y,z) coord set. So far the correct usage of the mesh element's memo has eluded me. Could someone help me with a piece of souce code that correctly creates a mesh so that I ...

Walls and their direction

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to extract information from archicad regarding the orientation of a wall. That is to say if the reference line is to the left or right or top or bottom of the screen.

model generated from external XML file?

Hello all, Is there a way to building an AC model based on info attained from an external XML file. If so, what programming/scripting language does ArchiCAD employ to achieve such need?Cheers habiatuq

[LibPart] Placing on scene from plugin

Hello, I need to place LibPart using API functions from plugin. Simple Example: I've defined box.gsm: XFORM 1, cos(alfa), 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0 BLOCK A, B, 1 I've added path to it in plugin: IO::Location rab("D:/GDLobjects/"); if(!rab.IsValid(...

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