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...

about Request function

can i create a certain add-on with ApiDevKit to add a new request item?if possible, how?thanks.

Creating a Slab from scratch

Hello!I am new to this forum, so please forgive me if this topic has been covered before... I am developing a plugin for ArchiCAD, and I am having a problem creating a slab "from scratch" (rather than modify an existing slab element). I've read the d...

way to interconnect

How could I link additional data to elements, which is freely accessed by multiply addons?

[newbie] opening a textfile and reading it line by line

I tried to use the example from the documentation: #include "DG.h" // brings file selection dialog (and also includes Location) IO::Location loc; if (!DGGetOpenFile (&loc)) { // returns the selected location in loc // no file (folder, link) location ...

Custom element settings panels

While working with panel test example, i've got trouble.Infobox with custom panel works, but:1) defaults for the element are not changed while using eyedropper2) when I add menu in my addon, customm panel is dissapearing when calling this menuP.S. He...

Addons in Plotmaker

Are there any ways to add menus in Plotmaker to call my addon's functions?. The only way i find in APIdevkit 5.1 is to use file open/save routine. I want to create addon which is drawing layout book content on the first layout. Thanks.

Which Compiler?

There are a bunch of MicroSoft C++ compilers out there, in your opinion which should I buy to do API programming? I'm looking for compatibility, but also longevity. If I buy a compiler it had better last a few years -- I don't want to have to upgrade...

[newbie] how about 'hello world'

When I wrote my introduction to the forum, Karl said Looking at the PDF link that you posted, I think you're in for some "fun", Tor Jørgen! Welcome! I'm glad for the welcome, but I worry that maybe I'm in over my head - I guess thats where the fun st...

referencing by name, not index number

I am digging through the settings for defaults of different element types, and I found that many attributes are referenced by number, not name.So if I want to set the font to "Arial" or the layer to "Text - Notes," I have to reference them by their i...

Dimension witness gap settings

I am trying to write an API which create dimensions in various situations, using a default made in the API.I have most of the settings figured out, but the witnessVal seting in API_DimElem is killing me. It's the setting for the gap between the end o...

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