Intelligent Text box feature in ArchiCAD ?
Looking to place an interactive box like the publish box or the issue box, that can be controlled with an interactive schedule custom created. Any ideas ?
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Door schedule randomly changes, updates, and then wont . . .
here is a screen shot of my door schedule, I had it all laid out on the layout, then that updated itself in some weird way and jumbled all my stuff around and lost all of my column widths that I set etc etc. Then I try to open it in the navigator to ...
BIM Server Access - internally and remotely with a fixed IP
Good morning, Working on ArchiCAD and having some issues while connecting from outside the office to the BIM server. In ArchiCAD 17 and earlier the BIM would recognize if we were inside the office and use the internal IP address our outside of the of...
Window Schedule - Materials column?
So. here's the gist. In the "elements" windows schedule scheme settings, the column for "MATERIAL" indicates the windows actual "surface material". I've had to resort to having to create a duplicate of the "Paint-Whitewash" surface material and calli...
Importing AutoCAD standards to make ArchiCAD Standards
What has been your experience for importing AutoCAD CADD/BIM standards to make for newly to be established ArchiCAD Standards ? Anything, file layouts, referenced drawings, layer sets, pen maps, color maps ? Text too, fonts and the like, such as gene...
Exporting from Archicad 17 produces errors
Trying to import a model from Archicad 17 into 3DS Max but having major issues. I have imported a few models from 16 as .3ds files without too many problems, apart from smoothing some of the polys. But now i am experiencing a problem that i've never ...
AC 18 IFC News Features clips
There are 4 new clips on the ArchiCAD YouTube channel about IFC-related improvements in AC18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ShBkacmxc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0ZUes-KXA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8V3I5OfgK0 https://www.youtube.com/...
DWG import not showing doors correctly
Good morning. I am trying to open a DWG file and it opens fine except some of the doors show up as rectangles or placeholders and other show up fine. Is there a setting that I am missing? Thank you for your help.
DDS CAD
Hello there, --- Short Story: I am looking for any reviews on DDS-CAD (HVAC / Plumbing and Elec) for our small MEP Firm as I cant seem to find any forums or independent reviews. Does anybody know of any, or have had an experience using there products...
Saving to dwg
Hi all, Consultants have called and told me that the dwg files converted from archicad 15 had a different origin point than a previous dwg file I had created for the same project. I would like to know if there is a way to pinpoint the origin point wh...
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