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Creating a Contour Line with Magic Wand

I'm trying to create a site contour. - I've placed a DWG of a site contour as a worksheet. - I made that Worksheet to Show As Trace Reference. - On the Ground Floor, I drew a rectangular mesh following the boundary of the site. - I selected the newly...

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Archicad 20 to C4D

Hi When re-exporting an Archicad model to C4D (with Vray) for rendering, I've discovered that I cannot reference the previous file's textures, cameras, rendering settings etc. I had used the 'din3d' plugin on previous versions of Archicad (which was ...

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Super Slow DWG translation from AC19?

Hi everyone, Apologies if this has been answered previously however we are experiencing super slow DWG translations from AC19. I had not seen this with older AC versions (pre-AC16) translating much more complex drawings.... The Site Plan takes about ...

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IFC base quantities

Hi there, I am looking for a solution in order to get the external dimensions of walls stored in the IFC base quantities. Indeed, the IFC base quantities are based on the wall center to center dimensions, so I am looking for a tool in archicad which ...

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Link schedule data to text field in plan view.

Hi. I'm trying to find a way to display the sum of several zones areas in the plan view. I've created a schedule with groups the zones a calculate the total surface. However I'm only able to place this schedule on a layout. I can't find a way to plac...

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IFC rule with boolean resault

Is it possible to make a rule for a wall that says, if my wall is on a specific layer then my custom (boolean) parameter says "true" and if not it says "false"?? If so, please tell my how. Thank you!

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