Collaboration with other software
About model and data exchange with 3rd party solutions: Revit, Solibri, dRofus, Bluebeam, structural analysis solutions, and IFC, BCF and DXF/DWG-based exchange, etc.

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DXF 1 to 1

My engineer is having trouble when importing my exported dwg file as it opens at a huge scale. Feet converted to inches I think. How does one export to dwg at a simple 1 to 1 scale?

text on multiple lines

Is it somehow possible to have text on multiple lines in the cell of the schedule? I think of some ASCII characters or UNICODE ones (ALT+something) but I cannot figure how to get it (if possible)

alemanda by Enthusiast
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Tracking time in Archicad

While I am asking dumb questions. Is there a timer in AC somewhere? I used a package many years ago that recorded how long I had each project open for which was great for recording how long I spent on a project. It even turned the timer off if the pr...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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CONVERTING A19 TO AUTOCAD 2016

I need to send drawings to a consultant who uses autocad 2016. I notice that a19 only has up to autocad 2013 in the file. Will they notice the difference. I sent documents once and they complained that they could not read them. I have to get this res...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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After DWG-publish it adds a 2 to the name

Hi, I'm having a problem I can't get rid of. I'm trying to publish my model to DWG, but it keeps adding a _2 to the end of the dwg-filename. I know it's supposed to do that if there already are or if it's making a duplicate of the model, at the folde...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Missing template when exporting to Revit

Hi! Im trying to export my project from Archicad 18 (edu) to Revit 2016. My construction engineer works in Revit so thats why I want to perform the operation. After some searching on the forum I tried the following: 1. Saved my archicad model as .ifc...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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