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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clean lines into photoshop

need some help guys! I'm taking drawings from archicad into photoshop so i can render them, I've placed the plan onto a layout sheet saved it as pdf with the hairline box ticked under document options. then I'm opening it in photoshop the anti -alias...

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Archicad 17 to PDF to Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6 can't open certain Archicad 17 elements for example gravel fill. As soon as I try to open PDF with that fill in Photoshop the program crashes. It can't be because of the size, because it's 72 kB. Attachment: A4 1:20 detail of foundation...

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Zone Schedules - 2 Story Zones

Greetings, We are working with the automated schedules in AC17 to produce a zone schedule. We have a series of Mew style town homes which have 3 levels to them. We are trying to show total unit count and total unit square footage in our reporting. Ho...

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Fake Schedule

I am trying to edit the numbers in a schedule created in Archicad. Is there a way to manually enter the numbers and names? The exterior walls to my building are made of glass. THe glass wall, in reality, will be made up of glass panels (windows). I h...

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Scales in Drawing list

On several sheets in my set I have a drawing at scale 1:200 and a room schedule (which I suppose is at 1:1). When I make a drawing list on my cover sheet, in the scale column for these sheets, both 1:200 and 1:1 are listed as the scale for this sheet...

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Room Schedule issue

I am making a room schedule on some floor plans and just need to list Room #, Room name, and the area of the room. I have it set up, but for some reason the areas are displaying strangely. For example, if a room is 50 meters squared, rather than show...

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IFC translators

I am trying to save my pln file as a IFC file and it seems that all of my translator files are either missing or not accessible for some reason. The files are all there went I look for them under Finder on my Mac but when I go through ArchiCAD's IFC ...

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