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Building Material MISSING + frameless corner window

Anonymous
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Hello,
I am using an ArchiCAD 18 and I don't have a Building Material dialog box in Options > Element Attributes >. It only exist in Options > Element Attributes > Attribute Manager. I can not really work properly without it, is there an option to get it, maybe somewhere in work preferences? It is killing me. (

Also I can not create a window corner without a frame - was this option not jet available in ArchiCAD 18?

Thank you in advance,
Sasa
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Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
For the corner window please check that the window you are using is "Fixed" any other type needs a frame to be able to open.
The other question I cannot answer since I don't have AC18 installed.
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Barry Kelly
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For the building materials dialogue it sounds like you have a custom work environment and this was removed from the menu.
Either load a 'Standard' work environment or edit your custom one and add that command back into the menu structure.

Barry.
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Turn on the "Attributes" toolbar and you'll have a quick shortcut to get there.

Windows> Toolbars> Attributes
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Erwin Edel
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Frameless "glass" corner connection doesn't work with all windows, as far as I recall.

There should be a repeating (ribbon?) horizontal window in the ArchiCAD library that allows for the setting. Maybe some others too. Could just be the Dutch localisation that has it locked/unavailable for others.
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