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Component Level Design Workflows - Conversation & feedback

Hi All, Now in Archicad, most design and data are handled at the element level - assigning properties, using Graphic Overrides or setting renovation status are a few examples.To express design intent and extract data at a more detailed level, the com...

James B by Graphisoft
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How to edit objects within BIM Server Library?

Is there a clear protocol for editing the code of an object within a BIM Server Library? I have made some changes to an object within office library (custom objects, shared among all projects), and for the life of me I can't figure out how the change...

Orientation of a building

Hi, What's the best way to think about the orientation of the building? Shall I turn it exactly as it is in real or shall I rotate the terrain? What's the best according to drawings and sun study?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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How much users are there of ArchiCAD?

I'm sorry if this is not the right place to post my question. I do not find any email-adress to Sales-department that I think would be the right address for my question. I want to start a business. In that connection I need to know how many Interior-...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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window in a sloped wall

Hi Guys, I'm still using AC10 and am having trouble with using windows in a sloped wall. The windows remain upright and project up out of the wall as it slopes. I did a workaround for a presentation with SEOed walls of glass in the sloped wall but fo...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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How to Hide items?

I am doing a project and I have walls surrounding all of my columns, and for some reason it wont let me use the line that is extruded out from the wall to select certain columns. It just places an "x" lilke Im clicking nothing. So if someone knows wh...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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A Newbie Needs an Introduction to ArchiCAD

Hello everybody, I am a newbie to ArchiCAD, and I am studying Architecture. I have downloaded ArchiCAD Collaboration part1 and ArchiCAD Essential from Graphisoft a month ago, and so have I been watching them. However, I have found that those videos a...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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walls

What is the better practice? walls that break at floors or walls that run footer to roof?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Missing Lamp libraries

When i open my archicad 14 and start a new blank document my linked lamp libraries are all there to access, however when i open the project that i am working on at the moment (which has been made on a different computer), when i go to my lamp linked ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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