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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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MASS command

Hello, I am working with the MASS command and the manual says the "s" (status of edges) is "similar to the Prism_ statement". Similar but not identical in my experience. I have found that if you use the status value of -1 (an illegal value for the PR...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Building Rotation (In Plan), & Combining Drawing Files

Couple of questions here... First, how do I rotate (in plan) all stories of my project at the same time? Im guessing there must be a command to select all stories, I just dont know what it is. Secondly, how can I bring a building from one file and pl...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Module - Sections and Autorebuild.

I am creating a project with many small houses, so i decided to create each one in a seperate module. I created the plans, and then sections and elevations. I then make sections pure drawing to edid them as i please. Save the project exit. When i ope...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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How to create a Non-printable layer

Hi, I have made a search but could not find any topic fort his: How do I create a non-printable layer? Up to now I have been hiding layers that I do not want to print. Any help would be much appreciated.

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Measuring slab Perimeter

Did a search and surprisingly nothing though I thought this was covered before. But anyway, does anybody know if it's possible to measure a slab perimeter (or a couple of walls for that matter)? I tried the zone tool hoping (remembering something), b...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Text Justification

I'm trying to have some multi-lined text be able to be justified (within the block - if that makes any sense), and I can't find the setting. If I use the anchor option from DEFINE STYLE name font_family, size, anchor, face_code I just get the... anch...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Images and Ghost Stories

I would like to place a scanned sketch on a "layout" story in order to draft over it. I have place the image as a figure, but the image/figure only shows as a placeholder on other stories. ...any help? Thanks

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Editing .jpg textures - causes corruption in objects

I have tried editing the supplied .jpg files for textures to modify their colors in two different image editing programs. When assigning the texture in the Attribute Materials Manager, all my Objects Online objects in the drawing get really corrupted...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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vertical wood siding

Hello, I can not seem to figure out how to create a vertical wood siding wall element. I have plenty of horizontal, but no vertical? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Peter