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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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Panther Issues

I can not use a keyboard shortcut to Drag a Copy. It works fine from the menu, but not Option, Apple+D. I can change it to Option, Apple,+Q for instance but not the default. Anyone else experiencing this in AC7.0r3. OS 10.3 G-4

Anonymous by Not applicable
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XREF Management function is killin' me!

What is the go with the new XREF Management function??! I hadn't had the need to play with it much in 8 or 8.1, but it seems vastly different than in 7. And for the worse. These may be new features (and if so please enlighten me), but they seem more ...

Link by Expert
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Create new windows

Hi, I'm still not familiar with creating library parts, doors, windows, etc. in AC 8. I've drawn my new door lying down with slabs, and now I'm looking at it in my 3D window from a parallel side view at 90 degrees... How do I save that as my door? Is...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Artlantis billboards

Karl, I think you'll have to buy a Mac after all. I found this http://perso.wanadoo.fr/billbobuilder/ program to build masked and cropped billboards for Artlantis 4.5.. The hitch is it's Mac-only! I also found this link to free billboards, trees etc:...

plotmaker and archicad

I'm importing views from archicad into Plotmaker 3. Whenever I update my drawings, another archicad is opened and stays open. I don't see it on my screen but I see it through task masager. It seems to really bog down my system until I end archicad fr...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Poor Djordje

Poor Djordje, we must keep you very busy moving the posts to their correct location in the subcategories of this forum, even creating new threads when a post derives from the original topic. I bet you wanted that as a hole in the head Give us time an...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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extrude along a curve?

I was wondering if it is possible to extrude different profiles, user defined along curves and lines? I am a Maya user, and I am fairly new to Archicad. I am looking to draw curves, then extrude say rectangles or circles along this curve. similar to ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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I want to do a VR scene

I wanted to make a Vr Scene but with cameras that don't show 360 views. Is that possible? I want one camera only to show 90 degree view and another camera 180 degree view. I want the viewer to decide where he wants to look within our given view angle...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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How to manage intersection priorities

Also, here's a tip. There is an add-on in the Goodies folder called "Intersections in Combos". If you run this add-on it will make all hidden layers have an intersection priority of two and all visible layers have 1. The cool thing is that this appli...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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