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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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Problems editing stairs and rails

Upon modifying the stair rail my stairs exploded. please explain... please refer the attached image. how does one move the end post back 100mm and have the bottom rail move to the same location? When offsetting the rail to the outside of the stair si...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Library size - does it matter?

Forgive me if this is not the right section to post this question. Our office template has a Office ARCHICAD library that contains various manufacturer's library parts, surface images, etc. It's size is 1.5gigs, and lives on the BIMcloud. So every pr...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Mass information for schedule from IFC import

I have imported an IFC model containing steel structural beams & columns of a project into ArchiCAD. The model contains property information for the steel types i.e. 254 x 102 UB 22. The IFC information however does not contain any mass information. ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Export Image of Composite

Is there any way to export the image of a composite? I've many times used screenshots, but now the composite is so big that it goes outside my screen area. Is there some way to print it out in some way?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Section Marked Distant Area

I must be going crazy here, but can not for the life of me seem to access the section marker 'distant area' function any more. Placing a section marker with limited horizontal extent, the extents marker is adjustable, but there is no distant area lin...

EcoDesigner Star - zone calculation not converging

Hello! Until now my energy simulations has been running smooth on this project. Now after about 2-3h of simulation it fails with the error ID 139 "zone calculation do not converge". I have no clue what is causing this. Is there no detailed report on ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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ARCHICAD group within a group

I know ARCHICAD is capable of making groups within a group, but is there a way to "drill down" into a group whilst suspend grouping is off? E.g. I have three rectangles, A, B, and C. I make A & B into a group (Group 1). Then, i make Group 1 and C int...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Coordinates of Property Label 21

Hi all. I would like to set the center co-ordinate of Property Label 21 to the center of the text. At the moment its set at the bottom edge, which is where the extension line begins. I cant find the starting co-ordinate for the extension line. My sea...