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Using the Development Kit with Visual Studio 2022

Hi everyone, In the last couple of weeks we got several questions regarding Visual Studio 2022 and the API DevKit. If you try to use VS 2022 to build your AddOns, you have to keep in mind a few things. First, Archicad 25 and Archicad 26 is built with...

How To Get Wall Area (square meter=m2) from [Morph]

Please teach me thatHow To Get Wall Area (square meter=m2) from [Morph].Parameter or Property or Calcurate Method ?Element or Element_Memo ?

Where are the default light controls?

A long time ago I have scripted some simple lamp objects in which the basic light control are shown in the settings dialog box (attached image). The UI script of this object is blank; the controls show up by default, simply because it is classified a...

Param-o Bug with Global Variables. Self-explanatory.

Param-o Bug with Global Variables. Please see image attached. Happens on any installation we have (AC24, Mac OS 5004 or Windows 5000).

Resolved! Undefined symbol errors when building add-ons for Archicad 25

I'm trying to build add-ons for Archicad 25 using Xcode. It builds all the files fine, but then comes up with 4 errors related to the RS module. The same add-on builds fine for previous versions of Archicad.What am I doing wrong?(I've included the Mo...

Can I use multiple threads to read archicad data?

Hi! I am currently doing something similar to the ModelAccess_Test sample plugin. On very large files, it's quite slow.I know archicad probably isn't thread safe, but is it safe to use multiple threads to read elements, their attributes and content, ...

VS17 : Attached to Archicad.exe and debugging is not working - SOLVED

Hello! *Edit* I am using Archicad 24.I have a problem debugging an add-on. The add-on works in Archicad very well after I followed every step to setup the environment required to develop Addons.I attached Visual Studio 2017 to the Archciad.exe as it ...

Character encoding problem -> ARCHICAD export list in UTF-8 --> GDL DATA I/O read the list in ANSI

Dear friends of ARCHICAD and GDL,I have modded the "Pen and Colors" object (contained in the german/austrian libary) so the object can also display the pen description and the thickness of pens in a graphic table. As there is no way to get the descri...

2D View Issue

Hello,I just recently started figuring out the basics for GDL scripting. From what I've read, if there is no 2D script, then the 2D symbol is what should be displayed in the 2D view. For a recessed light fixture, I deleted the 2D script and drew the ...

Resolved! How to defined inline Pen definition using RGB values ?

Hi there everyone,I would like to know it was possible to define an inline Pen with out selecting the pen's number from the Pen set.ie: If the inline Pen definition could be defined by RGB values ....

NCS Indicator -- Revised

I am writing a Add-On to just place a NCS Indicator Label. Unfortunately the code will only place the default label and ignores anything else. I can't figure this out because, using the exact same code, -- just changinge the type ,index, guid etc. it...

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Using the Development Kit with Visual Studio 2022

How To Get Wall Area (square meter=m2) from [Morph]

Where are the default light controls?

Param-o Bug with Global Variables. Self-explanatory.

Resolved! Undefined symbol errors when building add-ons for Archicad 25

Can I use multiple threads to read archicad data?

VS17 : Attached to Archicad.exe and debugging is not working - SOLVED

Character encoding problem -> ARCHICAD export list in UTF-8 --> GDL DATA I/O read the list in ANSI

2D View Issue

Resolved! How to defined inline Pen definition using RGB values ?

NCS Indicator -- Revised

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