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Greetings Everybody, Visualization and the visual language as a whole is a crucial phenomena when we communicate our ideas to the clients. Should that be vectorial, artistic, non-realistic, photo-realistic, 2D or 3D from classic quick shaded represen...

Hotlink AC10

I have A.pln and B.pln. "B" are hotlinked stories of "A". Now I'm trying to insert a "B" view into "A" Layout and looks like is making the process but it never ends. Here's what I'm doing: I model one building which is going to be repetitive in the p...

RAY TRACING AND HOW TO MIRROR IS COPIED FROM PERSON AND SHIN

"Ray tracing" is how the LightWorks rendering engine in ArchiCAD solves the lighting in a scene. To learn more, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing "Mirror" is a material that reflects light rays. There is pure reflective mirror in the Arch...

Marquee vs. sun

In AC10 the 3d multi-story marquee is obscuring the sun when I do a photorendering using lightworks. I don't remember this behavior in AC9. Can anyone confirm? Thanks,

Link all files except maybe 10 to different Archicad file

We are working on a project in V9 and I saved our plp file to a pln file and now I need to relink all files in plotmaker back to the pln file instead of the plp file. When I highlight all the files I want to change ( I also tried only story files) th...

'fuzzy materials'

In the following rendering some of the materials, especially the furniture appears very unreal and 'fuzzy'. What's wrong with it? I read an earlier topic, in which someone commented on the need for higher light resolutions. However, I'm pretty sure t...

Dimension core of composite walls does not work

Hello, I have been using archicad for about 3 years now. Several months ago I switched to ver 9 and now I'm using ver 10. I always use composite walls. For instance a composite consisting of 1/2" gyp. bd. ea side and a 3 1/2" wood stud. For some reas...

Plotter Preferences

I set up a template file in AC10 to use in our office. I created several custom sheet sizes in 'Plot Set-up" to meet the needs of our firm. I cannot figure out how to get these custom sheets and other plotter preferences onto everyone computer in our...

PLT file displays as hairlines

I have created a PLT file from an AC10 layout using settings that (apparently) worked for PM9. I have the "Hairlines" checkbox UNchecked, and yet when I import the PLT file into an empty layout to check it the lines are all hairline. Does anybody hav...

Transparancy in Isometry

Why is the transparancy impossible in isometry? As you see the surface of glass is opak...

How to save proper DWG file?

Since I remember every new version of ArchiCAD was promised to be more flexible in exchanging data with AutoCAD, and even with all my practice and obstinacy I still cannot produce 100% satisfactory (accurate) DWG drawing. What I need is: - flattened,...

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Visualization & visual language - Conversation & feedback

Hotlink AC10

RAY TRACING AND HOW TO MIRROR IS COPIED FROM PERSON AND SHIN

Marquee vs. sun

Link all files except maybe 10 to different Archicad file

'fuzzy materials'

Dimension core of composite walls does not work

Plotter Preferences

PLT file displays as hairlines

Transparancy in Isometry

How to save proper DWG file?

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