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Show wall cavities in renovation filter

Hi, I have been toying around with the graphic overrides in the renovation filters trying to find a workaround to a problem I have been having, to no avail. What I am after is on composite walls i.e brickwork/wall cavity/timber frame is that when the...

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Interior Elevation Auto Scale Problem

Hey all, I have an Interior Elevation tag created in the office template and it automatically puts all interior elevation views at 3/8"=1'-0". Is there anyway to get it to be 1/2"-1'-0" automatically when I create the Interior Elevation tag. If I can...

Fills on Objects

ARCHICAD 21 Hello - apologies if this is a silly question, I am new to Archicad and still learning. I'm trying to get coloured fills shown on objects in all 2D views (plans, elevations and sections). For example, pink for cabinetry like wardrobes, bl...

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Printing too light

All - When I publish a group of layouts and print (without hairline and black and white), printer outputs very light lines. Not readable. When I print directly from layout book there is no problem. Any ideas? Thx

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Fill area - accuracy

Hello everyone: So i use fills sometimes to calculate areas. The problem im having is that i want it to calculate areas with 2 decimals accuracy, not 3 or more, it seems the program sometimes its rounding the digits to close values. example: 2 x 2.23...

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Different elements, same texture. How to align?

I have different elements, a roof, and some profiles on the edges. The top par of all uses the same texture but it doesn't align on elevations (fill) or 3d (surface). Is there a global setting for this?

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ROTATE DETAIL BUBBLE

How do I rotate the detail bubble to a specific element? Here is an example where I want to bubble the kitchen cabinet at the same angle as the kitchen cabinet layout.

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Resolved! Chamfered Arch

I did this before with a morph and then extrusion. This time it's pretty early in the design phase so whatever I draw will need to change dimension a few times probably. That was a pain with the morph. I just started with morphs so maybe I just need ...

Zone <toAltvalue>

Hi all, Is there a way to get a zone to display it's elevation to sea level without resorting to labels? The custom text setting does not appear to recognise autotext prompts... Ling.