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Resolved! How to represent an empty space

Hi, I'm trying to draw a plan with a two stories, double height, living room. I do so with a hole in my slab. The problem is that when I go to the layout view and import my plan, that hole appears as an empty, white square in my second floor. I would...

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Resolved! 3D Document dimensions

I have an Axonometric view of a component isolated in a 3D document. I can't dimension the length of an inclined edge. Is this a known limitation of 3D documents or am I missing a trick?

Elevation and Section Markers Unlinking when saving as DWG

Hello, One of my users is having issues exporting DWGs. Using the any of the translators (For as is output and DWG for Dummies specifically) the section and elevation markers are not keeping their reference to their view. instead of reading 1 / A2.01...

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Interior Elevations Overlapping with Multiple Zones

Hello (I'd like to post this again as my initial post was bo-garded by another question, and it went unanswered), I'd like to understand the logic behind the linked naming of interior elevations based upon the zones they are placed in. I'm running in...

Copy this View in Archicad

Hi All, I have to duplicate this view from Revit in Archicad. Make it exactly the same in Archicad. What would you call the effect in Archicad? Could someone please give me a clue on where to start in settings to Duplicate that effect. cheers

Resolved! Interior Elevation Issue and/or Bug

My typical procedure for interior elevations is setting up my views and placing them on the layout. After that, I go back and add my callouts/notes to each view. Once I try to refresh the view on the layout page the view it deleted and unlinked, and ...

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2d objects in Element List other than plans

I have been putting key notes in ArchiCAD plans using a 2D library part. I discovered that I can list these keynotes in my element list and so I created keynote schedules using the ID and of the note and an associated text. I then include the list (w...

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