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Reflected ceiling plan of sloping soffit

Hi I'd appreciate some help on how to created a reflected ceiling plan of a sloping soffit. I've not done any RCP's in Archicad yet and what I would also like to generate are plans of the sloping soffit looking square on in order to create cutting la...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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2D Fills in 3D documents

Hi: Is there any way to see 2d fills in 3d documents? I draw them but all of them are empty. It this an override I'm missing?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Wall surfaces : what's the best way to do a location plan

Hi everyone, I need to do schematic plans to illustrate the wall finish of a big project. Theses plans will be accompanied by a wall surface schedule. GO are very powerful for a lot of similar situations but not this particular case as you cannot mod...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Slanting wall profile

I am preparing a 3D drawing for a house with a slanting wall profile to side elevations. Side walls extend 1000 mm past glazed front elevation and the front edges of the extension slope @ at 76.7 degrees, instead of the usual vertical edges. What is ...

KeesW by Advocate
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Dimension walls in plan to core or with finishes turned off

I've just discovered something that others might want to check. I am dimensioning to the core because this is required for my documentation. I have a composite wall comprising 90 mm stud with 10 mm plasterboard both sides. I noticed 10 mm errors in s...

KeesW by Advocate
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Text - to Caps or not to Caps & general functionality

Despite finding a wish dating from around 2004 there seems to have been little to no movement to increase our text edit functionality. While I totally get ArchiCAD isn't a word processing program we find the text is incredibly clunky to use when tryi...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Project Info Categories

Does anyone know if there is a way to change the default categories in the 'Project Info' window?

Resolved! Comma in Dimension?

How do I get rid of the comma in the DIMENSION? All my DIMENSION suddenly have a comma. I don't know what happened.

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Resolved! door fill

which option in the "model view option" do I check or uncheck to turn off the fill for the door? please see attached image.

dhnguyen by Contributor
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