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Can not choose to publish 'Current layout'

Hello, I am having a peculiar problem. When I want to publish layouts to pdf I can not choose selected layouts in navigator. I have to publish whole sets. Please take a look at the attached picture. Any help is appreciated!

Anonymous by Not applicable
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label tool - circle w/line

can anyone tell me how to achieve this in AC18 Drawing from engineer sketches, and they use circles with numbers in them to indicate items on the list of various beams and TJI's Thought I had it all worked out, but when I said ok and placed it on the...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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PMK:s in views, renovation linetype bug?

In AC19, we sometimes place maps or other such linework drawings in the view. These have often been DWGs, but I now attempted PMKs. The PMKs are much faster and render more consistently, apart from linetypes(!). Particularly renovation linetypes, suc...

pejotu by Participant
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Problem with plotting / fills

Hello, Things I've got a problem with are fills. Underneath I've put a link to visualize what I'm talking about. There is a problem with copying marqueed content to sheet. First of all it takes too much of a drawing and second - and much more importa...

Publish - File item could not be published message

I have seen this message before in my last AC version and what I did was to close the finder and restart the computer. But this time ,this process doesn't seem to work. Any idea what might be happening?

Llian by Advocate
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What to do with multiple options

I need to do a couple of layout options. I started on saving them as modules. But just wondering if I could create a new view and give it a different layer combination. Any suggestions?

Llian by Advocate
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ELEVATION SETTINGS PROBLEM IN 20

JUST UPDATED MY 20 TO LATEST VERSION,4020 USA. THIS MAYBE SOMETHING I'VE FORGOTTEN,BUT I'M HAVING TROUBLE GETTING A LINE TO SHOW BETWEEN MARKER HEADS IN ELEVATIONS....ANY IDEAS?

MrC by Enthusiast
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Spot slope tool

Is there any way in Archicad to detect slope angles of 3d-elements? For example if I have a 3D mesh of the site and I need to define levels of the water drains according to minimum slope angles. It would be convenient to just draw arrows in plan to c...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Project file size & placed views/layouts

I just noticed that every view that is placed to layout is "saved to project" in default. How much this affect to the file size of project files? I have been struggling with huge file sizes in my projects (over 1 Gb). There is a hundreds of layouts i...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Visible demolished doors and windows

Hi, I guess this is quite a trivial question because I have a feeling that I've already dealt with it once but can't remember how, so need to ask you guys: doors and windows that I set up as demolished still show up on the plan, even though I set dem...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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