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Not able to edit text or text lables

Hi! All of a sudden I can´t edit text or text labels. I can activate the text or label but I can not move the marker or delete signs. I can write new signs do. I guess I have unintentionally made a command to cause this but I do not now what! Any sug...

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Reflected Ceiling Plan

Hi: I´m using 3d documents to create Reflected Ceiling Plans but illumination or smoke detectors (eventhough set us Reflected Ceiling in symbol) won´t show each lamp as set. It shows de circle...but not the info. I attach a side by side comparison be...

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Merging Fills with Fill Consolodation

Hi, I have merged a lot of fills with the Fill Consolidation option. I checked Trim Overlapping Fills & Merge Fills regardless of shape. Most of the fills merged however there are still some that won't merge together. Any ideas on why this might be t...

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KIP 7170 printing issues

We got a KIP 7170 about 6 weeks ago and have had constant issues trying to print a full set of drawings from a PDF. Has anyone else had issues with a similar KIP printer? As I understand they all use the 'System-K' software. We always make a PDF and ...

Layout Failing to Publish

Hi, I have a layout that keeps failing to publish, every other layout in the set publishes but this one keeps saying Fail. I have deleted the Views and put them in the Layout again but it still says Fail. When i click on why it says it might be in us...

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Get 2d drawing (worksheet) from 3d view

Hello Everyone, this is probably a very basic question... I want to stand in 3d view and capture the view (or parts of it) as a 2d line drawing to place on a worksheet... I know how to do it from plan and elevations. There I just mark the objects I w...

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Text horizontal aligned with view layout

I have a layout with a rotated viewport, now I would like to have all the text aligned with the layout horizontal, so it is easy to read. How can I do that? It is not possible to rotate the drawing by itself because of other apartments on the drawing...

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Blips on elevations

Does anyone know how to turn off the blips (little x's) that are showing up on my elevations.

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