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Hide text Area Fill in some views

Is there a way to hide/turn on and off area fills for certain views? We have a project with a large number of area fills and it would be good to be able to export a clean plan without the areas. I know that we could use zone stamps, but I am interest...

Label / Marker Settings

Hello to All! is there a possibility to adopt the structure Label 18 that I can have the "Custom Head Content" shown in two lines instead of one?

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Printing Errors from PDF - ArchiCAD 20

Text is collapsing on itself when printing PDFs with Acrobat. (see attached). On screen it looks fine. If printed with Preview on a Mac it's fine. Same thing was happening with ArchiCAD 18.

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Unlinking Elevation Views / Elevation Line Weights

I have 6 separate elevation views I'm working on (actually only 3 elevations, but each elevation needs both an existing and a proposed version), and I need to have the line weights set up differently for each elevation. I was initially changing the l...

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Interior Elevation showing on all floors

Hello, everyone I'm having a problem here with my interior elevations marker. I can make the common markers show in one floor only or all, but it does not work with the individual markers, is grey out the option to change this, and is not locked or a...

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Labelling in hotlinked files

I am using hotlinked modules for a townhouse development I am documenting. I have labelled certain items in the .mod file and then placed the modules in my working file, in some cases the module in the working file is mirrored. In the mirrored module...

Section line lentgh

One more question if I may... Is it possible to have the section lines showing in different lengths in different floor plans? I have a house with an extension in the ground floor, therefore the section line needs to be long, but above the ground floo...

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Schedules don't drag between layouts

For some reason, I can't get schedules (e.g. door or window schedule) to drag between layouts. They seem stuck. I can drag regular views, no problem. And what's weird is that SOMETIMES I can drag schedules, but not usually. This seems to be true in A...

Custom Window tag

Hi Everyone, I have been trying to workout in Archicad how to create custom window tag that automatically picks up the type of window, height and width in the following fashion, ASW-0606. In Australia this is the conventional method to name the windo...

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