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Cut Fills in Section

Afternoon folks, I seem to be having major case of memory loss today! I cannot for the life of me remember how to show my cut fills on composite walls whilst in section. I want to show the same linetypes and fill as in my plan view. See attached scre...

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Text are cover by Fills

I am doing a wall section and adding a drafting fill for a CMU wall it covered up my text notes. I've seen this before and was able to change the fill setting to correct it but I don't seem to be able to change the setting to correct this.

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dimmensions approximation

Hi. Does anyone knows how to approximate dimensions to 0,5 (4,73 to 4,5). There is an option that alows to do that but by adding an upper index to dimension. I wish to have the rounding to 0,5 after comma (it's not common in Poland that dimensions ar...

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Labeling Windows in hotlinked module

Can you advise if there is anyway to override the ID of windows/doors/objects that are a part of a module? I am documenting a townhouse development that has one house repeated 3 times. The repeated houses are modules. I am wanting to label each windo...

lost Autotext links for references within detail notes

We have been using autotext for references to details for a long time in our construction docs. We just had a file loose all its links to the reference details, thus leaving a note for example showing "EIFS PROFILE 3, SEE #DrgID(ref)/#LayID(ref)". Th...

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repost: links in Publisher generated PDFs

Hello, in AC19, in PDFs created by Publisher, it possible to produce active links? I am unable to figure out how to produce links in interactive schedules, and even if I include URLs in a Note field, the text is not active as a link in the generated ...

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Convert Module to Autocad Blocks

Hi All, Is it possible to convert module to Autocad Blocks when saving as dwg file? In DXF/DWG Translator i can only find in Save Options to convert objects and complex element to blocks Thanks

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Publisher-File name

I re-created a shortcut to the publisher set and now I am not having the same title file name in my folder. My pdf file is named as Layout to PDF instead of the project name and date shown on the navigator. Can someone help me on this...please? Here ...

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External File and Worksheet

I want to bring in my external file [pdf] that is original paper size 11 x 17 into the workhseet. But why that the paper size becomes 22 x 34 when it is placed on the worksheet. What do I have to do to make sure to have the same paper size on the wor...

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Wall Hatch Showing inside Door / Window opening

Please help, I must have changed something unknowingly. All of a sudden all wall and door openings are showing brickwork instead of blank. What setting do I use to correct this. Please Help. Example:

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