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RCP - Door/Window OH Outline

Why the door/window overhead contour line is not showing up in the 3D Document for RCP? It is showing up in my other RCP....

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Llian by Advocate
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AC 17 3D Document

Why would I want to create another RCP plan using 3D document when there is already RCP view map? I can see that this feature is great for extracting the different unit plans....is this all about it? Please help me to understand what's difference bet...

Llian by Advocate
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sections and elevations showing in plan view

so sometimes some of my projects, size not being a factor, get the sections or elevations embedded into plan view when i try to access a section or elevation. and from then on that section or elevation cannot be erased even if i delete the 3d model. ...

Fills in Layout

Here is my problem: I am using Layout to prepare a drawing for printing and I need to specify the colour coding for each fill. I have drawn rectangles on the layout as the caption and I thought I could change the colour of the rectangular fills by pi...

Paopao by Booster
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REFERENCE BUBBLE

I think I have seen it in REVIT but not sure in AC....I want to bubble a specific area on the view map with a reference bubble to a drawing sheet...where can I find that in AC?

Llian by Advocate
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Scale in view map and layout

My drawing of a building in view map is set to 1/4" scale. My elevations of the different bathroom types are drawn in the worksheet to scale 1/2". In my layout sheet, I bring in the individual bathroom plans from view map and change the scale to 1/2"...

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Llian by Advocate
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DRAWING PEN COLOR IN LAYOUT

The A2 plan drawing is a copy of A1. Both have the same setting [pen] but A2 is not showing the pen color as in A1 drawing - closet, bathrm fixtures, labels and text as in A1. What am I missing here?

Llian by Advocate
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Renovation Status default value

Please see screenshot..I was messing around with the Renovation setting and now I am seeing this in the Mesh tool setting - RENOVATION - use Palette to set default -what does this say? I have been having trouble getting my mesh showing up on my site ...

Llian by Advocate
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A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln file

I am struggling to import a master layout file from one pln file to another. The organiser top left box does not have the browse option therefore the common TW solution doesn't work. Is this a limitation of Solo or is there a workaround please?

sea level

Why I can't enter the elevation value for Sea Level - it's greyed out. I have set my project level to zero and the project leve is 312.0' above sea level...Help please.

Llian by Advocate
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