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Same view on different layouts, different layer combination

I have the same view on different layouts (they need to be all the same): I have copied and pasted the same layout so I retain the exact position of the plan in different visualisations. Each view needs to be visualised according to different layer c...

Paopao by Booster
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Window Labels - all windows have same ID

Probably a beginner error I created some window favorites, but now that I have placed several of them they all have the same window ID even though they're different sizes. Is there a way to re-sequence my window and door IDs? What should I have done ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Zone area without finishing

Hi we are using walls with plater in model (for labeling). However in documentation for contractor we need to calulate area of each room without plaster. Is there by any chance possbilitiy to substract plaster area in plan from zone area calulation ?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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About Zones in AC 19 and their scale sensivity

We're are in the process of migrating from ArchiCad16 to 19. In AC16 our Zone stamps displayed different information and had different text heights for each imperial scale eg. - at 3/16 only Zone name was visible in font size 1.8 mm - at 1/8 scale sa...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Linked Markers losing their links

I have been working on a project which for various and sundry reasons had to be broken into two files and then had to be published in two parts which did not correspond to how the files were separated. Layouts were composed in both files and then req...

printing a pdf with different page orientation

So, here is the issue, that I did not even know was something I had to worry about until yesterday: in my typical pdf with plans and sections and so on, I often have a mixture of landscape and portrait orientation of the pages. I did not realize that...

Kamelite by Enthusiast
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Documentation standards in the Philippines

Hi All, This is perhaps a little outside the scope of an archicad forum, but I'm hoping there's some Archicad users out there from the Philippines that can help me out here. I'm doing some documentation in the Philippines for a commercial fitout and ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Restore 3D view of 3D Document

I have moved some things and now a 3D Document does not show all of what I need to see. How can I regenerate the specific 3D View that was used to make the 3D Document? I apparently did not save that 3D view, or I have deleted it. The reason I want t...

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Repeating elements

Hi all, I am quite new to ArchiCAD using it for the first time for a student project. So far the one thing I can't work out is how to work on a repeated part of a drawing. Let's say I have a typical apartment layout that is repeated in several parts ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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