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Problems publishing PDFs

Our office has 6 workstations running Archicad 18, linked on a network. Only one of our workstations has this problem. When publishing a layout to a PDF, only the first attempt succeeds. If an amendment is made, and the layout republished with the sa...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Issue ID/Revision ID discrepancy

When creating a new Issue, no matter what value I choose as the Issue ID, this is never reflected in Revision ID, but instead the default 01 value is assigned. I then have to manually change the the Revision ID manually for each and every single Layo...

Window Marker (ID Label) rotating in Section view

I decided to shoe the ID Label for the Windows when they are viewed in Section. This worked properly for a Section that was cut facing up to plan north, but for sections cut facing to left (plan West) or to the right (plan east) the marker is rotated...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Generic Label 18

The arrow function does not work. Also, will it ever be possible to schedule independent labels? This would make simple keyed notes very, very easy.

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Autotext Display View On/Off

This has driven me nuts for years.... is there any way to view the Autotext field name/id rather than its content?!? A simple view display option that i'm missing? For example I'd like to see what content on my (old) layouts is simply text (edited di...

Creating Standard fills

I am wondering if anyone can help me. I am really not GREAT with Archicad but I know the Basics. I am working as a draughter at a paving company.What I am looking to to is create standard material fills of our paving products that I can pass on to th...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Shadows not saving in ViewMap

Gurus I am needing to save sun diagrams on elevations for my client. I've discovered that I can't save them as separate views. I create one view of shadows @ 10am 21 June and that is ok. I save this as a new view. When I create shadows for 12noon 21J...

KeesW by Advocate
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Creating a layout as a fillable form?

Is this possible in AC? What I want to achieve is to be able to Place a section of a drawing on a layout, and then have the possibillity to add comments, remarks, or whatever needed, on that layout? In other Words, the master layout needs to be creat...

Kamelite by Enthusiast
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