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negative story level marker in elevations

Hi, I'm wondering how I can keep my section/elevation boundary and at the same time offset the marker in section/elevation with a negative value so that the markers are displayed closer towards the center of the drawing. It seems that you can only as...

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Different Layout Sets

I think I'm missing something super basic here... but I can't seem to find a solution. I plan to keep two different set of plans: Permit Set and Construction Set. But the problem is, I only have one set of layout, and I can't seem to create a new one...

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Elements don't appear in elevation but appear in other views

I have noticed that a baseboard element (complex profile) shows up in plans and 3D views, but not on the interior elevations. Per the image, the baseboard cuts normally in section, but is not present on the elevation beyond. Same layer, same renovati...

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? Decimal rounding the Area Text of a Fill ?

The units I work in are mm. In a covering FILL patch, a building's area might display as 103,781,462 mm2. Which is a bit ridiculous. Preferably, it would display as 103.8 m2. Is there any way of doing this... like using something like a =ROUND(/10000...

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plan north vs. project north

I would like to document my project using plan north instead of project north to save paper among other things. If I rotate the view in layout the text is slanted. Should I change the project north to suit my layout? And if so how do I do that?

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Newbie problem with Interior Elevations

I am relatively new to ArchiCAD (I used it back at version 9, but not since). I am working through the guided exercises and the trial version of ArchiCAD17, and have noticed some strange behaviors, most of which don't seem to be flagged at the develo...

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UCS and Layouting Frustration

This is getting RIDICULOUS... I am using the UCS with some plans in one rotation and others in a different... I can place a VIEW of the plan on a layout... all looks good.... Can select the View and OPEN SOURCE all looks good... Close the file and op...

cannot stretch list to multiple layouts

I'm trying to stretch a list to span to multiple layouts, as I have done in the same file a lot of times, but it doesn't work. When I click on the icon and stretch the window, AC instead of creating more pages and spreading the list, it creates a lon...

How to set Drawing Units

I am really close to finishing this project. For some reason this morning my new dimensions and fill text are all coming in as inches only as opposed to feet and inches. My working units are set to "feet and fractional inches". I cannot find anything...

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Modelling Accuracy

Hi! Is there any way to set a constraint so that Archicad only draws/models in increments of 5mm? Realistically speaking, you'd never measure to the millimetre in construction and having things working out at the odd 1 or 2mm on drawings is pretty em...

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