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dimensioning

Hello. I am currently drawing in meters. I have set everything to units and dimensions to be in meters. Still, in the dimension marker of any door with the width of less than 1 m is in cm. How can I change this? Thank you.

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Can't Printing from Archicad

when I click on the print button in Archicad 15 or 16, something Error window appear with text : No printer has been selected. Please use the Settings/Printers command from the start menu to add or select a printer. The printer is installed correctly...

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Interior elevation detail

can anybody help me with interior elevation detail? I am designing a bathroom and want to show tiles detail on wall. Also I am not able to show floor tile detail on any views. It shows only on plan view.

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Autotext in drawing titles

We want to be able to combine the with the to become the Drawing Number, so when the drawings are published as a PDF the project Number is automatically included in the PDF's filename, and save us having to manually insert it each time. Is there a ...

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AC17 - weird new interior elevation naming behaviour

When placing interior elevations I use the single geometry method to place individual elevations not grouped. I give each a name like 'K 1', 'K 2' etc so each elevation has a different name and then use some autotext on the elevation to pick up the d...

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LEVEL DIMENSION QUESTION

Set site mesh Home Story at 690 from Sea Level (Sloping site from 690' to about 737') Set Project location at 704' altitude. Site home story set at 0' Select gravitate to mesh. Select level dimension and click on mesh. It shows elevation value from 0...

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detail tool and renovation status

How do I make my detail view set maintain the renovation status? It keeps defaulting to existing status and I need it to be in planned status. The way I'm working around that right now is creating a new viewset but then I can't update the detail to t...

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Question about Paramters, ID text and custom texts?

Hello, I'm new around here, and all new to Archicad. I have tried to search for what I'm looking for but it's not that easy when you don't talk the talk so to speak, so I apologize for just asking and not using search. My company are in the moves of ...

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Pen thickness on layout.

Hi everyone, I have a problem with lines on layout. My main floor plan is 1:50, but I have it in 1:200 on the layout. Density of dashed lines etc. is the same as on main plan, but lines are simply too thick. Like it didn't scale their thickness only....

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