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About Archicad's documenting tools, views, model filtering, layouts, publishing, etc.

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Moving Interior Elevation Markers to a New Layer

I am working on a project the has all of the interior elevation markers shown on one particular layer. I would like to separate the standard interior elevation markers from the ones that I want on the enlarged plans. When I select any of the interior...

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transfer or copy/paste dimensions from one file to another

Is there a way to transfer or copy/paste the dimensions from ArchiCAD file to another? I am working in the same drawing file one is dated differently than the other but it is the same building. Is there a way to transfer or copy/ paste the dimensions...

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elevation color

Hello, I am a beginner student archicad user. I have got a problem with color of elevations. I change walls material color to white but they would appear grey (I used several white materials - all act the same). When rendered in lightworks walls are ...

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Breaking up a Large Project

So I'm trying to figure out the best way to break apart a large team work file and here are some of the issues that I dealing with. This is all based on the fact that this project is approaching 900mb as a teamwork file (this worries me). 1st Method:...

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HELP my printed PDF documents are SLIMMED

Hi guys. I have imported a high res JPG map onto a work page. Put some hatching and text over it and then created a new window on my Layout. It looks really good and clean on the screen. But when i print this as PDF, it comes out perfect but the top ...

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GIANT Text editor

All of a sudden my text editor is filling up the whole screen, but only on text that is on a layout sheet. Can only see part of the text because the scale is so big. All I can do is hit escape.....and can only see part of the editor box. Never had th...

Layout Print > PDF Upside Down

An unusual occurence has been that my Site Plan View when inserted and printed to PDF turns upside down in the PDF. Only 1 sheet of 8 is wrong, the others are all OK. Having read the posts I changed from Bulzip back to the internal publisher and the ...

maxdunn by • Participant
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Dimensioning accuracy not carrying to Layout Book

I have set my dimensioning accuracy to 1/16", but the ArchiCad system frequently reverts to the previous setting (1/8") when I switch Views. When the setting holds, dimensions show to the 1/16th in my Views, but not in the Layout Book. I have set a S...

Showing more levels than stories in elevations?

Is there some way I could add more lines with height to an elevation view? Currently I see only story height, but I also need ceiling, floor, window height. Ideally I would like to know how can I do levels like in this picture, but I don't know how t...

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collated printing

Hi! Probably this issue was disscussed here, but once again when I want to print more than one layout and have more than one copy of each layout archicad doesn't collate copies, but it prints all copies of first page, than second etc. I do this in th...

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