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Place Drawing frame Defaults

hi there, When i place a drawing into my layout book, it always comes out so that the drawing frame is set to 'manually resized frame', instead of fit frame to drawing. Even when i pre-select all the correct settings. quite annoying. How can i change...

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How to save selected part to view in layout

i had opened a autocad dwg file in my Archicad 12 i want to select a part of the map to view in the layout of archicad,how to make it? i had tried to use marquee to select the part i want but it can't. i also try to use "save view in layout" but didn...

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Phased permit sets

Is there a Graphisoft recommendation for how to manage a phased model? The first phase is "foundation only" and the second phase is "shell". The revision drawings for the first phase will be occurring while the second phase design development drawing...

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missing "merge to one DWG file"

hello everybody, i have a problem with publishing archicad plan into dwg file; here you can see the a screenshot of archicad 13 tutorial and below that is my archicad 13 64 bit screenshot.in tutorial it says you can merge into one dwg file but in my ...

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PDF's take ages to load in preview

Hi all, I'm pretty new to ArchiCAD and need a bit of advice regarding publishing PDFs. I'm using an ArchiCAD file at work and publish a set of drawings as PDFs. When I open up the PDFs in preview it takes ages to load (you can actually see the file b...

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Automatic Date

When setting up a master sheet, is there anyway of creating an autotext object that is linked to the date on the actual computer system. Currently I assign autotext that is linked back to the project info DATE, however I need to be mindful of changin...

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Publisher Sets are GONE

I just noticed that all of the Publishing Sets in my Template are gone and have been replaced with 2 sets that I've never seen before. The directory where the Template resides is write-protected, so how could this have happened? Because they cannot b...