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Layout book locked at 72dpi...

Hi All, When I save a 3D view onto a layout, the resolution is locked at 72dpi. On the layout when I bring up the "Drawing Selection Settings" under properties I can change the dpi but it is locked with the magnification. If I up the resolution the m...

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Modified status in Drawing Manager

This has probably been discussed, but I could only find older version references. Without fail, I open any .pln that I saved earlier and the Drawing Manager shows drawings that need to be checked even though I've done nothing but open the file. The d...

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Length Label updating intermittantly.

I've just been playing around with automatic labelling. It is not something I've really looked at before so I may have missed something! I'm also using AC11 with the latest patch. I've labelled a beam created using the beam tool, with the beam label ...

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Help me plot

Hello, Still green with AC9,But I have managed to do a plan now need to plot it on plotmaker9,Kindly guide me on how to plot then print. Thank you for your co-operation and time. Requests Orina

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Changing source view marker tag's reference

I'm going to try to explain this as best I can; I apologize if i'm not making sense. I have an interior elevation marker that referenced the sheet it was placed on. We had to issue a separate sheet on 11x17 of just that view, therefore, we used the s...

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Scaling an image, saving it, importing to photoshop

Hi there, I have had a problem with this for ages, so I'am hoping someone can tell me how to do this =] I have an image that i just import into ArchiCAD, but I just can't get it to the correct scale. I'am trying to get just an ordinary image (I have ...

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Live Marker Trouble

My question is at the end of the description.. 1. I open a sheet - for example, A5.00, where I lay out enlarged stair plans. The enlarged stair plans are Views dragged onto the sheet from the View Map.These update automatically on my A5.00 sheet. 2. ...

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Survey and Site Plan

How do I model an imperial unit dimensioned house, with a metric geodetic site survey on the same site plan? To illustrate, I begin my Main Floor at 100'-00" Our surveys geodetic points are, in this instance around 47.00 m In my opinion this an essen...

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electrical plans questions

is there a simple way of turning your floorplans in to a grayscale floor plan so you can draw your electrical plans over them. I want my plans to plot much lighter than the electrical symbols and text.

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dimensioning and tracing

Where is the tool/button stored that when activated shows the length of a line. On the same full screen width toolbar/palette is a button to turn on the trace tool. I can not find and get this onto my screen...and then find a way to make it stay open...

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