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Shortcut for H and V length

Hi, In AC9, when drawing (say) a rectangle polyline I could specify the height and width by using the "X" and "Y" shortcut on the keyboard. But in AC10, X and Y refer to the X and Y co-ordinates (and hence my polysquare ends up in the wrong place wit...

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signature in Plotmaker for PDFs

Sometimes we want to put a signature into a set of drawings in Plotmaker and then create PDFs from the drawings. When we look at the PDFs the signature looks very pixelated. What is the best way to get a signature into a Plotmaker drawing that will b...

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Publishing to DWF

We use ArchiCad and AutoCAD in our office and one thing that impresses me about AutoCAD is the creation of DWF files. In my opinion these are much better than PDFs as you can zoom and pan just like AutoCad in the free viewer. Contractors love it too....

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Fonts problem in PDF

Hi to all, the problem is weird, because i published 4 layouts to pdf in the first time in "verdana", so 3 were good but the last one shows me an error something like " jdihlk+verdana" "izkgbm+arial" and many like these..., so i tried with many fonts...

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Printing from AC10 (966)

We are unable to print from AC10 to any printers. HP4000 jetdirect, HP1220, HP500. PDF's print, though not from publisher. Please help! Paul Landesman OS10.3.9 dual 1.8 GHz PowerPc G5 1.25 GB DDR SDRAM

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Hotlink AC10

I have A.pln and B.pln. "B" are hotlinked stories of "A". Now I'm trying to insert a "B" view into "A" Layout and looks like is making the process but it never ends. Here's what I'm doing: I model one building which is going to be repetitive in the p...

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Dimmension problems

Hi all, my dimensions look tiny when I view my drawing in layout. I have set the scale to 1"=50' for both the drawing and the layout. what should I do to make them legible? thanks, Habi

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Link all files except maybe 10 to different Archicad file

We are working on a project in V9 and I saved our plp file to a pln file and now I need to relink all files in plotmaker back to the pln file instead of the plp file. When I highlight all the files I want to change ( I also tried only story files) th...

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Dimension core of composite walls does not work

Hello, I have been using archicad for about 3 years now. Several months ago I switched to ver 9 and now I'm using ver 10. I always use composite walls. For instance a composite consisting of 1/2" gyp. bd. ea side and a 3 1/2" wood stud. For some reas...

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Plotter Preferences

I set up a template file in AC10 to use in our office. I created several custom sheet sizes in 'Plot Set-up" to meet the needs of our firm. I cannot figure out how to get these custom sheets and other plotter preferences onto everyone computer in our...

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