Installation & update

Mac Users: Do not upgrade to macOS 14.0 Sonoma before reading this...

macOS 14.0 Sonoma was released today (September 26, 2023). Every year, a bunch of folks immediately upgrade and then start posting here about things that don't work. Don't be one of those people Instead, first read Norbert Kucsma's official Graphisof...

Resolved! Archicad crashes on macOS 12.3 when closing a tab with the Tab Bar

UPDATED: the fix for this issue is part of Archicad 25 Update 5010 and a special hotfix Archicad 24 Update 7009, which was released for Archicad 24 and Archicad 24 Solo. Dear All, We have been notified about a new issue with Archicad on the latest up...

element information pop up (Info Tags)

I open archicad 14 and the cursor magnet pop up info tag was upside down and backwards. I re-installed the whole application and the hot patcches and it is still there. Weird. It is useful and I would like it to work. Any ideas out there. Cheers, Bri...

Surface painter crash (mesh target material missing)

Hi, Archicad 21 Built 5021 crashes while transferring material from a surface to a mesh that it's material is "missing". I have tried this with morph target and it doesn't crash. Takis

Surface Catalog won't download from ARCHIPLUS Member content

When I'm on the ARCHIPLUS Member content page, and I click the link to download the Surface Catalog, nothing downloads. It just takes me to the Help Page for the general information on "Create, Load, and Share Surfaces" (image attached for the page i...

Cannot uninstall AC17/install a working AC20 on Mac

I'm having a problem installing AC20 on my Mac. There is an error message that says that recent settings or original template are missing or corrupted when I try to start the program. We are currently using version 4020, because team work server hasn...

Workstation hardware

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ArchiCAD 21 & Windows 10 DPI scaling issues on 4K monitors - and partial workaround

I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has completely solved the issue of pixelated display of ArchiCAD drawing text and linework under Windows 10 Creators Update and April Update, for those on 4K monitors and thus with desktop UI scaling >...

Inserting an image problem

Have you noticed the following problem when inserting an image in ArchiCAD: the inserted image in .png (without a background) ) or in .jpg format gets a white outlining when inserted. Transparency is ticked but still it seems that AC adds a white out...

cannot install AC21 mac

When I try to install ArchiCAD 21, on the window to choose the installation folder, whichever location I choose in my mac hardest it says "The path you have entered is invalid. Please select another destination". What's happening? How to fix that? Th...

Internal error: unable to manipulate Archicad automates

'Internal error: unable to manipulate Archicad automates' is the warning message I got when overwriting some existing profiles with those in an .aat file, in Attribute Manager. Forgot to screenshot. What should I expect?

Problem with print

I've installed ArchiCAD 8.0.0 R1 on my home computer and on my laptop. The laptop is a pentium 4 with 456 mb of ram but when I run plotmaker 3.0 I can't get the page set-up to open. I'm on a ethernet router at home and my printer is going through tha...

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