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...

Draftsmanship tutorials -great book from the times of AC ~8

At the times of AC 8, perhaps 7 or 8.1, there was a great little physical book by a some Polish? author. It might have been called something like "First Steps in Archicad", but I may also be mixing up its name with some other one. I think it was this...

AC19 3D Explore window 'drifts' when stopped

Built a new PC this week with Windows 10, Quadro P600, and have AC19 and AC21 installed. AC21 has no issues. I have several projects to continue work on in AC19 and now when I move around in the 3d Explore window and then stop moving the view slowly ...

Best and optimal configuration for ArchiCAD

Hello there and Merry Christmas! We bought recently a new configuration for our office. In my opinion we have something in the middle class of computers: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GhZ RAM: 16 GB DDR4 Video card: GeForce GTX 1070 8GB DDR5 HDD: A...

Recommended graphic card for AC 18

Hi, Can anyone tell that which is the recommended graphic card for AC 18 for HP pavilion laptop. I secrhed in net but all showing that hp has Nvidia GeForce which is not recommended by GS website. So please can any one tell us. Thank you.

How to label contour lines on mesh?

Hi all - I was wondering if there is a way to sort of "auto label" the contours on a site that I created using the mesh feature? Or maybe a way you can click on the line(s) and then it gives you the datum information? Thanks so much and happy new yea...

Archicad 21 OSX El Capitan..doesn't work!

Hi Archicad users, I'm writing for the first time in this forum. I have a problem: I've always used AC 16 on my Macbook pro 2009 with Osx Maverick..then I have updated it to the 10.11 El Capitan. I wanted to try AC 21 trial version (on myarchicad) bu...

Scissors crash AC21 on MacOS

When I use scissors, some lines/plines instead of cutting cause the app to crash. When one line causes it to crash it will always crash trying to cut that line. I mean, like this - cutting that line will always result to crash if I use scissors (axe ...

System compatability

Does ArchiCAD 18 works on NVIDIA® GeForce® 940MX (2 GB DDR3 dedicated) and Windows 10 Home 64 on this?

ArchiCAD 21 5010 update - 3d window

I installed the 5010 update today but I am now getting a lot of crashes when I go to the 3d window. If I select one element eg. a wall I do a "show selection in 3d" it works however when I activate the 3d window with nothing selected and most of the ...

Archicad is locking up with spinning blue donut

Just installed and updated 21 build 5010 becuase of Open GL issues. After loading the session one tutorial and panning once the spinning blue-donut would not go away. It happened again after restarting. I have 16GB ram i7 with nothing else running an...

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