Installation & update
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Random directory switch, crash, no autosave, no cache

Ouch! I have been working in a file that exists in a specific local job folder. It crashed when I tried to save and quit at the end of the day. Bug reporter fired up, but I chose not to report it. When I went to re-open it, thereby forcing the “orzel...

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lasse by Newcomer
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You must buy a Mac to be certain that ArchiCad works?

We currently have a mixed environment with Windows and MAC computers, but it's very difficult to understand what Graphisoft supports and does not support on Windows. On Mac this is what is stated by Graphisoft : This means a big difference between th...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Stairmaker Missing In ArchiCAD v.7

I am using an old version of ArchiCAD, Version 7. Since I am nearing retirement and completely familiar with this edition I have no wish to upgrade to a later version. My computer has a 32-bit operating system anyway, which I believe would be incompa...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Install Archicad 8.1 on Windows 7 machine?

I am a retired Architect and was given Archicad 8.1 (with dongle) as a retirement gift many years ago. I have been running it on a Windows XP machine with no problems. However, I just bought a new Windows 7 machine an Archicad won't install. Do I hav...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Launch new AC with Open Recent broken?

Just updated AC17 (6004)... My work environment still shows the checkbox checked for LAUNCH NEW AC ON OPEN RECENT... Yet with a file open and going to my open recent menu and choosing a file, it asks me to save what I'm working on and closes... Worke...

Memory problem?

Hello, Since days I can't use ArchiCAD, as I start to draw I get the following error message: C:\Program Files\GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD 17\ArchiCAD.exe Szabad hely az ideiglenes mappában (Free space in the temporary folder) : 127690.1 MB ....................

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Upgrade to less-than-current version of AC?

I am sort of in the same boat and considering upgrading because I'm so frustrated with the slowness at which my computer renders 3D objects. I recreate historic architectural elements from old photographs or fragments of historic objects (and they ha...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Weird, drag and drop stopped working

Goodmorning,awesome forum, weird thing...somehow drag & drop stopped working, I don't recall making any changes on any setting,maybe there is a hotkey toggling drag & drop on and off but for the life of me I cannot find something!

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Archicad 17 crash whenever click on toolbar

My Archicad 17 keeps crashing. I tried to install and update the latest driver for integrated graphic card and graphic card. It crashes, whenever I try to click on File, Design, Document ( the toolbar). Otherwise, there is no problem. Even the Bug re...

Is my iMac the problem?

Hi, I'm running AC17 on this iMac: IMac 24" 2.93 GHz Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 256MB I've been getting some nasty crashes, (actually not AC crashing, it is the whole computer seizing up, screen flickering and totally unresponsive), typ...

jbArch by Newcomer
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