Installation & update
About program installation and update, hardware, operating systems, setup, etc.

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Pen Mouse with no Tablet

Hi There, Is anyone out there using a wireless pen mouse to operate ArchiCAD without the use of a tablet? I am going to get one soon for other programs to input hand writing and it may prove beneficial to AC as well, if not I may get a tablet as well...

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Solid Element Operations-3D-Teamwork Bug Snow Leopard Bug

We are using AC15 in Teamwork. On a Snow Leopard ( 10.6.8 ) Operating System a mesh in one project does not show up in 3D while in Teamwork. With mesh shifted away from it's Operators - it is visible. Same project saved as Solo file - mesh is also vi...

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help me to recover my lost pln files

hi guys, I need your help guys. I had suddenly formatted my system and lost all my projects, tried to recover with all types of recovery utilities but, no luck I could not find the PLN file type in none of those utilities. is there any kind of progra...

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File error

After running antivirus software, my archicad v13 now gives me the same error message when I try to open any project file: file not found can't open for input while operating on file (name of file reflects project file name).xml The project files wor...

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AC15 Won't open at all, but it did before?!?

Hi folks, This is a very confusing one...Just installed AC15 last night, and ran it fine, opened up a file from AC13 which I was using fine before (and incidently still opens up fine despite the problem with AC15), downloaded some of the utilities an...

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I only see a black screen

Hello everyone, When i open the Archicad 15, i only see black screen (as seen screenshots) on the workspace. But i can see the workspace normally when i do pan or rotate view. My hardware and OS: Windows7 64bit 6gb ram, ati radeon hg5570 4gb gpu, int...

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The Essentials Interactive Training Guide

Hi there. I just downloaded the trial for AC 15 for PC, I come from a revit background so have some experience of BIM. I also downloaded the Essentials Interactive Training Guide and trying to work through it and I am stuck at an early stage. When cr...

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Shift & Ctrl Commands Stop Working

I am getting an annoying problem that when I am working in ArchiCAD, my Shift and Ctrl commands can stop working. The only way I have found to fix the problem is to restart my ArchiCAD. But this is a pain when it happens every day. Today I noticed th...

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