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Archicad 15 starting problem

I have an acer laptop runs with i7 8gb ram geforce 555m (1gb) windows 7 home edition x64 . I downloaded archidcad from the official website for students . i installed it and everything went fine. After it finishes, i try runing it and it starts but i...

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Opening Plotmaker 9 In File Conversion Package

Hello, I am in the process of installing Archicad 9 on my Intel Mac Snow Leopard (10.6). I downloaded the file from the Graphisoft site, and am now running Archicad through Rosetta. However, when I go to open Plotmaker I get an error: "Please unlock ...

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Scroll Issues

Hi Everyone, I have recently switch to archicad 15 and are having some troubles with my scroll zoom. The scroll seems to have taken some party drug and just keeps on zooming with the slightest scroll. Has anyone else had this problem? It could be a L...

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Skewed Layouts

All my layouts on one project have rotated. See attached. Cannot figure out how or why or fix it. The Rotate Orientation does not work in Layouts. The Sheet looks like it has changed shape to conform to the corner of the Layout. The Master Layouts ar...

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AC15 process bogging down?

I just installed AC15 and have noticed that while the curser is over the edge of a wall or slab, as soon as the mercedes symbol shows it starts to switch between it and the watch about every second. it makes snapping to division points impossible. i ...

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AC15 won't display layout titleblocks

I am finding that since upgrading to a newer graphic card (an NVidia GTX580) ArchiCAD no longer displays title block info of any sort in layouts (whatever layers are switched on), though will display contents of master layout used when that is opened...

DOOR LIST WONT REFRESH

After reading some post, I realize AC15 have some bugs related to windows and doors. Something came up while working here in my ofice. When I opened the Doors list, the screen kindda froze and they never updated. After that, when i tried to return to...

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Nvidia Quadro FX880m Grapics Card

I have just got a Laptop HP EliteBook 8540 Work station with a Quadro FX880M Graphics card. I am having issues with the ghosting disappearing all the time when dragging items. This can be sorted by going into a section or elevation, then it works for...

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Nvidia GT540 Optimus 2G

I would appreciate to know if this notebook is ok with archicad 15, specially for the video card. Samsung RF511-S06 8 GB RAM INTEL CORE i5 2430M Windows 7 64 bits Nvidia GT540 Optimus 2G Thanks

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Archicad 15 problem with running

Hello, I have a problem with Archicad 15 (Archicad 14 I went without any problems) When I run the AC 15 with a trial version so that freezes on the initial picture. The software and hardware in the PC I should be fine. I have windows 7 ultimate - i7 ...

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