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Wall End Cap - Offset from end

Greetings, In the attached plan view screenshot a wall end cap appears in the correct position, except that it has a ghost outline offset from the end. When viewed in 3D, the end cap is positioned at the ghost location. What could possibly be wrong? ...

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NVIDIA GeForce Cards

im looking to buy a new DELL laptop and i cant find to much on laptop graphics cards and archi cad.. just wanted to check is the GeForce cards are fine for archi cad before buying the lap top.. specificly the GT 550M and/or the GT525M AC12/13/14/15 t...

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Netbooks and/or Tablets

Does anyone here have any experience with Archicad on devices such as netbooks or tablets? Does it even run on processors like Atom or do you have to have a x86 INTEL or AMD processor? Many of those devices I see have Windows Home installed and I'm w...

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WIBU KEY not found on some computer outside firewall?

Hi! We have setup our firewall so we could access our wibu-key from outside office. It works on most computer. But we have an windows 7, 64-bit computer that wont find the wibukey when it's outside our network. It's a fresh installation of ArchiCad 1...

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ArchiCAD will not start up - did not install QuickTime...

I have installed a registered, student version of ArchiCAD and started it up today. The main popup screen on load shows up, then an empty gray full screen box behind it, but nothing else happens. I've left it there, because my cursor is acting like t...

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Error Message upon opening

I am receiving the following error message when opening a file in Archicad 13. Sources of the following Drawings are missing or they are in legacy format. To make these drawings updateable, please -Relink the missing sources to their current location...

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Materials not showing in 3D OpenGL / GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Problem: "GeForce 275.33 Driver" causing a "materials not showing" problem in 3D-window Open-GL mode. Se this topic: archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=36633 Solution: Install older driver "GeForce/ION Driver v270.61". I'm experience the sa...

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WIBU dongle is not found

My customer has 2 ArchiCAD 14 net licenses, protected by means of WIBU dongle. WIBU dongle was inserted to USB plug on the server without DNS. Sometime ArchiCAD don't start and display message "Key not found..., but if I restart WIBU key service, the...

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ArchiCAD 15 INT (30-Day Trial) Install Problem

Hi, during the instal proces the pop-up window did not apear, so I was unable to insert my User ID and Serial number. I saw only that rotating circle. The program installs and I can run it, but only in DEMO mode. Is there a solution to these?

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Corrupt file?

I recently reapplied for a new one year license with ArchiCAD (Edu version), and got the new serial number which I put into the registration box. It said it was not valid, and since then when I try open ArchiCAD, it says "Corrupt ArchiCAD educational...

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