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Unexpected Shutdown of Archicad

Hello, I'm using the student version of Archicad 12. It shuts himself suddenly down, whenever i'm working. A bug reporter window pops up and then it also disappears. As far as i could examine, the shutdown doesn't have anything to do, with any partic...

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Hourly Key Charges Double Time

We have found that our hourly key charges double time when we have two instances of Archicad running at once. I called our retailer and they told us "yes we kind of knew that" they said that they have heard of the issue, but have never seen it person...

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Archicad 12 freezing when i open my file

When i try open my file that i've been working on the past week, it states that "this project is in use...", Open with exclusive access, dont open or open read only file. The file will then hang after clicking either option. It also does this with th...

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Problem with Calibri font

Does anyone else out there use the Calibri font. We are having problems with certain letter combinations in lower case only not printing in the PDF. They are fine on screen in Archicad and the layout book. Just a problem when published or printed to ...

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Root menus

The main root menus on my ArchiCAD 12 are: "File, Edit, View, Design, 3D Visualization, Options, Teamwork, Window, Help." The main root menus shown on the ArchiCAD 12 training video are: "File, Edit, View, Design, Document, Options, Teamwork, Window,...

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Cursor Problem - Can't Select or Change Anything

I've got a really weird problem. I just installed AC12, drew a whopping total of 5 walls and one door (which is hugely oversized and overlaps another wall, because I was braindead when I did it) - and now I can't do another thing in the model, even a...

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Hotfix 5 Install Problem

OK, I give up. Hotfix 5 downloaded as two files - a completely empty *.exe file, and a large *.exe.part file that is obviously the actual file, although I have no idea what that weird double extension is all about. Neither one will open when I try to...

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Problem with placing Artlantis renders on AC12

I rendered elevations on artlantis saving them as TIF. at 600 and one 300 Dpi to see if there was any differance in quality. The one at 600 opened up once then openend black 2nd time and the one at 300 opens up black too, any ideas why? Also what do ...

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Refresh issues with Nvidia GeForce 8400GS Grahics Cards

We have two new computers with Gigabyte MB, Intel Duo E7400 CPU, 4GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8400GS graphics cards all running on windows XP (32). Both machines are having the same problem, silhouettes of dialogue boxes remaining on the screen after you ...

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My computer freezes everytime I click view in 3D-mode

I got a slight problem with ArchiCAD; read topic line:) This is the second time I've installed ArchiCAD on my computer, first I installed the trial version, and then, due to some issues, I had to reinstall the program (with a student license nr) I've...

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