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3d/2d coordination

I hate to keep harping on this but, after building a model for presentation I spend an enomous amount of time trying to coordinate the 3d model with the floor plans. Then changes later on are very time consuming. If the design is out of the ordinary ...

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Elevation Change Symbol

My apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask this question. I did see the "Any other not ArchiCAD related questions" subtitle so I thought that I'd ask here. We are wondering what symbol convention other people are using for minor elevat...

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Scanned images placed in Arch or PlotM plot in diff. loc.

Greetings, Scanned images placed into ArchiCAD or PlotMaker plot in different location. The type of file seems to make no difference. tif, wmf,jpeg no difference. Example of what I am trying to do 1) Add scanned site plan to ArchiCAD. 2) Draw a line ...

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Support upgrade Architerra AC8 to AC8.1

I was upgrading online architerra 2.0 for AC8 ti AC8.1, but during the process I first by my own mistake select the wrong botton (serializacion) before select (CONECT) and now I have blocked my serial number, the solution that gaves me this is that I...

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trusses

i have drawn a warren truss in ac9 and the truss is supposed to be 10-6 3/8 long constructed of 2x4's. i drew the truss and when i switched to 3-d it said "divide by zero at line 50 of file Warren Truss.gsm" asked me to stop or continue. then i conti...

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presentation

i want to print a colored plan with images. i have prepared the layout but, while using the zoom extend command, the layout is huge, and most of it is empty. i can't find any entities and can't continue to make a useful tif or bmp file to produce a q...

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Corrupt PRINT functionallity!

It is a first time I see a bug like that. File/Print command won't work. It accepts ONLY default settings and default printer, any changes made to printer settings are disregarded when confirmed by pressing OK??? Any suggestions? My guess is that it ...

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Hot key Problems

Hi Wonder if anyone can help. We run Archicad 7 and 8 on Apple Macs and have a problem using the drag a copy, mirror a copy hot keys in version 8. You are supposed to key 'Control and D' or 'M' then drag pressing the option key. This works intermitte...

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Text Editor: Mac vs. PC

"on Mac, if I drag the Editor palette, the the text Editing box goes with it. But on Windows, the Palette detaches from the edit box and the box stays put. Is this the way it is supposed to work? Sometimes with closely spaced labels, the text editing...

About Plotmaker

Hi All, Its grate to have a talk fourm like this, by that one can xplore on AC a lot. can any one help me about, how to place my drawings on a layout in plotmaker? I feel thanks to Mr.Dwight for clarifying my doubts on light works. Thanks & Regards, ...

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