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Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Anonymous
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I want to make a composite wall with 19 centimeters in width, and 1.5 centimeters in covering on both end of the wall.
Is this possible in Archicad ? It seems a 0.5 can not be entered as the thickness, only round numbers. Right?

thank you for the reply.
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Dwight
Newcomer
What tolerances/accuracies have you set for working units? I work in mm - there's no problem entering 0.5.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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No problems here to input 1,5cm! (decimal separator is "comma")
Anonymous
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Thank you for the reply. Both of you.
I am working with cm (centimeters).

My problem was, that I needed to set 1 Decimal in the Working Units (both for Model and Layout units)
Now I can enter .5 as a layer thickness into the Composite structures. Andro this is very strange, maybe we are using different types of Archicad 14. At my place I can enter numbers with .5 but not with ,5

Now I am interested in new problem: Why Dimension tool does not show the exact value of mortar thickness? The thickness is 1.5 cm, but when I add a dimension marks on my wall, the value varies to 1.5 +- 0.10. Why is that?
Take a look at the video, maybe it will be more clear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6M3ZfSuaFI
Erwin Edel
Rockstar
You can define how many decimals and rounding up / down in project preferences.

http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/publishing/ac15_help_INT/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=...

save a preset once you are happy with the settings and then define this preset in your views.
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
www.leloup.nl

ArchiCAD 9-26NED FULL
Windows 10 Pro
Adobe Design Premium CS5
Anonymous
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Dot "." or comma "," for decimal is a global settings of Windows, not in ArchiCAD!
Anonymous
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Thank you for the reply. Both of you.
Erwin I did not understand you.
By "rounding up" you meant: "Extra accuracy"? But that is not what I need. Extra accuracy adds more accuracy to the value.


Sandro I did not understand you eaither. Archicad does not allow usage of "dot" and "comma", but windows does?

Sorry for inconvenience. I do not wish to sound rude or arrogant, it`s just I did not understand.
Dwight
Newcomer
You set up the dot comma thing in your Regional Customizer
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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Thank you Dwight. Now I understand what Andro said: If I am going to use the "dot" or "comma" separator as a decimal sign, this depends on the Windows Regional Customizer in Windows Control Panel. Not on Archicad.
Right?
Dwight
Newcomer
Try it and see.
Dwight Atkinson