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2024-06-30 04:33 PM - edited 2024-06-30 04:35 PM
I made a template that is convenient for me to work with. The template represents a project I have already completed. In this template, I also laid out cold and hot water routes, sewerage and ventilation. Everything worked fine, almost. Now, I am making my new project in this file, but when I start laying a route on the floor plan, the panel does not appear in which the direction (vertical or horizontal) is indicated. I just can't find this panel! I changed the profile to MEP, but it didn't help
Operating system used: Windows 10
2024-06-30 05:58 PM
Hi retdot,
In Archicad 27 you won't find the routing palette anymore because of a new MEP Tool:
If you want to have the routing palette you'll have to stay with AC 26.
2024-06-30 07:41 PM
Yes I understand. I just don’t understand why it’s impossible to make a vertical pipeline on the plan now? In each new version of Archikad, a new bunch of tabs and submenus appear. Some things in the interface are duplicated 3 times! The program began to resemble a trash can where both good and bad are thrown away. Do you really think that users expect a garbage interface from you?!!
2024-07-01 04:39 AM
Hi @retdot
Sure, there're major changes for MEP modeling from AC26 to 27 & that's accompanied with some enhancements.
For creating the vertical branch of the pipe or duct route you can draw the whole wrote or a segment of it in floor plan then via 3d view you can offset the segment vertically, see attached Screenshots.
2024-07-01 09:07 AM
Why doesn't the MEP library load by default when you switch the profile to MEP engineer? Wouldn't that be logical? I spent all day yesterday to understand that it turns out that I simply did not have the MEP library loaded, so all the drawn elements look like dots on the plan. The Grafisoft team cannot make a floating message that would say that “the library is not loaded, your object will not be displayed on the floor plan and in 3D.”