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Undocumented Improvements in AC16

JaredBanks
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Last year Link started a thread on undocumented changes to AC 15. I thought it'd be great to start a list of undocumented changes in ArchiCAD 16.

I've written a bit about each of the 3 changes I'm aware of in a blog post that I'll use to spread the word about this list. I really loved the thread from last summer, so here's hoping to some good surprises here.

Here's the post: http://www.shoegnome.com/?p=785

Here's the start of the list...

1) The Z-buffer Rendering Engine is gone.
2) Now you can click on a special snap point for the first point of a split command.
3) Empty Opening (ArchiCAD 15) has become Simple Window Opening (ArchiCAD 16). I haven't explored enough to know the differences, but... it did mess up my window schedules that were excluding Empty Opening. So that's probably documented in the window changes, but I thought I'd add the info here anyways.

Who's got others?
Jared Banks, AIA
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Anonymous
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Wall Priorities and Composite priorities can now be set at odd numbers too.
Barry Kelly
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There is also this article in ArchicadWiki ... http://www.archicadwiki.com/ArchiCAD16ChangesGuide

I am happy that the file history is back in library manager.
Barry.
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Anonymous
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The Selections pallet is dockable and it's size is adjustable.