Modeling
About Archicad's design tools, element connections, modeling concepts, etc.

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mesh tool question

I know its been asked and answered before, but I couldn’t find any of the threads.. But how do I get a mesh to have a uniform thickness of say 100mm or what ever.. instead of the bottom having a set height and it gets thicker the higher the mesh goes...

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Associative Labels -Auto-Scale in Print Plotting?

I'm plotting a drawing with a new style of office template, and I've run into a problem with my "associative" ( think; it's the "label wall" box in the actual element that I've checked) wall labels... I've arranged the labels (which will be used for ...

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Transparency in elevations,

I am trying to enable transparency in a frameless glass balustrade but keep my windows non-transparent. I know how to turn transparency on globally and have used a different glass material for the balustrade then gone to material settings and changed...

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Transparency in elevations,

I am trying to enable transparency in a frameless glass balustrade but keep my windows non-transparent. I know how to turn transparency on globally and have used a different glass material for the balustrade then gone to material settings and changed...

Arcadia by Contributor
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Zone Stamp missing....

Hello, I upgraded my ArchiCAD 12 library to the latest one a while ago when it came out. Recently I've noticed, when I do a zone the zone stamp is missing. It won't show the area, room name, etc. It just says "Room" and has the usual dot like when a ...

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Trace/rerference COPY

Is there a way to copy the trace - as to make it a 2d drawing?

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2 Quick questions for newbie (or at least I hope quick)

Thanks for your reply, yes I have Archicad, the full version. Anyways during input of the wall, how do I specify how long I want it to be? I've tried just typing in numbers like AutoCad, but that doesn't work. Also where would I change default thickn...

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PDF conversion problem

hello, I have a big issue. I want to export in PDF some layouts. I have some Tiff file imported in the layout and a drawing over the image file. when I want to publish in PDF the tiff image is not present or only a part of it. do you know how to solv...

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Pen shapes change?

is there any way to change the pens line shape? I want them to be square-like, like here below:

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