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Angled Roof - How do I construct a skillion roof w/ 2 angles

With the roof tool how do I construct a skillion roof with two angles/pitches. For example. Select the roof tool, Selected the simple skillion roof, enter the first node of the roof pivot line, then the second node (usually vertical or horizontal) dr...

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wavy roof

I'm a beginner with Archicad. Been using it for like 2 months now and I know the basics..but when it comes to something difficult I'm having some problems.. I'm doing a project in school and we have to design an art gallery. The most special thing we...

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Tetrahedron

Apparently a tetrahedron can be cut from a cube by cutting the six edges of the tetrahedron along the diagonals of each of the faces of the cube. This would mean cutting through the section - can this be done with the marquee tool ? Or is there anoth...

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AC10 drawings freeze in LAYOUT

in AC10, placed drawings on a layout are frozen once placed there. They aren't locked. You simply cannot select them or modify them. The only single option is to go to EDIT, SELECT ALL, and then hit delete. You cannot drag, stretch, etc. This showed ...

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levels of transparency in layout

Hi I haven't been able to find anything about this in Help-material or these forums: I teach Archicad now and then The Royal Danish Academy of fine arts, school of Architecture, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The students naturally want their layouts to loo...

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How to model this in AC ???

How to model this in ac. I can easily do that in sketchup but how to do that in ac ??? in pic 3, i have to connect these two, but i have differnent number od seats This one is modeled in sketchup

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3d window going blank when orbiting

Just recently, I've found that the 3D window with opengl is going blank when I use the orbit navigation. the model is visible when I open the window and remains visible as I rotate it around but as soon as I stop, the window goes blank - all black. I...

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object settings not updating with selected object

Hi, I recently ran an update for AC 11, the update no. was 1210 by memory. It has fixed some problems with schedules and worksheets, but now leaves me with a more annoying problem. When I select an object, eg wall, the settings dialog will show the p...

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make a text symbol?

This started as me trying to make labels for my gridlines, stating what they were measuring. I wanted it to be a symbol so it would show up on every plan and if it changed, I wouldn't have to go through and change it on every plan. Basically so it wo...

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