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

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Gambrel roof

I am designing a house with a gambrel roof, and am modeling it for the first time. Anybody that has done it in the past give me any pointers?

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Quick error message

When performing a function with the roof (that did not work correctly) an error message flashes across the screen so quickly that I can't read it. It is a typical windows error box, has an exclamation point in a yellow box,but is on the screen no mor...

BUG: Change Element ID for Doors and Windows when Marquee is

When i select a region with the marquee and try to manage element ID for doors and windows then the change id button is INACTIVE. When i dont have a region selected everything is ok. For walls beams... the marquee works ok.

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Missing Meshes with Marquis

I'm building a gothic tower in ArchiCAD. The tracery windows are meshes autoscripted as MASSes into GDL window objects. These can be pretty intense, with maybe two thousand nodes and a dozen or so holes, but up until now they've been very well behave...

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Working with layers

Hi All, I need to hide a perticular door insted of all at a time. someone plz help me. Thanks n regards, Rajesh

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creating curtains & bedspreads in c4d or ac

Can anyone advise me on how do i create window curtains or bedspreads in c4d. Are there any tutorials which i can be linked too or can someone give me a basic walkthrough? Also I'm an archicad 9.0 user and i try to do most of my modelling in archicad...

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Text edit window problem

I'm being frustrated with the text edit window not showing correctly what will be the final output once the text is placed. This shows the correct placed output.

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Hollow profile

I've got a roof member that I made with profiler. It is one solid polyline, but only the edges are solid. The whole interior is hollow, and you can see through it. What am I doing wrong? I select the object, which is one PL. Then I go to profiler, se...

Setting print preferences, ArchiCAD 9

Our IT have tracked the problem and reported it for our forum. This should be in PROBLEM/SOLUTION section or ArchiGuide. Regards here it goes: ______________________ User experiencing problems selecting and setting preferences for printers within Arc...

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Round window in Round Tower

Greetings all. I am a new user who is working in a Demo version and trying to make sure that I'm savvy enough to actually use ArchiCAD on a day to day basis. So I expect I may have a few other questions along the way but today's question is: How can ...

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