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

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TIP: How to repair a corrupt PLN file

Here is a tip I learned from Tech Support the other day to recover a corrupt file. In fact, we have tried it on a Teamwork file that was giving us problems for more than a week (one team member crashed every time he would send & receive). This method...

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Blank entries in Calculate Menu formatted list

Hi I always seem to get the first 2 fields as blank any graphical formatted list generated by the Calculate menu. Why might this be? - and How do I remove them!! It looks awful in what is meant to be a table Is it some weird artifact due to grouping ...

Slabs behind walls, columns...

In a plan view in plot maker, the slabs are indicated through the walls and columns, and i can't seem to get them to hide correctly. If one has a solid filled grey or white wall, column, or other 3d construct above a slab, and it is brought to the fr...

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eye dropper attributes

When using the eye dropper (copy attributes) then the syringe (paste attributes) can you be selective about what attributes to transfer? for example copy the layer and colour attributes from one wall to the other without changing the thickness and he...

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Shadows Analysis

Has anyone work on shadow analysis with AC? I haven't use AC to do that but I have seen it in VW and kinda complicating which needed to be tweaked with Photoshop to see the existing and new shadows overlapping. I would like to hear what others have d...

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Special characters in text boxes

Has it disappeared from AC8.1 ? I use PowerPro to insert special characters (Ø, ‡, |, etc) in every windows application using keyboard shortcuts, but it doesn't work anymore. I tried to use the standard way (ALT+0216 = Ø, for example), but it won't w...

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Vectorial fill patterns

I have deleted most of the fills and composites in order to have just the ones I normally work with. Unfortunately I deleted some fills that I would like to have back plus possibly get some others. Is there a way to import vectorial fills?

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Layer combinations in PlotMaker 3.1

Plotmaker 3.1 creates layers for doors and windows that are placed in walls. I created a new layer in Archicad 8.1 named "Alternate" and placed walls, doors and windows on it. I also created a new layer combination for this new layer. Then I saved th...

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What is Simplest Plotting (not Printing) Config for OSX?

(ArchiCAD 8 instructions below, for ArchiCAD 7 please see FAQ's 106, 107 at http://tr.graphisoftus.com/) You would like to be Plotting or Printing? What's the difference? see FAQ 344 same URL. The Gimp-Print, X-RIP, PS, and built-in OS X are printer-...

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