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ArchiCAD for construction purposes??

Hi all! I just joined this forum and I work at a large civil engineering company in Sweden (www.ncc.se). I have been working with ArchiCAD for several years by now mostly in R&D projects since we are deeply stuck in the 2D Autocad mud. I wonder if th...

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how to plot A1 LANDSCAPE on an A0 roll feed

how to plot A1 landscape on an A0 roll feed and not waste paper. . . see attached PDF 'how-to' that took much longer to figure out than it seems! this was worked out for our practice back in the OS9/archiCAD 6.5 days, and for an HP330 plotter, but th...

Virtual Building - Material List, by Karl Ottenstein

Glad the quickie property script exploration was useful, Geoff. I agree with David as far as using the Interactive Schedule for things such as the window schedule example that you give ... and for most day-to-day work other than BOM. This thread star...

Walls Not Wrapping Columns

I'm having trouble understanding when walls will wrap columns and when they will not. I've placed a column "by the book", i.e., composite wall w/ wrapping skins, chose wrapping before placing column, column touches wall core. While I can get many ins...

Detail Markers

Why dont the detail marker borders show in plotmaker?

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Length distance of polygon wall shape to use to Calculate

I'm trying to use the calculate menu to find lengths of items. I'm listing out counters and I want to list Length of wall on Reference line side but what side is the ref. line side of a polygon wall (We sometimes need to use polygon walls as counters...

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Wall Hatch in 8.1

We have upgraded to 8.1 but have now found that fills within composites now dont rotate when the element is rotated. Is there a way around this?

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curtain walls

How do i create a curved curtain wall or replica? Not as easy as that unfortunately. The curve is irregular, imagine a banana with 30% of it straight at one end. In plan thats what i need to do. Ive at the minute only created a glass wall. Its just n...

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window transparency in hidden line views

In previous versions (6.5 ?) AC standard windows had very useful glazing on/off box, allowing you to see through windows in basic 3d hidden line views when glazing box was checked off. This is not rendering, nor shaded view so 3d transparency and mat...

Sloped Walls of a Cylinder

Subject: Sloped Walls.............any ideas >? Hello. I am trying to use Archicad to produce a model of a lighthouse. The walls are circular and sloped like a cone. Is there a way to modify a cylindrical wall to be "cone" shaped ? I am new to GDL so ...

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