Modeling
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Avoid visualisation of lights in 2D

Hi, I wonder if there is a way I can disable the visualisation of lights in 2d. I can disable the symbol, but not the rectangle or the arrow that points the direction. Regards

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Resolved! Offset railing post from base line?

Hi, I'm getting closer to some decent railings for our internal favourites list. I was working on a balcony railing yesterday and I want the first (and last) post to have a gap to the wall but the center of the post is placed at the beginning/end of ...

Resolved! demo wall and new wall

I have demo walls that are dashed. That layer is turned off. I'm drawing new wall on top of it. Wherever it intersects the dashed demo wall, it it shows up as being cut off. How do I get the new walls to show up as continuous? please see attached ima...

dhnguyen by Contributor
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Shadows of a building like fill ins

I wonder if it is possible to get the shadows of a building an treated like fill ins to edit and change the color and appearance.

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Invisible elements bug

I have a very weird problem. There are some elements in the project (walls, columns and doors) that interact with zones and other elements but are absolutely not visible in 2d and 3d. I can list them in schedule but they are refered as "locked" and c...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Blocks

Is it possible to have in an own files "blocks" like small files used for different purposes in projects. Regards

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Resolved! Railing rail/toprail join settings?

Hi, Making our first 21 railing venture and I have a real world example I want to recreate. I want to have a continous top railing (ok...mitered in the corner) but the rails should stop at the end posts... Any idea?

Drawing a slab.

I have some questions about drawing a slab. For instance the slab of the flooring of the first floor, where should be drawn In the first floor with 0 relative elevation or in the previous floor with the real height elevation.

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