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

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Working On Multi-Unit Developments

Hi Friends, I am doing a multi unit development where each unit has a different floor finish and ceiling finish level. For now I have just ignored the levels in the project and manually drawn in level lines. But it means a lot of inconsistencies with...

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Shell with Multiple Rotation Axes

I have been unsuccessful thus far trying to model a particular shape, but I'm hoping there is way to do it in Archicad. The shape is probably most easily understood by looking at the attached images. The shell tool comes close to accomplishing the sh...

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Vectorial Hatching in Elevation - ArchiCAD 20

I can't get sun shadows or vectorial hatching to show on my exterior elevations. I think I've gathered that the control of this feature has moved from the Elevation Selection Settings to Graphic Overrides but I can't figure out how to make this work....

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Clean files .pln

I have a pln file that has 277 mb that gave error. I changed the drawings to a clean sheet and now the new pln file has 66 mb. My question is: What happened? Is there any way to clean the file without having to create a new one?

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Custom Roofing Modelling

Hi friends, I am having trouble modeling a roof, the first attachment is how the roof needs to be. Now I have managed to model it to the correct shape and fall, as per attachment 2. However, I cannot adjust the angle of the pitch, there is a yellow e...

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Resolved! complex profile walls

How do I tell Archicad what the exterior side of a complex profile wall is. I've created a pony wall that's cmc block on the lower part and 2x4 framing on the upper part of the wall but when I place the wall in a floor plan the walls are reversed the...

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Curtain wall hole

Is there a way to create a real hole inside a curtain wall? I'd like to have real boundary and real panel quantities, not boolean operation.

Keep zoom and orientation when swithing windows

I have start working in Archicad 20 and when I change view window it zooms out and orientation goes back to 0 degrees, which is rather annoying. This wasn't the case in my previous version, I guess (hope) this is a setting.

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labels showing object specific data?

Hello all, I am trying to get labels to show object specific data. My example is related to the french object library but should apply to any: The object "Poubelle 02 20" (it's a garbage container) is very handy as it contains predefined standard siz...

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Morph and wall intersections

When two morphs with same material and priority intersect or are tangent they will show correctly in plan and section. If a wall and a morph are tangent/intersected and merged, they will only show correctly in section view but not in the plan view. W...

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