Open an old archicad 7 file
Hi! I try to open with Archicad 9 a PLA file made with 7 and I have this message: " Input file is incorrect or memory full " Please any Help? Thanks
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Exterior Walls, Layering
I'm fairly new in working in archicad, and I've recently put a renovation project in the program. I was working in the file on the roof system when I switched to another view and the first floor exterior walls disappeared! How can I find them or are ...
Save & place on a layout question
Created a separate layer for stairs in plan so that they would not show on the reflected ceiling plan and now they don't show on some layouts that were created earlier. In this case, is there a way to get the placed layout to show the new layer setti...
File Creation Date Change
I have this file that is running VERY slowly and so today I went in and deleted anything extraneous. I happened to look in the finder and see that it is showing a file creation date of 12/31/1969. This really can't be good. Does anyone know anything ...
tilted lines in perspective view
Hello I'm working on a project for school and am now making 3d perspectives. Problem is that the vertical lines are tilted... Is there a way to straiten all vertical lines? I'm going to render as scetches. I'm using Archicad 16 EDU on a PC running Wi...
How do i edit a cadimage wall covering favorite?
so i have saved my coverings as favorites while the covering tool is activated with a wall selected. which works great. however when i go into my favorites dialog box out side of the settings dialog box the favorite does not exsist. i can see the fav...
Overhead Linetype Problems
Hi Folks, Could anyone please help me with the following. I have a roof element on the fourth story that has a 25% cover fill with a solid outline. The floor plan display is set to 'outline only' and the show on stories setting is set to 'home story ...
Modeling antique facade - how to quick and easy ?
Hello everyone, I'll need to draw an antique facade, such as one here on the right: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2560841768_b300e8676d_o.jpg I have a lot of survey sketches and dimentions on paper so my idea was to draw it in 2d in archicad fi...
Elevations | blended vectorial hatching/material view
A question on the display of Vectorial Hatching in the elevation tool. Two identical elements are placed together, in this case two columns. They have the same material, therefore the same vectorial hatch in elevation. Short of assigning them differe...
Open new instance of ArchiCAD
I would like to set this to default, so when ever I open a new file it will open it into a new instance, so that there is no risk of me closing down by-mistake the file i am currently working on. Is there a way to set this up?
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