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Resolved! Roof Pivot Line or Pitch Point, how to hide

Hi,I've got a simple roof.How do I hide the Roof Pivot Line In Plan View?The Purple is the Roof, Red-dashed is Annotated line work of External Wall outline.(Please see attached)

cadsph by Enthusiast
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How to add a new wall to favorites?

Hi! I am a beginner in Archicad, but not to BIM. I have created a new wall by changing an exsisting one under Options, Element Attributes, Composites. All well so far But how do I add this wall to favorites so I can start using the wall?

Beginner by Participant
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Wavy lines in 3D perspective when saved and placed on layout.

Hi All, I have been trying to figure out how to not get wavey lines when I place a 3D view on my layout. It looks great in my 3D window, everything is straight & can see all the details. I have watched videos and have taken all the advice. I have cha...

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Hannah77 by Participant
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Resolved! Joints of wall suddenly stopped working

Hi all,I have a very strange issue with wall joints (angles) of a house I am drawing right now.I had a perfectly working joints of all floors but at a certain point the joints of the walls of the first floor stopped intersecting. The joints of the sa...

balarca by Contributor
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Roof eave texture / fill

Hi everyone!Ran into a problem with texture orientation on the roof eave. Was scratching my head for a couple of hours, but couldn't find a solution. The texture and fill seem to be perpendicular to the roof-sloped surface by default. How on earth ca...

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Automatic numbering in schedules

Hello!I have a question I wanted to ask all of you regarding automatic numbering in schedules. I have created a door schedule based on the type of door it is (ie wooden interior door). Let's say that I have 20 such doors in that project. I would like...

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HelenE by Booster
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Extend maximum view cone (angle) in 3D view

In 3D projection settings we can set view angle (cone) to the maximum of 120 degrees. This may seem like a lot, but honestly, for inspecting interiors it's not too much. I'd like to set it to 150 degs. Can we maybe change this value in registry or in...

Mike96 by Enthusiast
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Resolved! How to align 2D survey with mesh from surveyors data?

Hi All, I typically just manually create topo mesh by tracing lines from the survey, but wanted to try the "Place Mesh From Surveyors Data" and see if it would save me some time. I asked the surveyor for a .txt or .xyz of the topo data and they sent ...

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srdavids by Contributor
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Resolved! Label Favorites not transferable to new version

I upgraded my template from 25 to 26 and now just noticed my labels has all been switched to default of text/autotext - zone name. For some reason I'm not able to import my label favorites from 25 to 26. It says not compatible since I was pulling it ...

sknsnw9 by Booster
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