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

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HELP TROUBLE WITH ARCHICAD WORKING PROPERLY

HELP I KEEP GETTING THIS MESSAGE WHEN I TRY TO "REBUILD" MY SECTIONS. AlSO WHEN I TRY TO USE PERSPECTIVE VIEW /Applications/Graphisoft/ArchiCAD 15ArchiCAD Tamaño partición : 4194288 K Sin usar en carpeta temporal : 105660.5 MB Número de procesadores ...

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help please: remove reference line direction arrow

some times a small thing makes you belive that you don't know anything about archicad , 3 days i'm trying to find the way to remove the arrow that shows the direction of wall and it even passe through doors, please advice me to remove this option reg...

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Materials on 3rd party objects dont appear in renders.

Hi, Whenever I take a photo render using the Lightworks rendering engine, all 3rd party objects I have obtained from websites appear with a mirror-type, high reflecting material, instead of the standard materials that appear in the OpenGl 3D browsing...

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Structural Drafting

So here is my question. When creating stuctural drawings I like the ability to show the walls above in the framing plan I am drawing in a dashed line and to have some type of control of the line weights on the walls below. I have read some older post...

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Windows "closing up?"

Hi everyone, I'm working in AC13 and I'm having trouble with a couple of windows. The two windows at the ground floor got "filled" for some reason. In theory, they are supposed to be exactly as the two ones above them. I alreafy fixed the problem by ...

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...teaching maths to Archicad?

Hi everyone, I'm trying to automate some calculations I need to do using AC13. The calculation I need is very simple: gross zone volume. So I created a list schedule, and asked AC to list zones by storey as in the attached screenshot. Now, if you loo...

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HOW TO insert SKETCHUP into ARCHICAD14

I had a nice skethup model that i wanted to insert into archicad 14. archicad 14 does not have an addon for sketchup. But archicad 14 does have an addon for 3ds file formats. so. 1. i saved my sketchup model in sketchup as a KMZ file. 2. i renamed th...

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Importing 3DS into archicad 15

I have a 3d model in 3ds format. it was originally created in Sketchup. When i open it in other 3d programs like cinema, i can select the individual parts but when i import the model into archicad, archicad automatically converts it to a single OBJEC...

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Buildig a rhomb-facade with archicad facade-tool

Hi! I try to build with the facade-tool of archicad 15 a rhomb facade. enclosed you can find the view of the facade. the necessary thing is, that i can change it's profile and set the infills to glass or fix one's. until now i worked with the trussma...

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