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Changing material of one wall/slab side?

Hi everyone, I am not sure why it is happening, but whenever I adjust just one material on a wall or slab side (such as the bottom of a slab, or reference side on a wall) each side will revert to the same material when I view it in 3D view. Strangely...

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BIM=Revit??

I went to a BIM seminar last week organised by the Australian Institute of Architects sponsored by Autodesk so very Revit centric. Not a bad presentation but aimed more at what BIM adoption means to your firm e.g. if the Client wants a full BIM deliv...

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Fill problem

Hi to all! I'm very i will work A 6.5 - 7 - 8 and could build simple 2d hatch. And now in A12 i can't !!!! When, par example i built in 2D one rectangle and fill with any vectorial fill pattern with simple 2d design option only appears solid fill no ...

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Serpentine and Inclined handrail

Sorry for not doing and extensive search... But I am trying to wrap my head around whether the SHELL Tool can extrude a profile along a serpentine path with the elevation changing along the path... In other words a simple handrail for serpentine stai...

HOW TO ADD A JPG MAP to a solid slab or surface Archicad

Guys. I would really like to know how i can take a picture from google earth. plant it ontop of a solid slab or toposurface, so that it is visable in 3d. Also how can i set the map, so the slab and the map are to correct scale ? Thanks. Ian

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IMPORT OBJECT CANT FIND MATERIAL

i have a object created from cinema4d. i have a folder with the model and the textures. When i import the cinema file into archicad 15, its takes some time but shows on plan. BUT when i go to perspective, archicad tells me that all the materials cann...

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Freeform walls with curved tops and varying heights.

I teach an Architecture class at our high school and the boys are needing to design an entrance to a new housing estate. They want to create a free form curved wall, possibly shaped like a wave. The wall would be used to put the name of the estate on...

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scaling 2D objects

I have a buch of 2D objects pasted into a layout - lines, hatches, text, arcs. they are a series of groups that I have grouped into one. I'd like to resize the who thing, but Archicad seems intent on not letting me do so. Any help would be much appre...

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Where are my coordinates?

Hi, Usually, when I f.eks build a wall, a box with coordinates appeares automatically. So lets say I want to build a 2000mm long wall with the wall tool. I can then click to mark where the wall will start, point out the direction and just type the nu...

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