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My ArchiCAD wishlist

Sam Karli
Enthusiast
Yeah, it should be done thematically using subtopics, but I don't have time for that. All wishes and bugs are related to my ArchiCAD SE 2016 (=19).

1. Sections should skip planes not just horizontally, but also vertically. It's quite common to have a long section of a pitched roof house that should intersect the roof at its ridge, not somewhere towards the eaves; not to mention other common cases.
2. Sections should be infinite at their end. It's also common that the end of the section shouldn't be where the section sign is on the plans (and also not to mention when there are stores with different areas on differently sized plans: one can't see the section signs cause they're off the paper.)
3. Sections should be broken at angles, like polygons.
4. If sections work well, there's no need for facades.
5. Priority-based intersections work fine for walls and slabs, but obviously not for roof intersections.
6. It can be understood that there is no roof with a slope of 90 degrees, but there should be something that could be correctly intersected with roof. At least correct wall-roof intersections should be a nice to have.
7. The idea of layered structures ("Réteges szerkezetek") is an evolutionary dead end. In reality a house is not built of them, but structures stacked on top of each other. In general similarly, but sometimes with different thicknesses and/or (generally slightly) modified buildups.
-instead there should be a tool that one could draw walls on top of each other fast (for example the walls knowing their position and if You have stacked a layer to one wall, it should be offered to have the same layer on the similar walls but later removable from some of them), the ability of solving holes of walls (should there be a window on a layer, there should be a window on other layers, too). A long shot, I agree.
8. To be able to detect (and intelligently fix) overlapping texts and labels. If I remember well, algorithms for this kind of problem were solved back in the 1970s when the microchips became too complicated to be designed manually. Hip-hop, 40 years passed, and it would be high time for ArchiCAD to incorporate such a function. Missing this feature is the most time consuming of all.
9 3D poligons and/or some kind of element (bent beam, for example) that is able to be curved AND sloped. Missed in many complicated stair railings etc. I think GDL supports the idea.
10 A working magic wand. In many (most) cases magic wand finds wrong silhouettes because of (in ArchiCAD tipical) overlapping lines. For example, the guess of ArchiCAD should be highlighted, and when parts of it were good and others not, an user intervention of selecting wanted segments should modify it.
11 An ability to change the background different colors of plans and facades. It's simply because designing in general is better on black backgrounds (more colors are visible against black, allowing a 'logical' organization of these plans) but facades are nicer on a WYSIWYG white background.
12 To incorporate an AutoCAD-like object snap with different icons for endpoints etc. For a more precise drafting.
13 To incorporate a more AutoCAD-like selection management, for example, having a selection stack to allow 'select previous'. It's also quite time consuming and (unfortunately) common to malclick once and start a 20 element selection over again.
14 Nearly forgotten: layered structures, again. Sloped and changing width structures are among the most common building structures (anything that slopes on top of a horizontal structure) and I think 20 versions of ArchiCAD wasn't enough to devise a _simple_ structure to deal this. Yes, a roof on top of a slab and some SEO makes it, but there should be a simple sollution.
15. A simple way to give a GDL script a poligon. Most scripts are about to do stuff having polygon elements (as base plane or as an extrusion path, a contour or something) and I think tere is no way to simply pick one by the user and give it to the script as an object.
16. To be able intersect two roofs at once. Usually one has to cut the first roof with the second, then the second with the first. Double work in 99% of the time.
17. To add an option to delete points of editing anything fast. From slab contours to unnecessary terrain points.
18. While editing, to enable multiple selection of points and/or segments. For example, to set a height of a contour in a terrain, or to set the angle of more roof contour elements at once. To copy these properties from one element to another.
19 To add the "Windows" key to the available modifier hotkeys and to remove the burnt-in hotkey binding from the F1 key.

I'll add other suggestions later.

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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Sam wrote:
29. To be able to export/copy drawing sheet templates from one plan to another. If I create a sheet template for a project, I think I cannot copy it to another file, for example, to enable it in a template.
That Sheet Template is called Master Layout in ARCHICAD.
In the Help file read about the Organizer and the Project Chooser button in the Navigator Palette. With the Project Choose you can open the Project Structure of another Project and copy-paste Master Layouts from that other Project to your active Project File easily (drag-and-drop in the Organizer.)
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Sam Karli
Enthusiast
22. Will there be ever a working roof cut? The upper cuts are working, but I haven't seen a well done bottom cut, where the roof is above the roof surface. Regardless of cut with simple roof or cut with interconnected roof or SEO.
23. Will there be ever a normal, working door/window? The GDL is able to do everything, but still even for a single family house one has to make unique windows and do the 2D afterwork.
GDL/Python/C++ dev