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Special snaps

Wish to set the amount of time that the special snaps stay visible or preferably to allow the user to reselect a line while modifing a fill, slab or roof with the offset edge tool to show the snaps again. Please note that the snaps only do not reappe...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Background Updating All The Time

Sitting here waiting for a section/elevation to update I thought of an idea worth considering. Could ArchiCAD be made to be placed in an update continuous mode. So while working on a plan another version of ArchiCAD is working in the background to up...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Better control of pasted elements "paste special"

When pasting elements from layers that don't exist, Archicad seems to create new layers for those elements. When pasting elements that are on hidden or locked layers, Archicad gives you the option to either place those elements on the Archicad layer ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Fill alignment in composite structure

There needs to be an easy way to have a fill (i.e. plywood) that has an orientation follow the slope of a roof when used within a composite structure (without adding new fills/changing the angle in fill settings) See attached plywood not parallel wit...

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DanielPon by Graphisoft Alumni
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Link zone tags to the walls, floors, ceilings

I want to do something once and it show up in the appropriate places. I want to put information into the zone tag which is used for the schedules and if I change the material for the north wall I want the material for the north wall to change. So whe...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Methodology of drawing arcs

I frequently use the method of drawing partial circles where you specify two points on the circle and then "pull" out the third point to establish the arc. Almost always when I use this methodology the intention is that the first two points selected ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Simpler mirror. Why not?

It is a long time I think about this very simple point. To perform a Mirror operation, we need to designate a mirroring axis. Well, this can be similar to the cutting line defined for the "SPLIT" command. In this case we have two options: a) One clic...

rocorona by Contributor
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Multiple materials and pens with Profiler Tool

I use the profile tool, to create railings, very often. But instead of creating 2 objetcs for different materials, the profiler tool, could work as the "create trust tool", but instead of modifying the profile of the trust, it could choose another ma...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Depth - based lineweights

Would be nice if there was a setting in the section / elevation window to enhance the lineweight based on 'depth', like classic drafting. That is, the perimeter of your along the roof (depth=infinite) should have a greater lineweight than the detail ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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HDRI backrounds and lighting in the lightworks environment.

HDRI backrounds and lighting in the lightworks environment. I've been bringing my Archi-Cad models into Vue5 just to be able to use site-specific HDRI backgrounds that I make from photos of the site. The difference in image quality / realism is hard ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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