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Making a wish - PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

Please make a single topic wish per thread in this Wishes forum. Do not combine multiple wishes in a thread if you hope to have the wish classified and considered for the future roadmap. Make the subject line of your Wish post a concise summary of th...

Resolved! subraction with upward extrusion as default

after 11 years of using archicad, I notice that when I use SEO, 99% of the time I am doing "subtraction with upward extrusion. I would love to have a separate button on the toolbar for this, or at the very least change the default SEO from "subtracti...

More info box customization

Hi there, I think giving us the possibility to customize the info box even more, could bring to a lot of time saving and bigger productivity levels. With this and example would be to give us the possibility, for each element (doors, windows, zones, e...

Darwuhr by Enthusiast
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Lines and other drafting elements classification and scheduling

As I am currently trying to make an internal office standard, I have seen that some elements are not needed to be modeled, but must be taken into account for quantity take-offs. One way to solve this is to give us the possibility to classify and show...

Darwuhr by Enthusiast
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Line Breaks in Schedules Fields

I would like to have the ability to add/use line breaks in lines in any schedule field. The fields should recognize common line break formatting such as \n, or \r\n or key return. Also, the ability to list the associated labels which are attached any...

Trace and Reference to be available in the Profile Editor

Wish: To allow Trace & Reference to be used in the Profile editor window. Then it would be much easier to build profiles that fill in transitions of floors/Walls, Walls to roof and many other uses. Otherwise I have to measure and re-draw a mock 2D im...

Consistency across tools

This is something that is not unique to Archicad. It's inconsistency across tools. For example, the slab tool has several options for "show on stories", where as a column has those same options, with the addition of "All relevant stories". It doesn't...

Show on Stories should always have a custom option

Every 3D item - walls, morphs, meshes , objects, slabs, trees, etc. Should always have a "Show on Stories" option of "Custom." Quick Example, I want an AC condenser and it's screen wall to show on story 1, so that it shows on the first floor mechanic...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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3D Cutplane Sets

I use 3D cutplanes intesively, and I assume, everybody who does 3d modeling to any extent does as well. The wish is a wish to save cutplanes for later use. Yes, they are saved inside of a view. BUT also a lot of other stuff (like the camera position ...

runxel by Virtuoso
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Issue Manager improvements

With ArchiCAD 24 old Mark up tools has been improved and renamed to Issue Manager. With the new tool you can make a new issue, assign elements to it, give it a status, priority, labels etc. It is a great tool to communicate within and outside of the ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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I wish all modeling tools had the same floor plan and section options

Explanation. Everyone have different workflow to build model from scratch to detail. I feel ArchiCAD have too many fixed options to cope with. It takes too time-consuming work to get the model to show as needed on drawings and usually the workarounds...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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