Wishes
Post your wishes about Graphisoft products: Archicad, BIMx, BIMcloud, and DDScad.

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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...

Please give us back the ability to save .EPS files

The only thing I miss about PlotMaker is the ability to save-out .EPS (encapsulated postscript) files. .EPS is a scale-able raster image format that most image-editing companies use as a "standard" format. Our marketing department requires .EPS forma...

wish > trim roof to wall recognise voids along pivot line

I wish that the Trim Wall to Roof would recognise voids or 'notches' roof plane, at least along the pivot line. I had to do a roof with three shed dormers along the line of the roof where the exterior wall at the dormers was normal 8' plate height bu...

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hide windows and doors in 3D simplified massing model.

The ability to hide windows and doors in 3D so as to have a simplified massing model. This could be either done through set model view options, or through the View>Elements In 3D>Filter Elements dialog (currently that option leaves an empty opening i...

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Camera Above Objects

As I'm moving through a building doing a walk-thru, it would be nice to have a camera option that would let me stay a specific distance above any object that the camera is currently over. That way if I come to a stair tread, the camera will automatic...

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SAVE Plotter Dialogue Settings vs returning to default

Something that would be really nice is if Graphisoft would have a button on the Plot Layout Dialogue box to SAVE SETTINGS!!!!! Yes they're saved once you remember to change them on the active project (i.e. gray scale, margin of layout, etc) however a...

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Screening on layouts.

With AC11 we get Trace Reference - a very useful feature i wouldn't want to live without. Trace reference allows you to screen either the active or underlying drawing. Often I'll screen the underlying drawing and make it a single color, gray for exam...

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Splitting workspace for windows and palettes

I'm working with two monitors and I have multiple windows (floor plan, sections, 3D window) and palettes open simultaneously and every time starting archicad there is a need to rearrange their position and size once again. What I would suggest is a l...

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Dimensions shown on multiple stories

There should be a way to make dimension strings visible on multiple stories (similar to the Grid Element). Copying dimensions renders them static, and having to dimension the same complex structural grid over the course of 30 stories seems ridiculous...

Calculations/Mathematical Expressions in Coordinates Box etc

One wish in our Office is to be able to enter mathematical expressions in the coordinates box or in the Tacker. For example 225*5.5-10 to draw a wall the length of 5 UK bricks minus the mortar joint. Allplan has this feature and using ArchiCAD we mis...

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overall ac11 wishlist

I made a general and overall wishlist. It has ~20 subjects, so I didn't want to insert 20 different topics in this forum. I used freemind to do my wishlist. Here it is: Archicad 11 whishlist by sityu

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