Wishlist

Sometimes it is helpful to have a window undocked for use on a separate screen. It would be helpful to have the ability to mount duplicate palettes in this window, almost as if it were a separate instance of archicad. The big issue is the "Info Box" palette which stays on the main window but reflects the selected elements on either the docked or undocked windows meaning I could have an element selected on one monitor but I have to swing back the info box on the other monitor to edit it's settings.

Anyone else?

I wish it was possible to show the following symbolic lines for drawers in elevation for Kitchen Cabinets (Base Cabinet Block):

• lines to indicate drawer function (diagonal line or vee)
• lines to indicate carcass location behind the front panel (including side panels, and shelves)

It seems the function was added to show symbolic lines for drawers in plan only?

The ability to generate wall schedules that itemise wall types used within the project is a great tool for detailing wall types for construction.

However, the limitations of the schedule outweigh the benefit on using it (for example, there is no option in the scheme settings to list each composite layer and it's thickness). Instead, the recommended "work around" is to manually model each wall within the project and label it using using the Skin List Label.

I wish that the wall schedule could:

1. provide a 3D Plan View (rather than a "2D Plan View") that allows materials within the composite wall to be tagged with an active label, and

2. list the composite layers (like the Skin List Label does).

Example of wall schedule with desired labelled wall material shown in red:

Example of Skin List Label used for the same wall as a "work around" after manually modelling each wall in the project:

a way to batch convert 2D fills to 3D objects (like slabs, terrain or morphs) to make the creation of the surrounding area quick and easy.

ways this could be done;

multiple elements to be converted through favorites

batch selection with magic wand tool

extrude fills to morphs

There should be an option to add finish on all the sides of a monolithic stair structure, not only in treads and risers. Many times we design concrete stairs that are freestanding and therefore covered with another material, eg. wood. 

When working across different platforms (Windows and macOS), especially in environments with local networks or VPN connections, file path management becomes a major challenge. Automatic relative paths often do not work reliably, and for hotlinks this functionality is not available at all.

Providing the ability to manually edit file paths — with a clear option to explicitly define and store them as relative paths — would greatly improve cross-platform collaboration, team workflows, and project portability. This would be a significant quality-of-life improvement for many users working in mixed or remote network environments, myself included.

Re-numbering door numbers, window number and furniture in large developments.

With large buildings doors and windows numbers that require renumbering to be sensible can be time consuming at early Tender stages, as can be furniture? Can this be done by selecting the doors and numbers, drawing a path start and finish on screen and adding a starting character such as 'W', 'D', 'W-100' or 'W-00..' user specific. can this be another tool? Door numbers are usually sensibly numbered clockwise or anticlockwise from a start point on the drawing.

Have option to import XML files from BIMCloud SAAS when importing / exporting favourites, schemes etc

When bringing in content from other files we need to rename layers with a preceding standard layer code - would be useful to be able to select layers and add a text string to the front of the layer name eg G_OS_

Right now, we use curtain walls to draw our masonry walls. This way, we can edit the 8" segments in elevation to "cut" holes for a secondary curtain wall door or window that fits inside of the hole. This is extremely tedious and is not easily editable.

Often when you start a project you don't know what elevation (level) you will want project zero to be at.  So you build your mesh to AHD & set your stories at what may be close to their final height, but the time often comes where you need to adjust the stories relative to the mesh.  To keep the project zero story at zero you need to raise or lower the mesh.  This however throws out the heights of the mesh relative to AHD.  It would be great if you could just drag the stories up or down relative to the mesh, without losing project zero.

When working with dimensions at scales such as 1:50 or smaller, space efficiency in annotation is critical. Nowdays my archicad only allows the suppression of the leading zero together with the comma, resulting in values like 20 instead of ,20. This makes dimensions harder to read!!

In addition, there is no option to choose between dot (.) and comma (,) as the decimal separator. This limitation creates inconsistencies between projects, as many workflows (and other BIM software) already support this flexibility

I kindly ask that, as soon as possible (and if feasible), these features be added to Archicad in future releases:
1. Add an option to suppress only the leading zero, while keeping the decimal separator visible (,10 or .10). 

2. Allow users to select either comma or dot as the decimal separator directly in the Dimension Settings.

3. Make this preference storable in templates, ensuring consistency across teams and projects.

When exporting to DWG/DXF solid fills with transparency, these become 100% hatches of the original option. There should be a translation option in order to keep their transparency in Autocad. 

The textures in archicad are applied based on a global/world reference point.

One example where this option would come in very handy would be:

When working with curtain walls independent panels can be created by either using distinct classes in combination with independent textures or building materials or by creating custom panel objects. Neither of these options however offer the possibility to link an "object" reference point for the applied textures.

We do have the ability to adjust the origin of textures, but apparently not when working on subelements, and even if this option would be available it would be useless in the above mentioned situation.

Having a surface, building material and where possible geometry based tick box overwriting the default reference point for texture would be great.

Similar to the new uniform insulation button add a uniform route specification as mock up below.

Currently, you need to change the branch, segment, elbow and transition on three separate tabs and fields.

Hi all,

This wish is for more customisation options for Opening Arrows, such as length and individual offset. Currently, the only customisation we have for Opening Arrows is the pen. This occasionally results in this petite 2mm arrow disappearing amongst other lines. Maybe that is why they are off by default in AC28...

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Change-the-offset-of-the-arrow-in-2D-view-of-s...

Ling.

There are several requests for composite functionality with the mesh tool but I would add to this.  It is typical for soils exploration to notate the type and depth of each soil type found.  I would love to see the ability to add points to a mesh with each layer of the composite to be adjustable to match the soils exploration reports.  Creating a general mesh of the surface with each of the layers of the composite flexing to match the test points.  The current composite would be a bit limiting as it assumes a constant composite layer thickness.  By adding control points as needed with depth of each strata type we could simulate the ground conditions from the soils exploration reports.  Who knows what further creative uses could be found.

Scheduler for automatic publishing from Archicad. Both TW and Solo.

Purpose is to run autonomus publishing during night, week-ends etc. Preferably from BIMcloud.

Workflow: Choose Publisher set/sets and set start time of publish. Progress report sent to email when publishing is done or failed.