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The Morph tool is extremely flexible in 3D modeling, but currently lacks quantitative access to its edge data.

If it were possible to access the length of edges directly, Morphs could become not only geometric objects but also data-aware 3D polylines, opening up a broad range of new applications.

What is needed:

• The ability to list and extract individual edge lengths from a Morph,

• These lengths should be available in Schedules (as a new field),

• Ideally, users could tag, group, or name edges to make their purpose traceable.

Why this matters:

This small addition would enable powerful workflows, such as:

• 3D path quantification: define and measure spatial routes (e.g., for circulation, fire escape distances, or pedestrian flows),

• Crack and damage mapping: trace fissures or surface lines on buildings and compile length and type into schedules,

• 3D annotation and modeling: use Morphs as smart sketching tools with measurable geometry, usable in documentation and data reporting.

Why it’s valuable:

• Unlocks a hidden potential of a tool that’s already geometrically powerful.

• Avoids creating workaround geometry just to measure paths in 3D.

• Blends design freedom with data accessibility—true BIM flexibility with very little implementation effort.

It is time to stop using generic "Slabs" and "Beams" to model structural foundations. Archicad needs a dedicated Foundation Toolset for better IFC classification and geometric accuracy.

Key Requirements:

• Dedicated Entities: Specific tools for Isolated Footings, Strip Foundations, Piles, and Grade Beams.

• Dynamic Interaction: Foundations should interact with the DTM (Terrain) to automatically generate excavation pits or recognize the soil level.

• Technical Parameters: Native fields for reinforcement ratios, soil bearing capacity, and "lean concrete" (blinding) offsets.

• Clean Geometry: Better intersections between piles and caps without complex SEO (Solid Element Operations).

Why it matters: This would streamline the structural coordination and ensure that IFC exports are correctly mapped from the start without manual renaming.

Hi Archicad,

It would be a nice and simple feature to put a contour line on every texture, which can be turned on and off. 
So for example i want a wooden surface of chipboard to be 1220 x 2440 and put a contour line around it, so in my view I can see the different plates. 

Same for tiles or bricks. Could this be possible? 

Thanks in advance.

With kind regards, 

Stan van Dijck

It'd be great to expand the Global Variables for Fill parameters to include surfaces. We have 'FILL_BMAT_NAME' & 'FILL_BMAT'. We need 'FILL_SURF' and 'FILL_SURF_NAME'.

See https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/GDL/Surface-name-of-fill/td-p/656515 

When dimensioning sections for formwork drawings, dimensions for wallholes do not associate and any change in doors / windows will not update dimensions, which leads to errors if sections are not monitored constantly. For a small three apartment building I have more than 20 sections per floor and it's really hard to keep up with all the dimensions that are not updating automatically.

This is a section that goes through a garage door. The 12,5 cm dimension and -0,625 elevation dimension will not update if I change height of the door. Wallholes should have automatic hotspots - when you place dimensions, it should be a circle on the hotspot, not a square.

Sunshades should be hidden in some views, this should be achived by mvo like other window components, for consistency and efficiency 

Hello,

I would love to have the ability to link image fills with surface cover fill backgrounds. The idea is that when different surfaces are assigned to slabs, the corresponding floor plan would automatically display the matching patterns. Archicad, could we make this dream a reality?

I would like to export all find & select criteria sets in 1 file so I can import it easily to another project.

Now you can only do it with 1 criteria set at a time.

Hello,

It would be great to have the Possibility to list the Layout position within a Subset in a Project-Index of Layouts.
In this way It's possible to create a very simple table of contents for presentations without having to use the Layout ID for it.

It's already possible to get this information with an Autotext, hopefully it's not that difficult to get it into a list.

It would be also important to have the option "merge identical items" to avoid having Schedules with many pages listed as many times as pages it contains.

Thanks in advance.

May we please have an option for cross hatch in set down space for parking bays, walkway zone for the rear of parking bays and to the back of disabled parking bays a set down zone? This would be useful in 3D and site plans.

Operating system used: Windows

Current State

Under Project preferences, there are settings for zone calculation. These should be expanded, or, as in my proposition below, completely re-imagined.

These are current settings. Some countries have legislation that require different and more nuanced settings.

Deficencies of the Current State

This is an excerpt of one part of zone calculation rules in my country:

You don't have to understand much of Croatian (visina = height) to realize that there are many rules for zone heights, not just two. Zone categories require different rules.

Proposal to Expand Functionality

My proposal is to link zone calculation rules to zone categories and allow users to add more rules according to their needs. Rules should be editable in the same way that graphic override rules are editable. This would enable users to create rules based on the legislation or based on investor's requirements, taking custom properties into account. For instance, we currently have to manually add reductions for outdoor spaces (balconies, loggias, terraces, etc.) and this process can lead to errors. Applying custom rules would enable proper zone scheduling based on specific needs.

It would be great to have this option.

Sometimes it's necessary to fix the size of the Labels without taking the scale in consideration.

Thanks

@GabrielGG  

When doing a Reflected Ceiling Plan (RCP), I usually need to show the finish of the beams as well as the slabs or the ceilings. Even would like to show the colour or different fills if they have different finishes.

Also sometimes you have different heights for them and you struggle to have a common cutting plane for the whole floor to show all objects with the fill and still cutting the walls at the correct height.

Even when we use the beam tool for other things it is useful to have the flexibility

Being able to set up Publisher sets based on layout criteria - eg publisher set based on last transmittal or current transmittal 

Problem:

When a window is set with tolerance settings, it is made visible in floor plans. However, in 3d and elevation views the window frame is enlarged. This causes a distorted view of the window. 

Solution:

Archicad should have the possibility to make the tolerance space visible in 3d and elevations, or set a building material for this tolererance space. Or include a visibility option in the model view options.

It would be nice to position component dimensions on top of each other.

A Tab support is needed. 
This would be clearer and more graphically appealing.

Here's an example of what I mean:

I already made this proposal during the Technology Preview. Perhaps this wish will be implemented in the next Archicad version.

As we have tool that automatically add dimensions for floor plan, we need this automatic dimensioning tool for actual interior elevations.

We spend hours  adding dimensions to millwork (cabinetry, wall details, etc.) and we constantly have to zoom in to find out snap points to do that. 

Because drawings supplied by most manufactures and surveyors depict curves using hundreds of short line segments, we need a way to convert these back into simple curved line segments for much easier & cleaner manipulation / translation 

To this end, we need a curve-fitting algorithm that can detect and convert line segments back into original circles & ellipses wherever applicable, or otherwise to polylines with user defined-segmentation/resolution (essential for managing mesh contour complexity), or to smooth splines

Small gaps between line segments (e.g. from export translation rounding errors) that would prevent successful space clicking of lines (for area fills etc) should be detected and filled by extending curved or straight-line segments, depending on the best fit   

For example, manufacturers imported detailed window profiles currently often cannot be space-clicked successfully due to tiny misalignments between imported line segments.  Space clicking is needed if you want to replace lines with fills.  And segmentation removal is necessary to find the origins of imported circles - etc