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I wish I can mirror dimension text, when I remove Always Readable option in Dimension Text Settings so I don't need to rotate single text dimension.

We use it in formwork plans.

Hi everyone again,

I've posted a tread but community suggests me to repost it with a referal at only one wish.

So here i am again, I’ve seen a lot of wishes here—some are totally useful, others maybe less so— I’m wondering : aren’t you tired of modeling plinths with beams or finishes with other walls, just because Graphisoft left wall accessories behind? And if you try to take off surfaces or measure lengths from accessories, it’s absolutely impossible to get the right informations. We supposed to work bim right? Wouldn’t it be great to have a finish tool, like the railing tool, but maybe with advanced features—directly linked to walls and their openings?

A tool like that could be more greatful then other new features that are now implemented.

Lets make Archicad great again!

Victor,

It would be useful if element surfaces were linked to design options. This would be especially helpful for apartment block designs, as the Hotlinked units are the same across the various floors, expect the exterior cladding typically changes.

Currently you have to create whole new walls and assign these to different options. This becomes cumbersome when changing windows and doors, and is confusing for less experienced users.

Support for high-end VR headsets from within ArchiCAD's 3D window would be a valuable asset during design.  VR headsets have matured over the past years, including the HTC Vive Pro 2, Meta Quest Pro, Apple Vision Pro, and many others.

Physically based rendering offered with ArchiCAD 28 can present an opportunity to make VR support available in the 3D window.  At first glance that rendering engine appears similar to Twinmotion's, which uses Unreal Engine, and which supports VR headsets.

If the rendering technologies of ArchiCAD and BIMx were to merge, VR headset support can extend to BIMx as well.

The performance of section and elevation views is extremely bad (slow), especially with shadows turned on and ('many') objects used.

It should match the performance of the floorplan display or the 3D window.

Especially the very slow update of these views on layouts kills all submission deadlines.

Different Transparencies in 3D views and sections/elevations based on building materials (or surfaces). Not just on / off.

Especially in non-shaded modes.

The option for transparency override of defined elements.

We have a project where we are retaining a curtain wall but re-painting the frame. 

So the current workflow is to demolish the existing and create a new object. Only problem is we don't what to show the curtain wall as demolished. So we wanted to use a graphic override. This only affects the whole curtain wall and cannot be restricted to the frame elements only. This feature would be very handy on these kind of refurbishment jobs.

Allow segmentation/3d resolution control for all tools including beams, columns, slabs, walls, shells and imports such as IFC. This should be controllable either through selection settings, work environment and/or a registry entry. This will allow more detailed representation of curved elements which is important for any drawing that utilises 3d (such as sections, elevations, 3d documents) as well as for visualisation. Currently morphs allow segmentation to be increased, and some objects allow 3d resolution to be controlled. Current fixed settings can be quite limiting, especially when it comes to finer detail such as complex profile cornices which require input fills to be manually segmented to allow for decent representation.

Here is an example with the low segmentation causing representation issues for benchtop edges:

BIMx is an incredible tool for sharing and exploring 3D models interactively — but it has untapped potential.
Imagine if users could monetize access to BIMx models — turning them into a publishing platform, similar to how apps, books, or online courses are sold today.

Proposal:

Add monetization features to BIMx for models shared through the BIMx cloud or other Graphisoft-hosted services.
Options could include:

• Paid access to certain models (one-time purchase, rental, or subscription).

• Freemium models, where part of the model is free and full access is paid.

• Private client portals with secure, paid entry.

• Integrated payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal, etc.) managed by the model author.

BIMx could be more than a viewer — it could become a full publishing and monetization platform.
Unlock a new dimension for creators, architects, and businesses — and boost the value of the Graphisoft ecosystem at the same time.

When you need the ability to change units not per entire schedule rather than a simple Field, this feature sounds useful.
Currently in AC28 when you need to change the units for your schedules, you need to either change the Calculation or Working units or change the Saved View's Units (not working always) (reference image attached)

Instead of that, should be useful to express or show different units per field on Schemas or Quantity Tables.  This should be done easily by adding features to schemas when you click on a field having settings to adjust units directly on tables.

For Example:
In Latin American countries, we work MEP elements in both Metric and Imperial Units. Actually, you should change the calculation units to do this, instead of that should be helpful to change how the units are shown per field. So you can have length in the Metric System and diameters or section sizes working with Imperial Units (fractional inches which is the most annoying thing)

1. In the following image you can see, there are MEP fields extracting Length and Diameter in Metric System. 
   To do the change for Imperial units. 
   

2. Maybe, by common sense, you would think to save the view in imperial system but that would affect the entire schedule. So this doesn't works. So you dig into the next step.
   

3. The next common thing is to change the Calculation Units, considering this would affect the whole project should be considered as a partial solution. This should change the whole units schedule. The work around for this is to make a property to convert  from fractional inches to meters for the length, and then to a STRING, and that's it but it's frustrating to have this long workaround for something that could be simply done.

   

    

   The images and examples are for references only.
   Feel free to request for adaptation or commenting to add examples.

I want to bring this topic into attention as I feel like the tool has waymore potential (although from what I saw, it is seldom used, at least currently). 

So what it can currently do:
1.  consistently freeze Archicad (at least on my end)
2. Import MS project exploded tasks (.txt) - but I haven't be able to make it open (.mpp) files.
2. Make a video (quick time or AVI).

What I think it can also be improved upon, and the why:
1. Allow for categories and subcategories (for example, on large project, first 20 columns are installed in week 14, next 20 in week 15 and so on). So a general "column" category with collapsible sub-categories would be nice.

2. Have a new field: "delivery" date - so you know when your materials have to be on-site and be able to be notified if this date is established after the start date.

3. Be able to have a timeline slider (or just a date input menu) on both 2D and 3D environment - that would hide anything installed after a certain date. The "show built" feature, currently, it doesn't retrieve anything in my Archicad 27.

4. Be able to generate 3D views from it (example a weekly sequencing graph) - this can be more visually appealing to a construction crew/ client/ etc - on a stand-alone, printable layout.

5. Be able to retrieve the start/finish date in autotext and maybe generate a "timeline" drawing set. some details are only possible to be made with thoughtful sequencing. The timing component is important because some elements can hinder access for the installation of others. 

6. Be more flexible in case of rescheduling - it would be nice to be able in case something gets delayed to readdress the timing of all the impacted elements at once

7. Be visible on third party browser-based hosts (the timeline at point 3) to help with presentation.

A workaround option (although I haven't actually tested it) would be to create a "week" or "day" property in classifications and assign that to all elements and then do a control F to show up to that certain value and update the 3D according to that. But saving individual layouts manually would be quite cumbersome. 

At last, I know these ideas are more on the project management/ construction side and may not be of interest to the design phase - but in my opinion it is something worth checking out.

I find myself wondering many times why there is no possibility to zoom into the object preview window, curtain wall schedule preview or handrail preview tool. It feels like another gimmick that lost track after its inception. Maybe pimping it up just a tad would turn it into something useful... 

Wouldn't it be great if you could actually preview what you are doing in that preview window?

Object preview:

Handrail Preview:

Curtain wall:

Blue tint of 3D window with physically based engine is unesthetic, unusefull and completely unrealistic. Make possible to switch off coloring.

Don't know if it's on the route, but I miss BIMx to be open to another type of files.

Example: Our architecture files come from archicad, but mep files come from revit, and another complex geometry comes from blender/rhino... If there is not an archicad file with all this files together, there is no way to have them all in the BIMx to share with the client...

You can add differents files to Autodesk viewer (really easy). In this case, you only need a link to visualize everywhere, mobile included, without having to download apps. This is important to some clients.

In the roadmap I haven't found anything like this wish, don't know if it's something about it. But I think that BIMx should be the CDE viewer of files hosted in Bimcloud SaaS, like Autodesk solution if Graphisoft like to reach them.

When views are placed on layouts, they are compressed to jpg with heavy compression. Even with views set to higher resolutions, compression is severe - resulting in messy edges and banding.

When saving an image out as a .png from the perspective window directly, it is saved out lossless and this is not an issue.

Views placed on layouts should have further controls for adjusting quality and allowing lossless compression.

I wish that Archicad could import, display and export the USD File format. USD is widely adopted by many industries and offers great flexibility.

Key benefits and features are:

The new experimental physical renderer appears okay for external building 3d views.  But for internal views there is a strong dark blue cast to shadows which makes the physical renderer useless and unusable for interiors.  This is quite a major oversight, please can you resolve this.  Support say I can't change this:  

'as it's controlled by the procedural skydome which the ambient colour cannot be changed. You can request for the control of this on our public wishlist'

Can this feature be developed into a proper feature as it has value.  I really like the current 'sketch-up' type aesthetic of the current 3d view, and the physical renderer is not yet good enough to use as an alternative.  Thank you.

More styles / graphic variants, such as those in Rhino 3D window control (ghosted, x-ray, technical, Artistic, Pen, Arctic, etc.).