Wishlist

It would be nice if the keynote tool allowed an option to include the text or the keynote tag. Similar to how the CI Keynote tool worked.

Adding the possibility to show Entrance symbols (triangle's with or without a fill) on floorplans in connection with the doors would be a practical feature in de door selections settings. 

Hi,

I would like to request a change regarding how Archicad handles decimal and thousands separators.

Currently, the decimal separator (dot or comma) and the thousands separator (dot, comma, space, etc.) depend entirely on the operating system regional settings (e.g. Windows Control Panel). This creates significant workflow issues when working on projects in different languages.

In many offices, it is common to work simultaneously on:

• English projects (e.g. 1,234.56)

• European projects (e.g. 1.234,56 or 1 234,56)

At the moment, switching between such projects requires manually changing the Windows regional settings every time we switch projects. This is impractical and error-prone. It also makes it very difficult to ensure that all workstations in an office are configured consistently.

Suggested improvement:

The decimal and thousands separators should be defined at the project level, ideally within:

Options → Project Preferences → Dimensions (for example inside “Dimension Preferences”)

This would allow:

• Different projects to follow different numeric conventions

• Proper consistency in team environments

• Elimination of dependency on OS-level settings

• Reduced risk of documentation errors

Number formatting is part of documentation standards and should belong to the project configuration, not to the operating system.

Thank you for considering this improvement.

Create the possibility that one wall label, slab label and similar label could display the compositions of several walls, depending on the selection of these. The label would enable the order of data output, the ability to select data content, etc. Often, a common wall consists of walls + composite walls, etc. The same is true for roofs. And for display in plans, labels would be needed that would combine the output of content based on the selection of elements.

Working with existing buildings where you want to remove an element inside a curtain wall (for example a door), the only solution now is to have two different files for new and existing situation. It would be practical to use the renovation filter to keep everything in one file.

Problem: Some dialog boxes or pop ups must be closed by clicking either "Ok" or the close window button which, when they pop up in a far corner of the screen can add time and unnecessary effort to the workflow.

Solution: Make all pop-ups and dialog boxes consistent - Enter key means "OK" or whatever the highlighted button is, and the Escape key means "Cancel" or closes the window. This way us CAD workers can keep a smooth workflow.

Little things make a big difference.

Dear Graphisoft Product Team,

I would like to submit a feature request regarding the Zone Tool in ArchiCAD.

Currently, the Zone Tool defines spatial boundaries primarily through wall recognition. While this is functional, it reflects a structural logic rather than an architectural one. In the philosophy of architecture, space is fundamentally defined by the floor — the ground plane is where human life begins, and enclosure follows from it.

From this perspective, I would like to propose the following:

→ Allow the Zone Tool to recognize and generate zone boundaries directly from a Slab's outline.

In practical terms, this would mean:
- Selecting a slab and automatically generating a Zone that inherits its boundary geometry
- Or allowing the Zone to stay linked to the slab boundary, updating dynamically when the slab is edited

Currently, the relationship exists in reverse — slabs can reference zones (via Related Zone fields introduced in AC24) — but zones cannot originate from slabs.

This feature would bring the Zone Tool closer to the true architectural concept of space: a vessel for life, rising from the ground. It would also create a more intuitive BIM workflow where space definition and floor definition are unified from the start.

Thank you for considering this request. ArchiCAD has always been the BIM tool most aligned with architectural thinking, and I believe this enhancement would deepen that quality further.

Best regards

I'd like Bimcloud to be able to create excel reports of:

* all users signed in into projects including the time last active.

* snapshot settings for all projects (pln and teamwork)

/Mats

Wish to wrap the end of wingwalls with the wall lining with a simple check box rather than make a wall-end

its long past due, if dimensions are going to be pinned to a partial structure display, there needs to be a control, either in partial structure display, or preferably in dimension settings, to control which partial structure display the placed dimensions are pinned to.
virtually every one I train on AC runs into this... too many hours spent redoing dimensions to count.

New home screen is good but I'm quite missing an option to quickly purge deleted/missing files.

What I would like is a simple button that will remove all projects that are missing (0 KB file size).
I'm aware that I can select multiple projects with shift or ctrl(cmd) and delete them but surely this would be small but welcomed addition.

When you place labels on elements with 'label selected elements' it's not possible to bring the labels to front immediately when placed. The labels are also not selected immediately after placement so it takes a few steps to put it in front of the element.

Hi,

Please make Editable Hotspot works on Common IE Marker subtype. Currently (AC29) the hotspots are showing up just fine, but there's no "Move Node" on the pet palette. That makes it impossible to change the value of parameters, other than location/rotation angle, via Editable Hotspot.

Thank you very much.

I think the title says it all. Having to switch to floor plan view to stretch a slab while working on a section or elevation seems like a monumental waste of time. Walls, doors and windows can be stretched horizontally or vertically while in section/elevation view, so why not slabs? 3-D cutaways have a suite of slab editing tools, but I find that editing while having to look at the entire outline of an irregularly shaped floor slab to be futile. Turn the model? Move the cut away? Old-fashioned switching between plan and elevation/section to stretch edges is much faster than that, but still too slow and tedious. Am I missing something?

Bottom line: I wish editing slabs in section/elevation view had the same pet pallet with the familiar stretch a side, make a new node, fillet/chamfer etc. as slab editing tools in 3-D view.

PS if anyone knows how to stretch a slab horizontally in section, please let me know how it is done.

To have a Pen 0 for lines to get invisible lines as there is 0 and -1 that can be applied to fills.

Minimal space for statutory clearance around doors is a great feature, however there is a solid line displaying against wall when minimal space is turned on.

This is not generally an issue unless there are two doors next to each other, which then exposes the solid line. I have tested this on a number of basic standard library doors and it occurs in all instances. Graphisoft have indicated the same lineweight issue exists in ArchiCAD 27 & 28.

The issue is due to a limitation of the Minimal Space feature and it occurs because minimal spaces for doors are aligned with the length of the wall.

I wish the display of line weights and their location were more flexible within the Minimal Space feature.

On the attached I have highlighted the section solid line that I would like to remove.

Currently graphic overrides alter the appearance of only items before the marked distant area in cross sections, wrongly implying to the viewer that distant objects are not in the category that graphic overrides are trying to highlight.

Certainly, the case remains that distant objects should always look different/ more distant in section compared to close objects, but the graphic overrides dialog should also thus include an additional set of parameters to control distant objects appearance - or even better a 'smart.' pen intensity fading option based on main override pen colour, so no separate pen needs to be defined.

The current deficit in functionality is very problematic when the graphic override is intended to code items that meet a given criteria by pen colour - because the distant objects will continue to match the appearance of items outside that category, even when they belong within the category. 

The below screenshot is from a section that has a graphic override applied such that all items in Design Option 2 are supposed to display in orange.  But because the doors are in the marked distant area of the section marker, they wrongly display as unchanged (i.e. in grey) - wrongly communicating, for contractual and other purposes, that they are in Design Option 1 

Currently, if a fill is set to display the fill area, the area text properties omits the standard text frame / opaque background offset parameter applying to other ArchiCAD text. 

This prevents graphically important clear space displaying around the area text in the way that it does for all other text, and means that text characters with descenders (such as lower-case g) actually extends through the frame or across the edge of the opaque background.

2D fills using the Fill Category: Cover Fill do not count as actual Cover Fills...