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julienK · 2022-11-13

I implemented in my addon the method shown in the maze generator part 3 tutorial of the API blog. I have several dialogs in my addon so I tried implementing a set of settings and preferences handling for each of my dialogs and palettes.However this d...

julienK · 2022-09-29

When using walls, colums etc in AC the tool stays active after you finish your input. Is it possible to get this behaviour for an addon?I have a palette with an icon that let me place a text element, but i have to reclick the icon for each new text e...

julienK · 2022-09-16

Hi, I Can't figure out how to use fonts with the API.I have a dialog with a font popup, then try to use the selected font to create a text element. element.text.font is of type short, but I can't figure out how to retreive a short value from the font...

julienK · 2022-02-13

Hi, My office decided to switch from mac to pc so I have to recompile all my addons. With a few minor tweaks i got my first one to compile in visual studio but can't load it in Archicad.the extension manager says 'this file is an old addon that can't...

julienK · 2022-01-20

Our office does mainly renovation so we use renovation filters extensively. While they are very useful the workflow associated with it is suboptimal to say the least, mainly for two reasons. 1. For a project which requires replacement of the existing...

julienK · 2023-06-08

Just pull up the wikipedia page for transformation matrix , copy/paste, profit.

julienK · 2023-06-08

no, it will just rotate the shape as is. One way to achieve this would be to use XFORM

julienK · 2023-06-06

Groups needs to be enabled for this function to work. From your screenshot only one column is selected.

julienK · 2023-06-02

Yes, every field in a dialog has to be declared in the grc file. Look at DG_Test example in the API files. Some articles explain this in the documentation.

julienK · 2023-06-02

The entry points are explained in the 'anatomy of an addon' paragraph in the link I posted. An archicad addon doesn't require a Main.cpp to work it can be named whatever you want. The way you interact with archicad is either through menus or dialogs,...

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