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Ignacio Azpiazu

Freak incident: Helvetica texts in Master Layouts, layouts, model space, GDL scripts, are not publishing into PDFs (checked out in Preview and Acrobat Reader; also just in case imported into AC and exploded) even though they show fine on screen. Helvetica is a system font. A...

Ignacio Azpiazu · 2026-03-03

I have a Full license on a hardware key, “Archicad 29 US American Commercial NET License”. I want to join into a project on someone else's BCaaS BIMcloud. A couple of years ago I could do that with the server address –now I am getting flooded with emails and papers and knowl...

Ignacio Azpiazu · 2026-02-23

New element SEO subtractions on Existing elements are still showing on Existing/Pre-construction RFO. The Existing/Pre-construction RFO is fine, it is set to hide New elements. The problem is happening regardless of the layers the New elements are in –be it the hidden “SEO o...

Ignacio Azpiazu · 2025-12-16

On a 16-in 2021 MBP I am using with an iPad Pro as 2nd display, I noticed I have been using the display set to 1728 x 1117 (Default) instead of 2056 x 1329, which gives some nice larger real estate. I don't know how this happened, how I chose or not to use it this way for so...

Ignacio Azpiazu · 2025-12-10

I used this a lot before on AC USA, not sure if on 27. I am looking for the settings as in the left (from https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Stair-Basics-Editing-and-Refining-the-Floor-Plan-Representation/ta-p/303689) and I get the options on the right. That i...

Ignacio Azpiazu

You are only changing the layer of the elements belonging to the active tool, or to the type of the first element selected in the set. For changing layer (and/or a couple more settings) of several elements of diverse types (walls, beams, objects, text, etc.) use “Edit Select...

Ignacio Azpiazu

The whole SPA version has always been a disaster, even in menus and commands –as if terms had been translated by someone on a spreadsheet using a dictionary, without the slightest understanding of context, architecture, program and command. Issue repeatedly brought up over t...

Ignacio Azpiazu

related to previous: the trace reference *is printable* –because it is associated to the viewpoint and not the view, *from the viewpoint only*

Ignacio Azpiazu

It is complicated. The reference is typically used during drafting/modeling work, not necessarily from a predefined view –with layers turned on and off, and other temporary custom settings. And updating the view each time for changes in the reference only (a single viewpoint...

Ignacio Azpiazu · 2026-05-10

If you want to use the consultant IFC for coordination (because you will absolutely not want to use it as a a source for architectural model elements), you will hotlink the consultant IFC into the coordination file. You don't want to merge it, or be able to edit the elements...

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Helvetica texts in Master Layout and GDL objects suddenly not showing on published PDFs

Joining some BCaaS using my own Full license

SEO subtraction of New elements on Existing elements are showing on Existing RFO

Screen resolution in MacBook Pro, advice requested

Stair UP-DN text in AC27 USA, can't find show on relevant/above setting

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