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Paul King · 2026-03-11

Oddly enough, people who use ArchiCAD tend to also use various graphic design applications too. As a result, there are typically hundreds of accumulated installed fonts on a user's system. Currently the ArchiCAD font selection drop down within GDL objects is thus excruciatin...

Paul King · 2026-02-16

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 dista...

Paul King · 2026-02-16

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 ...

Paul King · 2026-02-11

I am documenting a project that is heavily phased contractually and for compliance/approval purposes, such that every 3D based view, and even each 2D detail needs a way to visibly attribute all notes and objects to one phase vs another. Elements that will form part of a futu...

Paul King · 2025-12-31

Just had an interesting response to the above question from Chat GPT5.1: Below is a ranked list of the strongest drivers, from most structural to most fixable. 1. Shift Toward Subscription / SSA Revenue MaximisationRelative strength: Very highConfidence: HighThis is the bigg...

Paul King · 2026-02-17

Thanks Barry - that is a good workaround, though I would argue should not be necessary - I think the fill area text dialog should be consistent with all other text dialogs

Paul King · 2026-02-14

Also, a need to depict and document vertical retained terrain surfaces and concave surfaces (without SEO) Also terrain skins, so that soil and fill layers are picked up in sections.

Paul King · 2026-02-11

Thank you! I completely missed that. I will play around with it, but hopefully can now make it work.

Paul King · 2025-12-09

Hi @Erwin Edel The context for that GDL is with individual placed drawing title objects within the layout - not the overall layout title block

Paul King · 2025-12-08

Thanks @AllenP A good tip with detecting the source layout size - one less user input required. User would still need to select a preferred alternative output/printing sheet size manually, since the same layout is printed to different page sizes for different purposes (A3 be...

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Fix dropdown selectors in dialogs

Allow marked distant areas linework in cross sections to respect graphic overrides

Provide consistent controls for fill area text backgrounds

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