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I have a project where two adjacent multistory buildings are almost identical, that would make perfect sense as two placed instances of the same module, but that need door and window numbers that are unique to each building. The building design will continue evolving, and it...

Paul King

Please allow composite skins to heal though empty doorways and other openings, and at wall ends - as an intrinsic part of the wall, not requiring messy workarounds and wall end objects. The workarounds all fail in one way or another, with unwanted outcomes either in 2D or 3D...

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

Thanks Laszlo - that got me quite excited for a moment, until I found that this option seems to be missing in CI Tools door and window markers (whole project uses CI Tools doors and windows)

Paul King

Hi Laszlo. You seem to be referring to the single line just showing end of framing core, not the double lines and fills that outer skins need to show when wrapped across to close off the end of the core through an empty doorway or opening

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.

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Door and window number need to differ between otherwise identical module instances

Clean up composite skins through empty openings and wall ends without messy workarounds

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

Re: Door and window number need to differ between otherwise identical module instances

Re: Clean up composite skins through empty openings and wall ends without messy workarounds

Re: Provide consistent controls for fill area text backgrounds

Re: Dedicated DTM Tool: Professional Site Modeling & Earthworks

Re: Design options with graphic overrides