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Because site meshes are typically the most complex entities in an ArchiCAD project, by a very large margin (unless you live in Holland of course), SEO operations on them are quite expensive computationally, and successive operations rapidly slow rege...

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When selecting an object that has been involved in SEO, there is a small useful dynamic feedback icon allowing the user to trace exactly what interactions the object is involved in. Because interaction by means other than SEO can also cause unexpecte...

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Currently, when creating contours in a mesh from the linework on a surveyor's supplied dwg file, under certain circumstances space clicking the surveyor's line can create duplicate nodes or entire duplicate contours, that co-exist exactly in 3D space...

Paul King · 2025-05-12

Perhaps I am losing my mind, but I seem to recall a time in which ArchiCAD could handle 3D display of things like blockwork mortar joints via an alpha channel within a surface texture, allowing the remaining bricks or blocks to have colour adjustable...

Paul King · 2025-05-06

I am finding it impossible to change the material of existing profiled columns - the material is missing and the parameter is greyed out in the column editing dialog. For context, this project was imported into AC 28. I am not privy to its previous h...

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And of course AI Visualizer also adds no value compared with free alternatives (including Copilot), where you can already just submit a basic 3D image of the model as an image prompt & get a result that is as good or better, without tying up your mac...

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Hi Mohamed An example prompt is "How do I get the materials priority of placed elements to cut my site mesh?" The reply (pasted below) is wrong, and positively misleading, because of course materials priority in ArchiCAD, after 40 years of developmen...

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I had the same issue under AC28. Hate to admit it, but what fixed this (or significantly improved it) in the end was reinstalling Windows 11. Updating all drivers, updating Windows 11 to the latest release version and uninstalling and reinstalling la...

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Don't bother with AI assistant - it is not even as good at answering ArchiCAD-specific questions as a general purpose AI like Copilot. AI assistant, despite a couple of years development, is still wrong more often than it is right, giving clear evide...

Paul King · 2025-08-26

If we have a dongle that is currently updated to AC28 (sitting in a drawer), and we also now have a Studio subscription, will the dongle be updated at no extra cost when AC29 is released? Or do we need to wait for the subscription to expire and call ...

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Materials and intersection priority with meshes

Show materials & intersection priority sources of alteration to selected object in dynamic feedback

Mesh Tool: prevent coincident nodes from being created when space clicking contour lines

Bump mapping in surfaces in OpenGL

Profiled column material greyed out

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