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When attempting to select one from amongst a number of overlapping elements in plan view (such as fills, slabs, roofs, library objects etc), hitting the key while the pointer hovers above them, will normally cycle between and highlight each element ...

Paul King · 2025-10-22

We do most of our layouts using A1 sized sheets, but for day to day use (in-house checking, discussions etc), these are typically printed off in A3 hardcopy size. We have been manually typing the A3 equivalent drawing scales to the A1 drawing scales ...

Paul King · 2025-10-20

I still don't understand why Graphisoft settled on the current Khoros forum software, despite its glaring and long-standing unfitness for purpose. One of its most frustratingly inept 'features' is the way that the contents of a post are just flat out...

Paul King · 2025-10-20

I am trying to show stair gutters in plan views. They show fine in 3D, but in 2D views there is no clue as to their existence. There is an (annoyingly) closed topic already on this issue, which appears to be a known bug, that appears to give false or...

Paul King · 2025-10-17

Because drawings supplied by most manufactures and surveyors depict curves using hundreds of short line segments, we need a way to convert these back into simple curved line segments for much easier & cleaner manipulation / translation To this end, w...

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

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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 ...

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I spent an embarrassing number of hours fiddling with this over the weekend, with help from the free CoPilot/ GPT 5.1 instance living in Windows 11, and after very many false starts have managed to clumsily alter an opensource drawing title maker (ob...

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Yes, I did, and the error seemed to have gone (or at least it never recurred for me). I can certainly understand the reluctance to reinstall Windows 11. For me it was a last resort. The fact that initially AC28 did not trigger these issues for me, th...

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So far so good in AC29, but also in AC28 since reinstalling windows 11 from scratch (just updating graphic drivers & reinstalling ArchiCAD did not help). My testing in AC28 is less robust, as I mostly work in AC29 now. I did just recently finish one ...

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Fix the <Tab> not cycling between overlapping elements bug on Windows machines

Automatically displaying drawing scales for alternative layout sheet sizes

Borderline incompetent forum software design

Stair 'draining' display in plan

Extend linework consolidation function to convert line segments to curves

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