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Currently, anyone wanting to save a named layer combination corresponding to the layers currently displaying needs to go through a trial and error process to manually identify and locate all the currently showing layers in the layer settings dialog, ...

Paul King · 2024-03-18

I am almost certainly missing something obvious, but cannot seem to get placed slabs to automatically appear with cover fill pencolour reflecting the used surface cover fill foreground pencolour. I am essentially trying to create some 3D diagrams whe...

Paul King · 2024-02-12

I have used scatters in the Octane plugin for ArchiCAD (which appear only in the rendered result) , and via the vegetation brush in Twinmotion, but am quite keen to scatter a forest on a large undulating terrain directly within ArchiCAD, so that the ...

Paul King · 2024-02-09

Looking for a way to overcome the design defects/limitations in ArchiCAD's handling of materials / intersections priority in relation to meshes. In particular I need a way to have some translucent slabs and roof elements cut a terrain mesh when switc...

Paul King · 2024-01-18

Under Windows 11, using a pretty high end Workstation with high end GPU with lots of gRAM, with even small residential scale projects, ArchiCAD 27 is still an absolute dog to use performance wise compared with earlier versions. I could perhaps unders...

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Very cool! I had assumed the free version was only free for a month long trial period, so good to know.

Paul King

That addon looks cool - as well as a few other tools by the same author. That said, I think this is something that should be inherent in ArchiCAD rather than requiring a separate subscription & update cost with every ArchiCAD version.

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@Barry Kelly wrote: I don't understand your 'trial and error' process. If you have your custom layers turned on as you want, just go to the Layer Settings and create a 'New' layer combination. Job done. The layers you want on are already turned on - ...

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Thanks Eduardo - seems like a clever approach. In this case I ended up doing things the manual way, as I was spending longer trying to solve the problem than I would save

Paul King · 2024-03-18

Thanks Cuba. That was my fear. I did consider 3D document as a workaround (I had already set up the orthographic 3D views), but unfortunately this needs to be live editable. Sound like I will just need to manually colour the slabs in plan to match 3D...

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Allow defining or redefining a named layer combination directly from the layers currently displaying

Can't get slabs to display cover fills with pen colour as defined for surface foreground fill

Scatter random trees and plants across undulating terrain

Materials and intersection priority with meshes

Is Graphisoft actively doing anything about the shocking graphics & input lag of ArchiCAD 27?

Re: Allow defining or redefining a named layer combination directly from the layers currently displa

Re: Allow defining or redefining a named layer combination directly from the layers currently displa

Re: Allow defining or redefining a named layer combination directly from the layers currently displa

Re: Can't get slabs to display cover fills with pen colour as defined for surface foreground fill

Re: Can't get slabs to display cover fills with pen colour as defined for surface foreground fill