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Ruben V · 2025-08-18

At studiov2, we often develop custom BIM objects to make daily Archicad workflows a bit easier.Together with our client Archipl architects (BE) we created a small but handy label object for 2D detail drawings, meant for Building Materials Fills. Auto...

Ruben V · 2025-03-27

A simple geometric measurement that is often needed (at least in Belgium where I work), is the total length of a door or window sill. This can be easily scripted using GDL (I tested this in the default window & door objects): !Total Sill Length IF gs...

Ruben V · 2025-02-18

I have been creating some custom (2D) objects lately. Some of which were created using the Library Part Maker and some of which were built from scratch using GDL.Although both 'types' have a preview picture defined, when creating a favorite based on ...

Ruben V · 2022-08-23

Hi all, when exporting a simple schedule from Archicad to Excel, Archicad seems to add a blank row at the top of the resulting xlsx. For my workflow, I need to have the column headers at the very top in Excel, so I switched off the Schedules Main hea...

Ruben V · 2022-08-18

Hi all, I have an issue when saving a schedule to an XLS/XLSX file. In one column I have article numbers (e.g. "40.20.10."), but when opening the resulting spreadsheet in Excel (or Numbers) for that matter, the points (".") disappear (e.g. "402010")....

Ruben V · 2025-04-07

As @Jeroen pointed out to me, this wish would also (more or less) solve my issue. But I still believe that integrating this in the standard objects would be a great addition. There are some exceptions/difficulties though, like windows with "sidelight...

Ruben V · 2025-03-27

maybe integrate into Ecodesigner? Similar to the overheating visualization for the glazed surfaces in exterior building skin.

Ruben V · 2025-03-27

Do you mean "including Library Part Parameters"?

Ruben V · 2025-03-12

Did some further testing, and found out I made a noob mistake...While saving (quickly during testing), Archicad reverted to default Translator. This was NOT the one I setup...It works as expected, but needs some tweaking in the scale of Autocad hatch...

Ruben V · 2025-03-12

Interesting topic and the tip from @Podolsky on DWG template is gold, as is the explanation from @Laszlo Nagy . But I am encountering problems implementing this though. When setting up translation table, this works fine UNLESS the option for solid ba...

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Free Archicad Label for annotating Building Materials (Fills) in 2D details

Extra Window/Door properties

Favorites of objects created with Librar Part Maker not showing preview picture

Remove blank line at top of xls-export from schedule

Exporting to Excel changes certain values

Re: Extra Window/Door properties

Re: Daylightfactor calculation according to European norm EN17037

Re: Change/Exchange GDL parameters via Property Values/Excel

Re: DWG export - FILLS to HATCHES conversion

Re: DWG export - FILLS to HATCHES conversion