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Ben D · 2025-05-21

We have a problem in our office that seems to occur any time we set up a new machine with archicad. I've seen it with AC27 and 28.We use a font, Century Gothic, as our office standard. This is not a standard macOS font and is installed via font book ...

Ben D · 2025-03-02

There seems to be bug that has appeared recently in the Change Marker (Basic Change Marker 27) object. When the marker text is set to the autotext field , previously the marker would show the Change ID, as it should. Now, it seems to show the drawing...

Ben D · 2025-01-09

there are a number of UI bugs that have shown up since our office upgraded to MacOS 15.2. these issues are present on multiple machines, both intel based and apple silicon. 1) buttons in toolbars, palettes, and the info box that are for dropdowns are...

Ben D · 2022-10-16

When selecting multiple objects in Archicad to reference into grasshopper (ie in GH, the "Select Multiple ..." option), you can only manually select objects in Archicad one by one. cmd/ctrl-A doesnt work. nor does the selection rectangle, or pre-sele...

Ben D · 2025-03-02

here is another example, from a different project. the ChangeID is A11, but the label is showing "04 - WIP1". the drawing revision is 04 and there is no current open transmittal (hence the WIP), but where the "1" is coming from I dont know. This is A...

Ben D · 2025-01-12

Thank you *so* much. that is exactly what it was. So strange that it was only disabled on this machine. That tip should get posted to a sticky topic on bimserver connection troubleshooting...

Ben D · 2025-01-12

Hi Mark, That's great. we have updated all our macs and that has fixed the UI issues. however after upgrading, one of our macs now cant connect to the bimserver. That machine can definitely see the bimserver on the network, and happily log into it vi...

Ben D · 2023-07-12

I did some more testing - this appears to only be a problem with teamwork files. I tested a non teamwork file and it had no issues. I need to try a different teamwork file to see if it all teamwork files, or only some.

Ben D · 2023-07-06

I have this same problem in AC25. havent tested AC 26. When I open up a sun study, the date is always reset to 21/3/2018 nomatter what I set it to previously. the times and other parameters seem to be retained from whatever I last set and seem to wor...

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AC27 Change Marker Bug

AC27 on MacOS Sequoia 15.2 - UI bugs

Grasshopper Archicad Live Connection 25 - Selection Issues

Re: AC27 Change Marker Bug

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Re: AC27 on MacOS Sequoia 15.2 - UI bugs

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Re: Create sun study generating wrong timestamp