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Polar Bear

Hello, I was tol;d by some graphisoft guy to redo my template entirely, my old template had too much old library, a mess. Now i have been at it (an absolute nightmare compare to Revit!) But how to transfer stuff from the project map of old template to project map of new temp...

Polar Bear · 2026-03-31

Dear Archicad lovers, Why on earth is library management so complicated. I just came from a year of handling a super large project in Revit. Today back in Archicad, and god!!! it is incomprehensible! unless you are native to archicad since ages! and about to drop it all. Tir...

Polar Bear · 2025-02-03

Imagine, you have to constantly return to your entrance lobby in order to access any any any other spaces of your house ??? This is what Archicad forces you to do. Unlike Revit, where , example, you can modify material, apparence etc, without having to exit the wall setting;...

Polar Bear · 2023-07-11

Hello, When will we see decent 3d image/ high definition? Currently we need to render to have some decent 3D image or use 3D document etc... In revit, within 15 seconds, you can have a page with a 3D representation, along plan and section and the 3D will be high definition, ...

Polar Bear · 2023-07-10

Hello, I would like to have some tricks on working with display order. It does not get saved with redefine with window setting.... In a lots of documentation i am doing, very often, one thing or the other comes on the wrong display order, and leads to site confusion. It brin...

Polar Bear · 2026-04-06

Thank you so much! I just want to remove it. Flush it! Any quick way ? Purge? I have no time searching and loading other library stuff. I just want a clean new file! Thank you!

Polar Bear · 2026-04-03

Thanks all a lot for your responses! I am soon giving up! Too many archaic functions! Too little progress on making the software intuitive. At the end of the day, my time designing and handling project is far more precious than handling the software complexity (layers, libra...

Polar Bear · 2026-04-01

Thank you for replying. The problem is simply for me to understand the structure of library. For example, I see some missing parts, and the file is a new file! Why are there missing items and how to delete it? there seems to be no simple way to manage this. I was sold Archic...

Polar Bear · 2023-07-11

Actually, i have shown the 3d image just to show how simple is the building, despite which, the display order is a real headache (speaking from a four year experience with archicad) and a real source of problem for me. Sometimes (often) after printing for site, i realise som...

Polar Bear · 2023-06-06

Hello, The saved view, keep on changing, and saving as current view doesn't work. I think i figured out by some circus of deleting old view and creating a new one. Counterintuitive and laborious Thanks a lot!

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Challenges with library management

Forced to come back to the entrance lobby to go anywhere!

3D image quality

Display order

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