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Karl Ottenstein · 2025-04-08

Another update, another disconnect between announcement and availability on the downloads page vs the in-product update feature not finding the update. 28.1.1 announced here: https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Graphisoft-Insights/Archicad-28-1-1-Hot...

Karl Ottenstein · 2025-03-13

The latest 28.1 (4001) update somehow corrupted my AC 28 installation, so I had to delete it and am reinstalling from the 3001 base install and will then apply the 28.1 update to that. The new automatic update download is confusing since it doesn't p...

Karl Ottenstein · 2024-10-25

Customers need a means of accessing and converting old Archicad projects other than keeping an old computer running an old OS sitting around "just in case". As is usual, Graphisoft only provides compatibility updates to the current and previous relea...

Karl Ottenstein · 2024-05-17

Wish: any valid license should be able to run any version of Archicad localized to any country world-wide. Professional/Professional, EDU/EDU, etc. It is a historic artifact that Archicad is hard-coded in each global language for which it is availabl...

Karl Ottenstein · 2024-05-02

https://graphisoft.com/us/events/scanning-with-canvas-webinar "Join Chris Clark (BIM6x) and the Canvas team for a webinar to learn more about using 3D scanning to create native, design-ready, and editable Archicad as-builts so that you can focus on r...

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Exactly. And Graphisoft realized this more than 20 years ago when they had the "Constructor" line of 4d/5d software (later sold) which had to re-model those elements. It would be nice to see fine-grained component/skin/etc control in Archicad itself....

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The precise details and FAQ answers just keep changing, which is disappointing to see (to say the least)."Originally" when the conversion process was described in posts and FAQ, people on SSA would be able to continue upgrading through Archicad 30. B...

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Hi everyone - As this thread has gotten deeply into GDL coding, just a reminder that there is a separate area of this Community for coding GDL objects, which covers almost all of the replies to this thread:https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/GDL/bd-p...

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Do you actually need the map to be snappable vector linework/DWG? Consider using Illustrator etc to import the DWG, edit, and convert it to a high resolution image (as large as you will ever print… at 300 dpi) and use the image instead of the linewor...

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28.1.1 not offered by in-product Check for Updates

Where does AC 28 save automatically downloaded update files?

Graphisoft must provide Mac users with a tool for accessing old projects

Valid license should be able to run ANY global version of Archicad

May 8 Webinar: Scanning with Canvas (IOS) to create As-Builts

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