Collaboration with other software
About model and data exchange with 3rd party solutions: Revit, Solibri, dRofus, Bluebeam, structural analysis solutions, and IFC, BCF and DXF/DWG-based exchange, etc.

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Structural & MEP Workflow & File Size & Speed

I'm working on Very Large residential projects with complex modernist structural steel and concrete and complex MEP. Our steel builders use Revit Structures that they export to .ifc files. Our MEP comes from Revit MEP and is exported to .ifc and emai...

Gus by Newcomer
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Sketch-Up to ArchiCAD

Hi Folks, Could anybody please tell me the best way to import a Sketch-Up model into ArchiCAD, without it becoming an object? Essentially, I want the walls to become wall elements, the floors to become slab elements etc. and I would like to be able t...

griggadee by Contributor
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From ArchiCad 19 to ArchiCad 16

Hello everyone, I have been going nuts about 2 days now on how to save or export Archicad 19 project so it could be opened in Archicad 16. Tried DWG-s but as it seems then theres no 3D. Basically its just that the file could be opened in Archicad 16 ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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units and decimal digits

I have a problem. I built my schedule using IFC rules. I set correctly the type of IFC unit (IFCareameasurement, IFCvolumemeasurement, etc.) I expect the schedules report the number of digits as set in preferences ... but NO. I set 3 decimal digits a...

alemanda by Enthusiast
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Export to autocad (dwg) - specific queries

Has anyone (successfully) addressed the following in the process of exporting archicad drawings to autocad: 1) Exporting colours as "BYLAYER" so that when opened in autocad, colours adopt template layer colours (which is office standard protocol). Th...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Suffix m2

Hi! The suffix "m2" in Archicad Schedule is a big problem for me. I'm trying to create a master Excel spreadsheet composed by several Archicad schedules and the field "grand total" with the suffix "m2" is not a valid number in excel. Is there a way t...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Z-values of a text file into a mesh?

Hi! I have a text file(* which has thousands of Z-values separated by a space. I wonder is it possible to get them into a MESH using GDL script? I’ve been able to read the values from text file using Text I/O add-on, and even put them into parameter ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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