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About Archicad's documenting tools, views, model filtering, layouts, publishing, etc.

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Resolved! Problem when Layouting

Hello everyone! So my uni group is coming to the end of a half-year long project and we're beginning to layout the final product. A problem has arisen: In recent weeks I have dedicated my time to creating renderings and upon exporting them from Photo...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Same View with Different Layout Scales (Site Plan)?

I want to use my Site Plan View in two separate layouts, with two separate scales (one layout for Site Overview @ 1:100 and one for a more detailed plan of one of the structures @ 1:30). Is it possible to have the same text and symbols from the Origi...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Schedules, revisions and layouts

I haven't found any articles about this and can't really get my head into this so; If you use Archicad's revisions and change managements - how can these be applied to schedules for example door or window schedules? All drawings, where I can mark a r...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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V22 3D Document update fail

I have tried to update a 3D document using all the options in the help file without success. Anyone else having difficulty with this? Thankfully it was easy enough to recreate the view and relabel it to get round the problem.

Label tool

Hi All, I made a custom object and I would like to use the label tool to label this object but I want the label to display a custom text field parameter I have inside the object. Is there any way to do this? I know I can make a schedule looking at th...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Fill Pattern Hatch Scale Not Matching

Hi, I have copied a fill hatching into my current project from another file, that I want to match. It is on a layout and I use the pickup parameters dropper to copy the hatch and then draw a new hatch. The hatch matches in all respects, except the sc...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Mac <-> Windows font exchange problem

I have been experiencing font exchange problems when opening files between Mac/Windows computers. I was able to solve this issue on my iMac using the XReadCfg.txt. Now I need to work remotely so I moved my license to my MacBook Pro. I installed the f...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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fill in color

I usually do the fill in layout space so the color show up - for presentation purpose, and they plot just fine. Wall lines black, fills in color as I want it. However, this time I want to do the fill in model space so I can show the square footage, h...

dhnguyen by Contributor
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Text Changing between log-ins

Hello. We have a serious issue with text being completely inconsistent in both model views and layouts. Annotations in the model aren't too critical but they are bothersome because they are completely unpredictable. I will give an example of both. If...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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