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ArchiCAD 21 - Graphic scale disappears @ 1/64" scale

when using the NCS drawing Title 21, the graphic scale dissapears when you have a scale of 1/64" or 1/128". is there a patch for this, as I am guessing this is a bug. thanks Caroline Morel AC 21 - Mac OS X Yosemite Manchester, NH

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Multiple label select

With the new label (from v20), it will behave differently if the entire label is selected vs just the text portion. This is really useful for doing things like Aligning and Distributing for neatness of presentation. However, it seems that the only wa...

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Grey Scale for Placed PDFs

I can't seem to get some placed PDFs of drawings to accept the "grayscale" setting for pen sets. Anyone else experiencing this? Black and white works ok but there is no difference when compared to grayscale.

Area text rotation and other gripes

There is a bug with ArchiCAD that has persisted for longer than I can remember, that is even longer than the quick layers palette disappearing for no reason. When you set the angle of area text for a fill, it doesn't mater whether you set it using re...

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3d Document Render and Save as Part of Project

Is it possible to save the actual rendering of a 3d document inside ArchiCAD, as part of the projects documentation? I don't see how to do that. I can create a 3d view and save it inside ArchiCAD, but can also the render be saved in there, so that it...

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Custom Dimension Text Reverting to Measured

Multiple dimension strings are doing this. If I dimension a door as centered between two walls, for example, and I change the text on both sides to "EQ", the next time I open the file, one of them reverts to the measured value--but not both. If there...

AC21 Label / annotation object?

Hi! I haven't run AC20 because our old template was huge to change. But now we finally building a AC21 template. There isn't any way to label objects automatically like we could in older ArchiCad versions with the little checkbox? I've tried to use d...

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Sheet Number Reference with Autotext

In construction documents we often say, for example: "See Sheet A-601 for detail." Is it possible to use autotext to select the sheet number the detail is on or the detail itself so if the sheet sequence changes or the detail moves elsewhere, the aut...

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Continuos elevations

I have a box enclosing an stair case, not all the angles of the box are 90 degrees, some are some not. I want to create a continuous elevation of all the sides of the box. Is that possible? Another question that arose me when I was an Autocad user it...

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Can a label tag both Dimensions and Element ID?

Hello, I'd like to figure out to make a label tag both the element ID and a label. I've seen that there are two separate labels that are capable of this. One label can tag the element ID and another label can tag dimensions. I'd like to just use one ...

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