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

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PDF file size

Not the first time this will of been discussed. We are desperate for a solution or workaround to the problem of PDF file size/complexity. We have a large project with 200+ drawings and a client that cannot open the majority of the files unless we ope...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Redefine section view to use 3D cutaway?

Just wondering if any clever person has come up with a way to make a scention or elevation use the contents of a 3D cutaway as the source geometry rather than the whole model? This would allow me to remove object in the foreground that a section mark...

Dimension in rooms

I would like to be able to easily add dimensions to the walls in all rooms in a project (a square room=4 dimensions, a L-shaped room=6 dimensions etc). I have tested the automatic exterior dimensioning and the automatic interior dimensioning but none...

pmi22 by Participant
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Drawing in layout rotates without any reason

Now I don't understand this.. I have 6 identical views of six stories. One of them rotates automatically to the different angle when I'm trying to put it in the layout. I have tried to save the view again by copying settings from story above, but not...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Layout Book Lag- Speed up

Sorry if this has been discussed. I did a brief search and didn't find. I am running ArchiCAD 19 Windows 10 Home (64bit) Intel i-7-4790K Quad Core 4.0 Ghz 500GB SSD 32GB SDRAM DDR3 1600 Originally running a Quadro K2200 4GB graphics card. It broke, s...

Kaihaku by Participant
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Resolved! AC21 - Pen color in Layout different to Master Layout

I am experiencing some strange behaviour with layouts in AC-21. I've created a master layout on which a view from the project info is placed. On this master layout pen color/weight is correct -> black lines / green logo-part. When I create a layouts ...

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Detail Tool - Working with

I'm having a problem with the detail marker tool. For some reason after the 2D detail has been created I have no access to the view settings for the detail and as a result i have no control over the appearance of the detail on the drawing. I'm guessi...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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how to build some slopes

Hello. I have the following concrete construction to build and I do not know to choose between the slab, mesh and roof tools, in order to solve it. For meshes, I noticed I can only elevate points, I cannot tell a pitch. In my project, the slopes need...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Display imperial and metric floor area in archicad

I seem to remember that ArchiCAD could convert a Floor Area and place a a piece of text that was in whatever units you wanted it in. I have found the "Convert Dimensions" command in the Documentation/Annotation/Secondary Dimensions menu but that does...