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hidden layer appears in layout

Hello. I have the following problem: I placed a drawing in a layout. I then realised I need to hide a layer, that contained fills I did not want to see. I hid the layer, but, no matter how many times I update the layout, the fills still appear. How c...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Scaling Pen Weights for Layouts

What is the current method for getting a View made and saved in say 1/4" scale, to show pen weights at a different scale like 1/16"=1'0" ? Or the other way around - perhaps a 1/4" scale drawing/view that we want to display in Layout as 1"=1'-0" with ...

Seeing which layouts a masterlayout is linked to

Hello Everyone, I am organizing our masterlayouts that were a mess. I wounder if there is any way to see which layouts a masterlayout is linked to? Practical example: I wish to remove an abundant masterlayout. Howevere Archicad squacks and says it is...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Roof thickness vs label thickness

Is there a way to get the built-in ARCHICAD labels to read the perpendicular roof thickness, instead of the vertical roof thickness? I have a 12mm thick composite at 16.5°, and the label reads 13...because it's taking the vertical thickness (not sure...

Bruce by Expert
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Renovation filters and drawings on layouts

I've just transitioned to V21 which has been the easiest transition yet except for one thing. When I do renovation jobs I use a lighter gray line/text colour for the existing elements that are remaining. Now though I find that with elevations and sec...

Arcadia by Contributor
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Sections and Elevations using Renovation Filter

Hi I'm using Archicad 21, and I've tried a lot of different solutions and unfortunately all of them didn't work. I'm using renovation filters and what I want is simple. When in a section or elevation I what to see at the same time the reds (new eleme...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Source detail marker lost link / reference

One of my source detail markers has lost it's link to the placed drawing. It was working fine, but now isn't...and I can't relink it without turning it into a Linked Marker (which turns the detail into an Independent). If I leave it as a source marke...

Bruce by Expert
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AC21 - Pen/fill bug in layout view?

Hi all, Long term user of ArchiCAD and have run into an issue with AC21 that’s got me stumped, I hope it’s just a bug and not just me going crazy in my older days. The issue is that I have placed 2 elevations on a layout…both identical with the same ...

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fhedberg by Contributor
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Drawing list in layout

Hi guys, i was looking for creating a list of drawing wich updates automatically, the list contain the drawing placed on the current layout, is there any way to create such a list please ?? Thanks in advance

print trace

I would love to be able to put a trace reference on a layout and have it print to pdf