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Walls of 'dormer' still visible after they've been cut off

Hi everyone! I'm new here and I'm really bad at ArchiCAD so, please don't judge. I'm in the early stages of my latest project for school. I created some sort of 'dormer' for this building. I cut off the walls on the side using the roof as my SOB but ...

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gap at arrow

How do I get rid of the gap between the arrow of the text box frame? It was fine when I create the text box, but the moment I start changing the size of the text or the color, the gap appears. Also, How do I resize the spacing between the text and th...

Disappearing grid elements from sections in AC20

In AC 20 7001, sections - with their gridlines set to show 'all stories, only selected', with say 50% of the perpendicular grid elements selected, - with their views brought as drawings and showing OK, are suddenly losing all their gridlines but one ...

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Question for Chief Architect users re annotations in Archicad

Hello there, (For CA users I’m looking to find an answer to Chief’s annotation set functionality in Archicad) I didn’t think anyone except someone with experience with Chief Architect would understand hence the title. The question is in regards to an...

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Multiple "Details" on one "sheet"

Hi, I've also found a bit frustrating that each Detail via the Detail tool opens up in a new "sheet". There are often times where there are three details on my floor plan, say Junction 1, Junction 2, and Junction 3. There are very similar, but differ...

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Text tool in 3D

Why can't I mark up a 3D rendering with the text tool or label tool? I drew a marquee around a small section of my model and went to 3D (not photo rendering). Now I would like to add some notes and send it to an inspector for comment. But the text to...

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Symbol Misbehaving

Why does this symbol misbehave? When you place it the first time, it looks like the symbol on the top, which is correct, but after it changes to the symbol on the bottom, which is not correct.

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Halftone External PDF

After bringing in an external drawing (a pdf), is there a way to edit the line colour? I would like to make the black and white pdf into a grey line colour. I am not seeing any way to do this and perhaps it is not possible. KrisM

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