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

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Layouts and pen sets

How do you define which pen set is used in a layout? I don't mean drawings placed into a layout but texts, lines etc. placed directly into the layout. I'd love the rawing titles to print in black but it seems to me that the pen set used is sometimes ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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If your Spellcheck is not working try this

I figured out the problem I had was the archicad program uses spellcheck the preferences set inside of word. The default is to ignore spelling errors in words that are in UPPERCASE which it think most architects use in their drawings

Anonymous by Not applicable
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date of publishing

Hi all, do you know an authomatic method (in Archicad) to add the date to the folder where the drawings are pubblished?

alemanda by Participant
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Dimension problems AC16 and AC 17

Hi I have som problem when i want to show the radius of round walls. This is a problem i experienced in AC 16 but hoped it will be resolved in AC 17. I am very sad to se that it did not get resolved. Now i have to draw my own reference line on either...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Resize/scale Reference

Is there anyway to display a reference in layout that will fit the adjusted scale of drawings in the layout ? In other words, get them to match. I have a plan I want to display at a different scale in the layout than it is drawn in the floor plan and...

PDF Drawings SLOW to load in Adobe Acrobat

My client is having difficulty doing measurement in Adobe Acrobat. Drawing sheets are published as PDF from the AC Publisher. Each drawing sheet is between 400KB and 3.5MB large. The building sections are the larger file size drawings and they will t...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Model View Options in 3D document (Floor Plan or RCP)

So we are starting to explore using the 3D document in more of our production documentation but found a little issue with the 3D document; it doesn't recognize all the possible modification options in the Model View Options. We are trying to hide the...

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ares997 by Contributor
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Survey Angles Broken???

For the first time in quite a while I have needed to lay out some site features based on surveyor's units for the angles. It seems that this feature is broken in AC17. When I attempt to enter the angle in the tracker (or the coordinates palette) the ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Annotations - Text - Dimensions - Labels

Hello all, For some unknown reason (likely user error) all of my annotations, dimensions etc. is showing a + and four corners. I have read the reference guide (whatever is good for) and nothing plus I checked text setting and nada... Any help is appr...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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How to link a layer combination to a layout

Hi there, it may sounds like a stupid question, but I wonder if there is a way to link a layer combination to a layout. I found that every time I open a layout book, the layer combination active is the last one I was using rather than the one made pu...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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