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Strange Tracker behaviour

Tracket shows incorrect values in Layout book! The right value is the one in the Coordinate box. Any ideas?

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Moving group of master layouts

I have developed (and continue to modify) a collection of master layouts for my projects. I also have two or three project templates designed to suit different project types. I'd like to insert the collection of master layouts in each of these templa...

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Views Placed on Sheet not Rotated to 90 Degrees

Hello, I seem to be having this problem where if I place a view on a sheet, it places itself at a strange angle so I have to rotate the view back to 90 degrees. It seems to happen on all my views, whether I drag them onto the sheet or choose 'Place o...

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Why the Linear Dimensions is locked?

I haven't noticed the the unit of Linear Dimensions is meter at the very beginning. When I tried to export the file, the unit of the Linear Dimensions seems to be locked as meter. I tried many times to change the unit to be millimeter in Project Map ...

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Problems with printing to scale

Hello, I wonder if anyone could help me. I'm trying to save a PDF file that will print to scale and usually, what I'd do is use the marquee tool to select the area I want to print then save as.. > pdf > change options to 1:50 (or whatever is relevant...

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problems with layers and dimensioning styles

Hello, I have the following problem in Archicad. The program keeps changing my dimensioning style from DIN tot METRIC every time i change between stories. Also it keeps changing the visibility of layers to some strange scheme. If I reopen/close visib...

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Interior Elevation Markers - Layers/Visibility question.

I have generally used the section tool for interior elevations in the past however I decided to try using the Interior Elevation tool. Everything works OK except the markers appear on both the 1:100 floor plans and the 1:20 detail plans - which are a...

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Autotext for contents page

Hi there, I've had a little look on the forums regarding the above mentioned subject but haven't found anything. I guess, more specifically, my question: is there a way to link, say for example, your front cover contents to your print layouts? It wou...

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Element ID Management > Sort Order (AC14)

Greetings, Using the Element ID Manager in renumbering doors or windows for an entire building, I believe I formerly would select the doors or windows in the order I wanted them renumbered in, then applied the ID reassignment. Now in AC14 I cannot ge...

How to create LIVE Detail Floor Plans

Hello everybody and happy NY! I need to create detail floor plans and I would like them to be live. If I simply use the main floor plan 1:100 as source, I then have to create a specific layer combination 1:25 to turn off the 1:100 2D line work/text a...

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