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how can I rotate the Text in Grid ?

Hi, Please see attached. I wanna rotate the text (A,B,C or 1,2,3) in Grid in layout to align with the vertical as is in the attached file. Does anyone know how to do it ? Please advise Thanks so much

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placing image files create huge pdf file sizes

Hi Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong when pdf'ing? Image files and or photos placed using the 'place external (content) drawing' dropdown create huge files when pdf'd through the publisher. So, in this instance I have placed a 328 KB jp2 into a...

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Project Info won't stick

Hello, My "Project Info" won't permanently link to my project. I fill out the project information, save the file as a .xls to my project library, then load it into the project. Each of my sheets neatly displays correct title block information accordi...

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Plotting Marquee area or current view

Hello, I started working with archiCAD like 7 weeks ago everything went fine till I got a new Computer. Some settings are different but everything went fine except one thing: My question and problem is: When i have a drawing and I want to Print/Plot ...

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Examples???

We've been using Archicad for about a year in our office and still aren't satisfied with how our construction drawings look on paper. I would love to see examples of carefully drawn plans, sections, elevations & details that have good line quality (w...

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losing story heights from project to layout

Hey Guys In the project and view maps the story lines and heights show on elevations but when i transfer them to the layout they disappear. I know this will be something simple. Cheers

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AC13 Printing to PDF Problem

AC 13-64 Is this a bug? Printing a marquee to pdf from elevation/section window now takes over 2 minutes for me. I thought it was freezing, but it eventually comes back and produces the print. AC 12 took a few second to print the PDF. Anyone else hav...

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Primer on detailing needed

I'm a second year architecture student and am beginning to get into detailing on a basic level. As my drawings are done in archicad, I would like to do my details in here too. I'm struggling to find much information of note on beginning this process....

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Manual scale in drawing title?

Hi all, I keep receiving drawings in PDF that are already printed to scale. When I attach them to my layouts, the drawing title shows scale as 1:1. I tried to change scale info manually in the NCS title in v12, to no avail. The "use original scale" o...

Losing textures - from plan to layout

I have a problem copying fills from plans to the master layout. The textures get changed and I have no idea how I could solve this. I have created my own textures (bmp files) and uploaded them; in plan view they look perfect, but in layout view they ...

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