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

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how can I draw a cross for sections on structural timber

For my structural timber members that are not face timber, I would like the section to be represented just by drawing a cross (from the corners of the section of the piece of timber). any one know how I can do that easily? ........ or is it just done...

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7.0 Teamwork & Publisher: What are the rules?

I'm baffled by the effect of Teamwork on Publisher settings. Who can change what? I often have Publisher changes disappear later in the day, and I've assumed it has something to do with sending and receiving changes. How about signing in exclusively ...

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100,000 to 1000000

Hi, Is it possible to change the way Archicad shows dimensions, in terms of not showing any commas ?? The local building department likes to see centimeters 1000 and not 1,000. Even after I change the Regional and Language Options settings in WinXP H...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Missing windows

I am tearing my hair out here A couple of window parts are refusing to show up in plotmaker. Some points; 1) I am not on a network and all files/libraries are local 2) I have cleared all my caches 3) the windows show in the plotmaker elevations and o...

Section ID wrong

Hopefully this will be a simple fix. In our office, we identify sections by letter ("A," "B," "C," etc). However, when I ID the sections in ArchiCad by letter, PlotMaker lists them as "1," "2," "3," etc. The numbers and letters align as would be expe...

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Stretch, Cut, Split, Copy Multi Copy etc in Elevation Window

I have been working mostly in the 3D window when in terms of manipulating objects etc in the vertical direction. I just discovered that I can get much better control over vertical alignments if I work in the Elevation window by adding 2D lines for al...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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PM Cannot Find Plotter Driver

I have a user who is publishing from PlotMaker. He set up everything correctly -- even selecting the appropriate Xerox driver supplied by ArchiCAD. When he publishes, PlotMaker thinks for about 4 mintes, then pops up the error you see in the graphic ...

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Saving Criteria changes

I am unable to save changes to links between properties and criteria. Nor can I save changes to databases. When I try either one, I get an error message that says "Cannot write output file". Although the changes appear to be saved for that session, t...

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Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

Is there a way to have plotmaker print the date when printed and possibly the source of the file on the edge of the sheet every time one plots or prints from plotmaker? I have discovered how you do this in Archicad but not in Plotmaker. David Rulon D...

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Plot maker project file

I have been using plotmaker more fully than ever before. I have been using it for virtually all of my project correspondence. SD, DD, CD, Letters & letter head, Faxes, Transmittals, etc, all in the order that I chose. I have set up master layouts for...

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