A manually created Custom Drawing Title has its limitations. The best way to create a Drawing Title that is highly customizable is by creating it through GDL coding, but with the instructions in this article you can turn your manual Custom Drawing Ti...
Note: The steps described in this article are still applicable for the latest version. The expected outcome of site plan as per the Singapore standards are achievable only by the workaround given in the article. Site plan shows Plan of the buildings ...
Autotext on Master Layouts is an intelligent Archicad tool that automatically updates documentation-related information in title blocks. However, users needed to add manual text, place specific autotexts for each subset in the Layout Book, or create ...
Got a huge amount of folders in your View Map and/or in the Layout Book and want to see all their content expanded? Select the folder and use: ALT+right arrow (MAC) and * (Windows) to expand all within the selected folder ALT+left arrow (MAC) and – (...
Archicad now allows the user to hotlink multiple blocks with different story settings. Only item that need to be taken care is Level Markings as it do not come from the hotlink file and users have to mark the level with lines and text. The object Sec...
There are times when you need a Drone view of the building to show in Master Plan. All you need is the outline of the building, but it takes a lot of time to get a clean and crisp overall boundary of the entire project. And, in case there are updates...
Affected versions: Archicad 25 Update 500x | Severity: fixed in an update | ID: DEF-5748 We have discovered a regression issue with Archicad 25 Update 500x. Issue: After exporting to PDF or other 2D formats, the autotext in a custom drawing title wil...
In this article you can find out how to create a simple custom Drawing Title without GDL coding. 1. Draw your custom Drawing Title Navigate to a Floor Plan View Set the scale to 1:1 to get the paper-size portions (because that is how it will be repre...
PlotMaker was a layouting program that was part of the ARCHICAD package. This standalone application was optimized to prepare an architectural documentation set based on the views, drawings and images created in ARCHICAD. PlotMaker could also accommo...
Revision History library object, line spacing issue Affected version: 18 | Severity: no workaround applicable | ID: 172837 Note: This issue was fixed in ARCHICAD 19 release version. Issue The line spacing of the Revision History object is lofty if on...
This document was prepared in response to the Archicad-Talk question of when to use the Figure Tool rather than the Drawing Tool.The Drawing and Figure tools are Archicad features that allow the user to deal with drawings and images. Even though thos...
This article explains how to embed one or more standard detail drawings into your Project. In this example, we will embed a balcony and Wall-Slab intersection detail into our Project, and place it onto a Layout. We will also create a marker which con...
