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Modeling
About Archicad's design tools, element connections, modeling concepts, etc.

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Control Box

Hi! How is it possible to choose to have the control box visible at all times?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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stagger placement of section line

I cannot seem to be able to create a section that staggers or is not just one straight line through the floor plan. This was a feature of older versions...is this no longer available in A10?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Windows with chamfered reveals?

Please can someone advise how you would model a window in a thick wall with chamfered jambs, head and cill on both the inside and outside - such as a slit wall in a castle for example. Would you use SEOs to create the opening first and then somehow p...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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How do YOU use Archicad ??

I would like to know how everyone here uses Archicad The way you are 'meant' and trained to use Archicad according to Graphisoft is to do a reasonable 3d model using composites etc, project elevations and sections, and then rely mainly on patches and...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Hatching with void left in centre?

In Autocad you can hatch an area and leave a void in the middle ie you can hatch for example between two square shapes one inside the other leaving the inner square empty. But in Archicad I dont seem to be able to do this, I try to hatch the two squa...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Software Developent Environments

Roughly Drafted has been posting backgrounders on what Apple's port of Safari to Windows might mean for Developers. An example of his writing is here. http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/79BEDAAE-B881-4108-800D-498F856C50D3.html Not being...

problem turning >1 skin on arched opening

I have a stone veneer clad 24" thick wall. Studs are 2x4s. I want to put arched openings in the wall. The only way I have been able to get more than one skin [appear] to turn in plan is somewhat convoluted and still needs cleanup in the plan view. Th...

Text

I used the text label tool in the viewmap for a wall section at 3/4"=1'-0". It looks good. I use the text label tool in the view map for an exterior elevation at 1/8"=1'-0" and the text is huge. Settings: in text label, point size is 7. In text tool ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Append Composites Trouble

In the Attribute Manager, I open the composite attribute file saved from another project. I select the composites I need, and Append them to the current Project. When I open the composites window, the skin dimensions are correct, but all the fill pat...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Walls Untrim to Roof overnight

I have trimmed five roof segments to a dormer roof, only to find that the mysteriously "untrim" themselves. I have redone this several times, looked at the rendering and everything is okay. Then, later, when I look at the rendering, they are again "u...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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