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

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AC10 Keys not working on Powerbook

I cannot get some of the most helpful features of AC10 to work on my G4 17" Powerbook. The one that irritates me the most is the roof trimming. First, I can only select on roof plan at a time because the shift key is not working. I does not lock in a...

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ArchiCAD key Lost

I have purchased and used archiCAD since 1999 and have subscribed until now. I lost my key 20 days ago, tried hard to find it, and have now contacted my ArchiCAD support team, who suggested I should buy another because it was not stolen but lost (our...

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Topo problems

I cannot figure out how to create roads on a topo, at least correctly. The way I have gone about it so far is by creating a polyline that follows the topo and then with the magic wand cut a hole through the mesh of one topo set to be grass and then p...

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Problems with placing Roads in Topo.

AHHHH..... I cannot figure out what the heck is going on. when i trace the road with a polyline and cut the hole through mesh everything is fine but when i go to generate it in the 3D window this message comes up .... Invalid polygon, self intersecti...

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Linking elevation tags

For one reason or another, a few of my elevation tags in AC9 are not coordinated correctly when viewed from Plotmaker and read as 'undefined value'. I have tried relinking the view, deleting and re-importing problematic elevation drawings from the la...

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saving from model view to dwg

Perhaps there is something in the model of that floor that the DWG translator doesn't like. Is there anything about it that's different from the floors above and below? You could try partial models of the story you want to save. If some work and othe...

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Wall intersections

In AC 10 I can't get these walls to intersect properly. They are the same wall settings including wall priority.

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Bounding text box of leader

There are two ways to insert text, one with a double click in which the text continues on with out any carriage returns and drawing a "text box" in which the text continues along with in the bound parameters of the box that you create. Is there a way...

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Favorites List in AC10 - How do you.......

How do yall use this new feature of it only displaying the items of the selected tool? I've been playing with this for some time and have tried to set it up to work best, but I'm not sure I like the way I am doing it now. I'm interested in knowing if...

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