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

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Mouldings and Panels with SEO to Roof

Hello all, I am using the Mouldings and Panels Wall Accessory to display a Wainscot material at the Gable end. I am using a Tall "Baseboard" material to represent the lower wall material and am choosing a different material for the Wainscot. If the w...

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Stacking walls on one story

Does anyone have any advice on stacking walls for instance a concrete that goes up to lets say 4' with a wood framed wall above. Should I make an intermediate story in between? Thanks Mo

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Importing display options

Any way to import existing display options into another existing project. I'm trying to set up a template, have everything all set except for display options. I found an article in archi-guide, but it references V8.1. Any easier way way to do it in V...

Walls From 2d Plan

I have a 2d plan DXF file format that I have load in archicad 9 what i want to do is create a 3d plan of this. How do i do it IE do i need to convert the 2d lines into walls if so how do i do this Or do i just extrude the 2d plan I will also want to ...

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Not so smart cursor

I am probably doing something wrong As I am drafting, lets say adding a point on a roof, when the cursor changes, I click and move on to the next point, only later to find that the node put down is off the edge of the wall or whatever I was trying to...

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AutoGuess on Keyed Dimensions?

Hi all, After many weeks of happy ArchiCADding, Something Strange is Suddenly Happening...as I go to key in changed dimension information--here (attached) in a beam, but it happens also with walls and whatever else--the clever ArchiCAD Guessing Engin...

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Details in section

Hi, I want to ask professionals how they make detailed sections form Archicad's "raw" sections? (I think not to texts and dimensioning.) For example, how they construct a "perfect" wall-slab intersection? (Wall stands on the concrete slab, not on the...

IFC 1.5

Can I use IFC 1.5 for Archicad 9?? Because IFC 1.5 will be used only in Archicad 7. Thanks, Hans

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Working with the Mesh Tool

I have recently began exploring the capabilities of the Mesh tool. I have been successful in building a sloped stepped site, but is there a way to manipulate the mesh points so that the site has a more realistic slope and not stepped. I have tried to...

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Sudden Lightworks Issues?

Hi there, I could really do with some help! I've been building a model of a design of mine, and been using lightworks rendering engine to render some nice images of the interiors. This tends to take considerable periods of time (aaprox 8-10minutes mo...

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