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

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ArchiCAD saving error

Hi there, We have recently experienced a very serious saving error that threatens our ability to use ArchiCAD over our office computer network. We use networked Mac's with the CAD files residing on an OS Server 10.3.9 G4 server and our workstations a...

jzarmin by Newcomer
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Elevations with material color atributes

Is there a way to produce elevations with material color attributes? I know it is possible to make a 3D frontal rendering:copy the fills from the 3D window and paste them on the elevation window...but, is there another easiest way around? Jaime Neto ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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line thicknes

Line thicknes - is it possible to define like in autocad?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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working 3d ?the rotating,facede,axo window is gone!! please

i am a new user of archicad. i start a 3d view and i don't know why the automaticaly afferent window that let you to rotate the 3d model is gone. how can i make it to appear again???? i forgot even the name of it! maybe from thos question you realise...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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working 3d ?the rotating,facede,axo window is gone!! please

i am a new user of archicad. i start a 3d view and i don't know why the automaticaly afferent window that let you to rotate the 3d model is gone. how can i make it to appear again???? i forgot even the name of it! maybe from thos question you realise...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Why won't section marker change to elevation?

I have one plan file that when I place a section with markers, I am unable to get it to switch to an elevation type (i.e. one marker in center). If I open up another plan, same loaded libraries, same marker type -- no problem. Anybody have any sugges...

Magic Wand not working

In the past I have been able to reduce the number of nodes on a polyline imported from autocad to use as ridgeline in the mseh tool. In the magic wnad setting box under the Tools menu I have set the radio button to segment length of 5' and have tried...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Do large libraries slow down ArchiCAD

I've noticed that my copy of ArchiCAD crashes more frequently and takes longer to save than it had in the past. Recently, I shared my library with my business partner. I've added a lot of objects that I've downloaded from the web. He said that my lib...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Drawing building and wall sections

How do you generate clean section views? Unfortunately, we are not able to use ArchiCAD's sections straight from the cut section view of the 3D model. The intersections of roofs and other objects do not generate as we need them to appear (see image 0...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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line type scaling

i need to know a way to change my line type scale. without changes my whole drawing scale. i need to change it just for a single line.

Anonymous by Not applicable
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