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

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Archicad not saving

Hi All, for some unknown reason Archicad did not autosave or manually save when I shut down yesterday. Opened the file today and nothing I did yesterday was there. Had a look at the time machine backups all yesterday and the file I was working on nev...

Surface hexagonal shape tiles.

I am drawing a project where I would like to use hexagonal shape tiles made o asphalt paper, both for facade and roofing. Is there any surface I can get that texture.

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Complex roofing with single plane construction.

My question is how can I build a complex building with the single plane. I mean to obtain the intersection between the different slope. If I tried to build it with the several planes tool I only get a predefined roof i.e., for a rectangular shape I g...

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Building Envelope

Afternoon All, Just curious how everyone models their building envelope (shows the Hight in relation to the boundary (HIRB) and maximum height) In the past we have used CAdimage - Site > Building envelope. However in New Zealand with the implication ...

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Resolved! 3-way wall junction confusion

hi there, I have read about wall junction priority but i can't seem to get the correct result. The walls without fill are the same materials. how do i get the thin wall to join correctly with the bigger composite. i know if i move the reference line ...

Resolved! Move wall+windows axis "Z"

I am trying to move walls of a building in the Z axis, I can do it but the windows still remain in their previous z coordinate. I can move then horizontal connected to the wall, but not in vertical.' Any suggestions?

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Composite Profile Beam Plan View

Hi, I am designing a composite profile which will be placed on plan with slope, so I have to use it as a beam. I want to see the various profiles which are part of the composite profile on plan. This seems to be a problem with beams as it shows only ...

Takis by Enthusiast
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