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

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About bending elements

I'm working on an old project I had done before in Maya.I try to transfer it to Archicad. I'm stuck in the butterfly's antennas, which are fading out on their edges(circle profile and bending). I have tried shell,morph . I can not make the circular p...

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Corrugated lines for roof only showing in shadows?

I am doing some elevations for a project and the roofing isnt showing any lines for the corrugation except only in where there is shadows? What am I doing wrong. Pic showing example. Thanks

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WALLS NOT CLOSING

outside wall skin not closing anyone have suggestions?

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22 Curtain Wall Tool - Corner Clean Up

Hi Folks, I am getting to know the Curtain Wall tool in AC22 for the first time, and could use some guidance on corner clean up. See attached. I've created a curtainwall scheme, and placed it in the model as a fully enclosed curtainwall. There must b...

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Conflict door and Trim

Please, anybody, know how to fix this ? or it is a bug? Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving

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Walls not coming together properly

I'm certain this is addressed elsewhere here, but I couldn't find my exact situation. The walls in my attachment all have different heights, so I don't want them to appear as if they intersect the way it naturally wants to connect them. The middle wa...

Help with Skin priority option

New Archicad user here. What do I have to do to make the skin priority options(?) appear? As you can see from the attachment there is no drag bar for the skin priority of the composites. TIA

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Wall & Rendering

1. 3D WALLS - Why is this happening? part of the wall just disappears, can't seem to fix it. 2. RENDER- i'm not sure whats going on with the reflection of the windows? or its seeing through the walls to the other buildings i have around. any help wou...

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Resolved! Displace Reference

Hi all, I appear to be unable to use the "Temporarily Displace Reference" option. When I attempt to use it, as soon as I select the position to move the trace to, it slides back to it's original location... Ling.

why can't i snap to trace?

for some reason that i'm not able to figure out, i cannot snap anything to the trace. and i'm not finding anything in the user guide that suggests you can turn it on or off. am i missing something or is this a bug?