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

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How to create walls with lower half rick veneer?

I have a house with full height brick veneer and walls where the brick extends up only 36" with a stone cap and the rest of the wall has siding above. Then I have a window that cuts into both the brick and the siding. What is a good way to create and...

How to model a curving banquette with button recesses

Greetings, I have to model the attached image and believe I can use the Mesh Tool to create the buttoned surface, then convert to a Morph, then rotate. I am uncertain how to take that surface now vertical and curve it 90 degrees. Thanks for any insig...

Resolved! What is the recommended way to create footings?

Creating a house with 8"x16" concrete continuous footing under a concrete wall. What is the best way? Slabs? Beams? Or is there another way to create them with the walls? That way will need to work in stepped footings too. Any how-to links could be h...

Gutter Mitered 20 Missing Corner in Elevation View

I must be missing something but I can't figure out why I have no drawn edge for gutter mitered 20 when I'm in elevation view. I'm been through the objects settings but I can't see anything obvious!

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Resolved! How to create overlaps stair

Does anyone have an idea how to create overlaps stair. The rise is 6 m. The stair is in tree stairways. 1 stairway with 12 steps, 2 - 3 stairways with 11 steps. I created two stairways but the last landing must overlap the lower stairway. There the s...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Substracting from walls.

I was trying to substrate the volume 1 from the blue walls but it is imposible. I could subtract that volume from the grey volume to make the frame, but when after that try to extract the same volume of the walls it seems impossible to me.

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Project info

When you open a project you can see a window with project information for a short time. Can this info be found in ArchiCad after opening the project?

Dontknow by Enthusiast
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Twisted Towers in ARCHICAD ?

Yes it is possible to do without Rhino or Grasshopper. This new ARCHICAD speed modeling tutoral shows you how. Just normal knowledge of geometry and a design idea https://youtu.be/LtwW2eMNlO4

Resolved! demo door only

I have an existing wall where I want to keep, but I want to demo the door and show the door as dashed. Is there a way to do it without doing "Edit>reshape>explode in current view"?

dhnguyen by Contributor
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