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Editing Plane vertical grid

Hi Everyone, I seem to have lost the vertical grid of the editing plane. Does anyone know how to turn it back on? Please see the image attached. Thank you very much for the assistance.

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Correcting wall intersection and surface override.

I’m having an issue with cleanly intersecting walls (brick veneer composite), and because of this the surface override texture does not correctly overlay on connecting walls. I have tried to reset the 3D texture, but I think it still doesn't have the...

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Creating a wall with different materials at different height

Could someone advise/point me in the right direction for creating a wall(s) with different materials at different heights please. I have masonry at low level, with cladding above it and I'd like to know the best method(s) for modelling it. I started ...

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Magic Wand not working from space bar on Mac (AC21)

So, as the title says, I can't use the magic wand from it's space bar shortcut ever since I updated to AC21. I even added the shortcut manually, but still nothing. Has anyone had this problem? How can I fix it?

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Where is Graphisoft?

What really annoys me about the yearly new tools is that we have all these questions on them and now the new stair tool, by power users and god help the novice user, and not one response from Graphisoft. Why can't one of the Graphisoft developers ans...

Cannot Snap to Trace Reference

I am working on a wall section and would like to draft it over a trace reference of the wall section view. In the view, I turned on the trace reference and dragged it to the side to draft over. For some reason I cannot snap to the trace reference wit...

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Catnic Lintels/Beams

I'm struggling with this one. How do people add in lintels/steel/beams, in this case a Catnic CG90/100 for a cavity wall? I feel I should be adding this detail in 3D or should I just draw it in 2D over my section cut in the view map. I've looked thro...

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Rainwater Pipes and Gutters

Another Revit to Archicad question, how do you/what is the best way to model rainwater pipes and gutters please?

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Profile overrides in AC21 are buggy

I noticed after switching a project from AC20 to AC21 a bunch of my complex profiles seem to be a bit buggy. The overrides I had set up in 20 are messed up and I can't seem to recreate the same overrides I had even if I build a new profile from scrat...

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