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

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View map folders

Hello everyone, I need your help here. when I am creating view map folders I can't do it the way i used to before. I must be missing something. I need the folder to have view settings when I right click on it and to have the icon that appears to the ...

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Problem joining three walls when one is angled?

Hi I have a problem occasionally when joining three wall. It always seems to happen when one is at an angle, I can never seem to get the third to display properly and it especially happens when I'm trying to connect at the angled joint. See picture b...

File Name has [Read-only] appended

I was working in a file named: 1602 | Based on 05 | 161124.07.pln When I was done, I selected Save As and named it: 1602 | Based on 05 | 161124.11.pln In my project folder system the file shows correctly as "1602 | Based on 05 | 161124.11.pln" but th...

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GRAPHISOFT server maintenance on November 27th, 2016

Dear All, Please be informed that we are performing server maintenance on Sunday (November 27th) between 8AM-1PM (UTC). During the maintenance window it will not be possible to upload or download software licenses or to activate new hardware license ...

How to permanently lock to the edit plane?

hi all, any idea how i can permanently lock to the edit plane while drawing (tracing) the profile of existing meshes with morph method polygonal. in this case now i want to redraw the profile of the C shaped part of the X-Ray machine on the edit plan...

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joining curtain walls together

Hey, Below can you guys see a picture. I'm trying to make a curtain wall at the empty space joining the both sides. I tried with defining boundary line, but can't make the ends meet. If somebody knows that would be great

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Place 2D DWG plan in 3D window/document

Hi, I'm trying to take a 2D imported DWG/DXF surveyors data file and place it into the 3D window underneath the 3D elements so as to be able to produce some nice rendered coloured images of the project with the black and white DWG info underneath as ...

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Cant control wall connections

Hi! I have a problem when trying to build a chimney. It somehow "expands" and connects to other surfaces, and I dont really know whats causing it. I guess it could be the intersection priority, but its getting a bit confusing. If someone could have a...

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Wall color on floor plan

I just started learning Archicad and had an issue. As I draw walls on my floor plan they appear in blue color. I want to change that to black or to a different hatch. I couldn't find it for hours. Can anyone help please? Thanks

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