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

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Default Layer combinations

Ok so I have another question that I'm sure has a simple answer. I'm working on creating my own project template and when I open an new project using my template the Project Map Story views keep defaulting back to HVAC layer combination. This is real...

Zones not recognising columns

I have just created a complex profile column to resolve a number of walls forming a messy junction which has worked as hoped, but as a consequence the zone partly contained by the column cannot resolve the space. I have since tried this with a basic ...

Lines appearing in wall fill

I'm having trouble getting rid of these white lines in my wall fill. They seem to appear randomly as some walls have them but not others. I've tried turning off skin separator lines, bringing the walls to the front/send to back, checked my pen sets. ...

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Creating an external splayed reveal.

I've just wasted 2 hours trying to find a solution to this! It's driving me crazy... I need to create a window with a visible external masonry lintel, and a stone sill. I also need to reveal this window (externally) with a splayed reveal, but I only ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Simutanuasly display

Good morning from Greece. I try ARCHICAD 20 from my browser using this link: https://t.co/IudZf9ZLoI I am an experience Revit user. But i want to see how archicad handle some things t i dont like in Revit. One of them was the abillity to unfloat a vi...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Pre-dimensioned beam for ArchiCAD

Hello everyone, I have created a predimensioned concrete beam for ArchiCAD with GDL. Stretch the beam, and its height and width grow automatically, according to the span. Useful for conceputal design phase. Futher informations: http://noletoblog.blog...

Curtain Wall - "parameter injection immunity"

hi all I have a problem with Curtain Walls: From some curtain walls I can not inject parameters to another curtain wall and can not be injected by the others. Between the "others" i can transfer the parameters via parameter injection without any prob...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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slab transparency issues

I'm sure its been addressed here but I cant seem to find it. I cant seem to get my slab transparency correct in plan view. The lower slab is shown by a dashed line and is not blocked by the slab above. Where is the transparency setting?

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Why are dimensions not stored in Complex Profiles?

I create complex profiles and dimension them so that they are easier to work with. Then I store those profiles. When I come back to them to edit them again, the dimension strings I created previously have disappeared. Does anyone know why this happen...

Gus by Newcomer
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