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How to you create cladding of any sort using Archicad 19?

Hello, I'm trying to install a cladding system on my model using some particular BIM objects, however It seems that I'm missing something important. I made an account in BIM Objects and I tried following these tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-end

is there a way of merging or combining plines that have overlapped or are simply two plines end to end? I know in the other 2D program from Autodesk...there was a "join" function that allowed ends of plines to 'join' and become one pline.

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no tabs

I don't seem to have the option to turn on tabs. the manual says to go to >window>turn tabs on, off but i don't have this option at all. it also says that tabs are on by default, but i've never seen them. i am on the latest build of AC on a mac runni...

My Layers Group number is changing on its own.

I have a layer on which I put my exterior walls. In my older template, I had it set on the intersection group number 2. But now that I have updated my template and the way I am doing things, I have changed this layer to group 1, like all my other lay...

Exploding polyline to lines - possible ?

I need to explode a polyline into lines. When i"m using the explode function ( Edit > Reshape > Explode into Current View) it explodes but into Polilines, not lines... Anyone knows how to get lines ? Is there a mistake in the Archicad help or its me ...

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opening lines

Hi, I manage to turn on opening lines on my doors and windows, but I would like not to show them on the 3d model, as shown, and only show them on elevations and sections. Can someone advise me on how to achieve this.

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T-shaped Stairs

Is there an easy way to create a t-shaped set of stairs i.e one main run which splits at right angles on a landing before rising a couple more steps?

Substituting 100s of objects wt various rotation?

Hi, I've got a large main model and eight module files with interior objects from IFC. I want to substitute some of the objects with more nice looking ones from the AC lib or my own cleaned up objects made directly from the ifc-objects. When I select...

Roof Edge showing on Plan View?

Just this morning I noticed something very odd with my plans that I'm working on. The edges of the roof planes are showing on plan view. This shows up when 2 roof planes of different pitches intersect at perpendicular. It shows as 2 distinct lines, r...