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

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Wrong working unit - how to resize a large file

Here is my problem: I hope someone can help me. I have received a pln file of a whole city, and the working units are wrong. The actual measurement in archicad is 1000 times smaller than it is supposed to be. A length that should be 40m is showing up...

Paopao by Newcomer
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Override Fill Display not working correctly

Hello, Ive got publishing problems with my drawings and the override fill display. As you can see in the screenshot, the lines from the wall are not plotted black, but white. What seems to be the problem? This project was drawn in ac15. Best regards ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Rail under leaves

Hi All, Does anyone know how to change a the 'rail line' beneath a sliding door to show as a different line weight from the frame? They both appear to be controlled by the 'frame contour pen' which is fairly stupid. The frame is cut in section so nee...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Schedule's Units

Its the end of day and I'm trying to go home but for the life of me I can not see what is going wrong with my Schedules units. I have a number of schedules that are displaying all sizes in millimeters. But in the same file I have a Schedule that insi...

Middle mouse button - Orbit and Pan

Is there any way to reverse the way it works? So that middle mouse will orbit and holding [shift] will pan? I can't find any options in the options to do with mouse clicks.

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Secondary Dimensions (Add-On) not showing

I have a problem with the secondary dimensions function not showing in the menubar, I can add it under the work environment but it doesn't show up in the document extra menu. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Building Materials not showing hatching

i cant figure this out so can someone please help? we have an old job from Archicad 13 we have opened it up in Archicad 19 and every wall composite type we choose comes out with a solid fill on it instead of what its meant to be. we have tried scalin...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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EXPLODED PDF'S WON'T PUBLISH publisher won't accept drawings

I was sent 10 sheets to convert into dwg files, then export back. I have exploded all, placed each title block on a sheet, then placed the drawing on the sheet (sort of reproducing each sheet as it came in). Now wanted to put all into a publisher set...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Fascia Profile not showing in 3d

I have created a fascia profile and applied it to a wall but now it is not showing in 3d, it was 1mm thick beefed it up to 4mm on the visible face to check it wasnt due to minimum visible thickness, but still nothing is showing tried restarting archi...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Exploding external drawing into current view - cant edit

I've placed an external drawing into archicad and then exploded it into the current view to edit it. I can edit elements (change pen colours and fills) but as soon as i delete something, it deletes, but there seems to be a background layer of the sam...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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