Quick Key Tuesday – Show/Hide Guide Lines
Show/Hide guide lines with a press of a single key. Todays shortcut is brought to you by key, Q
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Want to give your client that extra WOW factor? Send them a GRAPHISOFT BIMx model which they’ll navigate through your 3D model on their computer. Open your project and check the model in 3D. Still in...
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Objective Toolbox Icon
To have uniformity in our tools, the formely known Framing tool has been renamed to Objective in the Toolbox, this change affect only the ArchiCAD 18 and 19 versions Remember that you can always right...
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Waitangi Day
We will be closed Monday February 8th to celebrate Waitangi Day. Held on the 6th of February, Waitangi day is a significant day in New Zealand history. It’s the day the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in...
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Quick Key Tuesday – Highlight Toggle
Today key is: TAB What does it do? Ever wanted to select that slab under your fill, wall or do you keep selecting the roof when you simply want the slab? When you hover over an edge you’ll notice the...
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Visible light beams
Remember when you use the General Light Sources lamps in ArchiCAD you can always activate the effects. One important effect is to display a visible light beam. Using Spot Lights on a stage.
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Duplicate Views in View Map
Be careful when you make views from the Project Map using the right-click Menu – Save View and Place on Layout. If you do this more than once you will get duplicates in your View Map and it will be...
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Story Level Line Display
If you want to change the way story level lines are displayed in your Section\Elevation views, bring up the Section\Elevation settings > Story Levels >Show Story Levels. You can also turn these...
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Quick Key Tuesday – Switch between Pet Palette Items
Press the F key to switch between palette Items in ARCHICAD.
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Quick Find & Select
You can Eye Drop (Atl + left mouse click) on an element to propagate the Find and Select dialogue with that elements criteria. Click the Add button to add more criteria‘s e.g. in this example Fill
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Open and Repair
Do you have a corrupt file? The new Open & Repair function is available in the Open dialogue. This function can fix v17, 18 & 19 damaged pln files in certain cases. Introduced with ARCHICAD 17...
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Update surface from Internal Engine or CineRender
If you make a change in a surface either in CineRender or Internal Engine. It would be a good idea to match these settings so the surfaces look similar in your 3D view and your render image. If you...
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Missing Add-Ons
Lately we noticed that many ArchiCAD files we receive display a missing Add-Ons dialog box at opening. The dialog box means that the file has been migrated from an old version to a newer, likely...
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Quick Key Tuesday – Open the Layout book
F7 will open the layout book. Just like opening the 2D and 3D window.
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Associative Level Dimensions with Gravity.
With the Level Dimensions in ARCHICAD 19, the gravity function has been integrated into the Level Dimension Tool. So if you select the tool, and click on an element (eg. Roof, Slab, etc) it will...
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What are you waiting for?
If you are using the new Schedules Notes tool for Doors and Windows you will know that entering the data gives you 1.5 seconds between one character and the next one to type a description. This is a...
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Crop to Single-Plane Roof
You can still use the old method of cropping the walls to a single roof, used mainly to trim walls in an angle. If you are working in ArchiCAD 18 or older you already know that you can right click the...
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Add attributes for Plant objects
If you search a plan object from Cadimage in BIMComponents you may need to add the attributes for the plants to your project to display the surfaces correctly. To enable the attributes in your...
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Label Doors and Windows ID in elevation or section
If you wish to label the ID or other properties of Doors and Windows in an elevation in ArchiCAD 19 there is a new method. First of all make sure that the label placement method is set to Associated,...
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Quick Key Tuesday – Find & Select
Use the Command + F (MAC) Ctrl + F (WIN) to open the Find & Select.
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