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Place a mesh from Surveyors Data
If you have a coordinates file with the points of the site mesh either as a text file (txt) or xyz. You can place that mesh easily in ArchiCAD: ARCHICAD 20 File>Interoperability>Place Mesh from...
View ArticleInstrumental Building
An easter egg for the BIMx App on iOS device’s only. To activate. Open the 3D, give your device a shake and wait for the whipping sound. After the whip, touch the different Building Elements and...
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Fascia Edge position
The Cadimage Roof Coverings tool now has the option to edit the position of the Fascia Edge in the settings For ARCHICAD 20 For ARCHICAD 19
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Flip Covering
If you place a Cadimage Covering in a wall and wish you had placed it on the other side of the wall, you can change the size with the new feature: For ARCHICAD 20 For ArchiCAD 19 and older
View ArticleAC20 Online Test
Want to test your knowledge of ARCHICAD? Want to know the areas where you or your staff could improve? Graphisoft have a 50 question, multi choice online test for ARCHICAD 20 & 19...
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Wall Coverings below openings
When you place a Wall Covering on a Wall with Openings set at the base of the wall (0mm / 0″) you may see some problems. If the Covering is not configured correctly, the Cladding will fail to extend...
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Quick Key Tuesday: Favorite Popup (AC 20)
home button opens the favorite pop up for the currently active tool in the tool box
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Extending the Wall Covering below wall base.
In ArchiCAD 17 you can easily extend your Wall Covering below wall base by adding a negative value to the Base Shape setting. For ArchiCAD 19 and older For ARCHICAD 20
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Show your Area
If you want to quickly work out and show the area of a space all you need to do is draw a Fill and activate the Show Area Text option…
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Lock your Grid Layer
When you have finished creating your Grids, Lock the Layer in ALL your Layer Combinations, which will make it very difficult to accidentally edit its position.
View ArticleQuick Key Tuesday: Save View and Place on Drawing.
MAC: Shift + F7 WIN: Alt + F7 This allows you to quickly place a drawing onto a layout sheet if you haven’t already saved the view in your view map. Ideal for elevation, sections, details &...
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Cadimage Profile icons in the Toolbox (Work Environment)
If you are looking for the Tools in the Toolbox in ARCHICAD 18-20 – these can be added quickly by installing the Cadimage Work Environment via the Cadimage Installer… It’s likely you have installed...
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Option to Show Dimension Text Only in ARCHICAD 20
Use this option to display the dimension text only, without any lines. This checkbox is available for linear, radial and angle dimensions, to comply with some local standards. You can display a...
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New Backgrounds When Saving BIMx Model in ARCHICAD 20
If you save BIMx Hyper-model from Publisher, you can now choose among different backgrounds: Gradient, Black, Gray, White and the earlier Skybox.
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Quick Key Tuesday: 3D Explore Information
When using the 3D explore use Shift to “sprint” and + / – to increase / decrease the speed.
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New Smooth Method for Adding Schedule Parameters in ARCHICAD 20
When clicking on Add Fields…, a pop up window with a search field will appear. Double-click the needed parameter to add it to the fields – after this, the window stays open, so you can continue adding...
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New Parameter in Skin List Label in ARCHICAD 20
Thickness parameter can be turned on and off (previously was always visible).
View ArticleLibrary Manager Improvements for ARCHICAD 20
No character limit for the file path in the Library Manager, on Windows operating systems. Now it is possible to clean up and manage the Hotlink-related Embedded Library folders in the Library...
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Automatically Check Status of All Hotlinks in Hotlink Manager in ARCHICAD 20
In Work Environment, under Data Safety & Integrity, you have this option: Automatically Check Status of All Hotlinks in Hotlink Manager. It is checked by default. In projects with many hotlinks,...
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