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Showing Object Contours in 3D
If you want to show Contour lines in 3D go to View>3D View Options>3D Window Settings, set Contours to Draft or Best. NOTE: Contour Lines in ArchiCAD are not ‘ground’ contour lines, they are the...
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Cursor Geometry Methods
Did you know you can change the shape of the cursor geometry? The standard method is a rectangle (unless you click on individual elements) which is not always suitable. If you select the Arrow Tool...
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Keynotes Change Case
Change case allows the user to set the case for the title and description of keynotes (as a preference) and to specify exceptions, e.g. all uppercase except for the letters ‘mm’ following a number (so...
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Launch new instance of recently open projects
In the More Options under Work Environment select the “Launch new instance of ARCHICAD when opening a project from the recent list or by dragging onto a running ARCHICAD”
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How to turn on the Model Override Surface in the tool settings.
Open the Tool Setting Dialog Boxes (Options > Work Environment > Tool Setting Dialog Boxes) Select the tool you wish to turn on Model Override Surface Turn the Model eye to open Click OK
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More information about the Spell Checker in ARCHICAD
The Document > Annotation > Spell Checker command allows you to check the spelling of your ARCHICAD project. Just click on ‘Start’ in the Spell Checker Palette to locate the misspelled words. On...
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Cadimage will be closed Monday 5th June Support queries can be logged during this time, and we will respond when we reopen on Tuesday the 6th. You may find the answer to your question via one of the...
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ArchiCAD Licence information
Sometimes you need to know the build number of ArchiCAD you are running, or the build of the library or even what licence number (keyplug / dongle) you are using. This is important information to...
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Level Dimension reference
If you are using the Level Dimension tool for your Site or the Project Levels in plan view, you can change how the Level Dimensions refer to if you select the text of the already selected level, open...
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Grid Display and the Editing Plane
One of the questions I get asked frequently while training people and on the support desk is how to turn off the Editing Plane and how to change the Grid display. These are both quite simple things to...
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Story Settings
When setting up your project, try to avoid using negative stories. We should have our mesh created on the Zero story and the first constructed floor goes on Story one. The number of the Story really...
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Minimal Spaces
Did you know that the Cadimage Door and Window Tool can show minimal space requirements around doors? This is for ArchiCAD 20 and 21 This is for ArchiCAD 19 Especially handy when designing things...
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Customer Experience Improvement Program
We make sure to tell our users that in order for us to improve the quality of our tools, we need feedback on how you use them. The good folks at Graphisoft need the same form of feedback in order to...
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Create a floor finishes schedule
If you have placed Zones in your Building using specific cover fills, you can create a simple Floor Finishes Schedule by using the following settings. First create a new Schedule, Document>Schedules...
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Mesh Ridge Sharpness
In the Mesh tool we have 3 options under the Model Tab. If we start of with All Ridges Sharp, we can see that the mesh becomes very triangulated. This is the simplest form for the computer to...
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Give it a meaning!
Did you know that walls can be defined in more ways than just length, height and width? If we open the Tags and Categories section of the wall properties dialog box, we can define the Structural...
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Differentiating between joists and blocking
A common frustration when using the beam tool is how to get the beams to show separately to blocking set between. No doubt we are all familiar with this We can now use the Floor Plan 3D document to...
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Uniform Settings for Line Tools
The Uniform Settings for Line Tools checkbox allows you to apply the settings made in this dialog box to all line-type tools : Line, Arc/Circle, Spline, Polyline. With the Uniform Settings for Line...
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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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What are you waiting for?
If you are using 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 setting...
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