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What determines whether a material is transparent in Elevation?
You will notice several different Glass materials in standard ArchiCAD For example Glass Clear appears transparent in 3D and Elevation (when transparency is turned on) But Glass-Blue is...
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ArchiCAD Stairs not recognised in Solibri
If you are running BIM Validation checking in Solibri and your Stairs are being reported as having No Construction Type check your IFC properties in ArchiCAD. In the Tags and Categories > IFC...
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Alternative ways to select the arrow tool
When you are on a tool you will need to hold down the shift key to select an item, this temporarily turns on the Arrow tool You may often find yourself using the shift quite often and may want it...
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Setting your roof Spring point
When setting up your roof, make sure that you put your spring /pivot point in the right place for the type of roof that you use. Especially if you have strict boundary requirements. In the image below,...
View ArticleThe Electrical schedules have been updated and improved
We noticed that the interactive schedule criteria for the Electrical schedules & legends wasnt being remembered fully when exported The reason for this was part of the criteria included mention of...
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Keeping track of changes
All projects change, clients changing their minds etc, We all know this happens, There is generally no way to avoid it. The good folks at Graphisoft are aware of this and have built in a handy little...
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Place a Wall Plate on a Cabinet
If you place a Cadimage Electrical wall plate near a wall, it will snap to the wall. Usually this is extremely helpful, but in some cases you may not want this to happen. For example, you might want to...
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Ceiling Fan
Need a ceiling fan for your electrical layouts? A quick search of the online objects will reveal that a number of free ceiling fan objects are currently available. Double-click on the Object tool in...
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Patterson Associates : Geyser
There’s a nice piece on Architecture Now, about the Geyser building in Parnell, designed by Patterson Associates. Read the Article here. I highly recommend viewing the Gallery too.
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Match Hip and Ridge Flashings
The Cadimage Roof Covering can add profiled claddings, gutters + downpipes, soffits, edge boards and flashings to an ArchiCAD roof. Sometimes you may want the ridge and barge flashings to differ (say a...
View ArticleShortcuts you didnt know about…
When ArchiCAD was first done a lot of the shortcuts used in Wordpad would work in ArchiCAD This has changed over time but a some of them still do, here are some which come in handy CTRL+Backspace –...
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Control what you see in your trace reference
Did you know you can turn off certain elements when using Trace Reference By default some items like dimensions are turned off so the same process can be used to turn them on To do this activate the...
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Some shortkeys that are free to add your own
As a way to improve producitivity there are some useful ways to quickly complete tasks Shortkeys is the obvious choice, but dont you wish there was some shortkeys for the functions you use most Heres a...
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Happy Holidays from Cadimage
Thanks everyone for your support this year! As you might expect, we’ll be shutting down over the Christmas break – the office will be closing on the 21st of December until the 7th of January. For that...
View ArticleRemember the Forum and help each other during the holidays
The Cadimage office will be closed over the christmas holidays If you do have any issues have a look through our Forum to see if these have been covered before: http://helpdesk.cadimage.com/forums...
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How to offset components of a wall plate
Sometimes there may not be enough room along a wall to fit all of the components: So instead of stacking them side by side you can offset them from a wall as well Simple select the components you want...
View ArticleJava – useful information
ArchiCAD relies heavily on Java, it is installed with the disc, this version is the one that Graphisoft have extensively tested and is certified ‘compatible’ You can also find these versions here:...
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Back to work
Hope everyone had a great holiday! Time to return to work The Cadimage office is now back in full swing after last week with only a few staff We are working our way through support but we are now...
View ArticleAcquisition of Encina and formation of Cadimage UK Limited
Press Release Auckland, New Zealand and Bristol, United Kingdom, Monday January 14th 2013. Cadimage Group Limited of Auckland, New Zealand, today announces the acquisition of Encina and the formation...
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Remove Labels from Electrical Symbols
When you first install the Cadimage Electrical tool, wall plate and component symbols that you place in the project will display a label. For wall plates, the label shows the product code and a code...
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