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Using the Find & Select tool
The Find & Select tool is a powerful feature when it comes to making changes, and identifying inconsistencies, particularly in developed projects. When there are hundreds of elements on screen, and elements are in the wrong places, or just with the…
Jenna Durham
10 January 2023 -
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Labelling Zones with the Label Tool
As of ARCHICAD 25 Update 2, you can now label zones directly with the label tool. All you need to do is select the label tool, apply whichever settings you’d like aesthetically for the label, make sure it’s associative, and than…
Myles Taylor
4 January 2023 -
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Zones with Automatic Labels
As of ARCHICAD 25 Update 2, zones have been now given the ability to be automatically labelled on creation. When going to place a zone, you’ll see a new option in your toolbar: If this option is enabled when you go…
Myles Taylor
3 January 2023
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Tips and Tricks
Where is the Quick Options palette?
Have you recently installed ArchiCAD 18 and wondered where the Quick Options palette has gone? In default Work Environments provided by…
Joshua Osborne
4 March 2015 -
Tips and Tricks
Make your Special Snap Points more visible
Sometimes on a detailed drawing, it can be difficult to see where the Special Snap Points are on an element (half…
Joshua Osborne
25 February 2015 -
Tips and Tricks
‘Zoom to Selection’
…this is one of my favourite commands that I use all the time. It is really useful for the following… centring elements…
Joshua Osborne
20 February 2015 -
Tips and Tricks
Do you need to open an old Project?
If you have old project files, you may have trouble opening them in the more recent versions of ArchiCAD. Fortunately Graphisoft…
Joshua Osborne
18 February 2015 -
Tips and Tricks
Count your Polygons!
If you have a project that you find particularly slow to navigate or work in 3D this may be due to…
Joshua Osborne
13 February 2015 -
Tips and Tricks
Save yourself time with the Detail and Worksheet Boundary
How often do you create a Detail or Worksheet and then find you have to delete the boundary that appears? And…
Joshua Osborne
12 February 2015 -
Tips and Tricks
Check Surfaces
If you have missing attributes in your ArchiCAD you can get ArchiCAD to automatically check all of your Surfaces. Simply go…
Jonathan Breen
9 February 2015 -
Tips and Tricks
Get to Toolbox settings quickly
Sometimes it is necessary to change the settings of your Toolbox… for example to add extra Tools or change the order…
Joshua Osborne
6 February 2015 -
Tips and Tricks
Filter your Layers
Layers in ArchiCAD can be sorted by name, extension or status by clicking on any of the column headers… but did…
Joshua Osborne
4 February 2015
