When you create a new Detail Drawing or Worksheet – you will often see a dashed line boundary appearing. This shows the zone that was initially highlighted in the creation of the document… and the first thing most people do is delete it! However, the next time you rebuild the view, it will come back, and keep coming back! To prevent this, you can uncheck the option in the Work Environment that will prevent the boundary from being created in the first place. To deactivate t

One of the easiest ways to save time and increase productivity in ARCHICAD is to make use of the context-sensitive right-click menu options. One example that can be significantly quicker than the previous version workflow is to select a composite wall / slab / roof then right-click the mouse and choose Edit Selected Composite... as shown below: When the Composites dialog opens, it will even show you the selected Composite settings. In the ‘old days’ you would likely go to Op

If you have used the Marquee Tool, you know it allows you to create cuts through your model… but the limitation of the standard Tool is those cuts will be straight edged. The options for the Marquee Geometry are shown in the InfoBox below: As you can see, there is a Polyline, a Rectangle and a Rotated Rectangle - so how did I manage to create this… Well, I did use a Marquee, but I ‘cheated’ slightly! To create custom shapes with curves as shown above you need to draw a Poly

How many times have you set up and drawn a bunch of Lines then switched to the Arc / Circle Tool only to find it draws with completely different properties? I know this has caught me out hundreds, if not thousands, of times over the past 20 years!! With the following ArchiHACK you need worry no more! If you open the Line, Arc / Circle, Polyline or Spline Tool you will see an option called Uniform Settings for Line Tools at the top of the dialog: Once you activate this (in a