Archicad Full Screen

[Brian Scarano]

for 10 minutes before user can do anything.

This is because it tries to list all recent files including .mod files.

I figured how to clear the list, or to skip the open screen all-together, but that's a nasty workaround, not a solution.

Could we please have an option to turn Open screen with recent projects it off?

At least give us an option to NOT LIST .mod files there.

Nobody in ther right mind should ever directly open .mod files.

Users generally should not even know that .mod files exist as a phisical openable file!

I found an older thread about this, but the solution was an OS compatibility issue which was resolved at the time. 4 years later, with a whole new OS and a whole new AC version, I'm having this issue for the first time and at a loss as to how it can be fixed.

When I try to open a 3D window, I get a red screen, and ArchiCAD crashes. Or rather it stops responding to any attempts to change the model view, or any further drawing tools in 2D windows. I tried updating both AC and my OS, but that didn't fix the problem. I was able to temporary solve it by using a different user account on my mac, but then it happened again and AC is basically useless. After force-quitting and re-opening the same file, I still can't do anything, within seconds, it crashes again.

Unverified theories of the cause relate to changing to a 3D view with elements selected in the view you are leaving or providing input (mouse or keyboard) before the 3D view has stabilised including background calculations.

Here are some posts about it. You may find some tips to improve the situation (e.g., turning off 3D Antialiasing), but in the end, there is no fix available at the moment. This is really disheartening...

Thank you both for your warm welcome to the club that I did not want to be part of (isn't there a Marx. Bros. quote about this?), and the extensive links to threads that I could not find in my initial forum searches.

How do you get the info box to be vertical and rectangular instead of horizontal, skinny, and stupid? Grab a corner with the mouse and reshape it. Just like I did with the toolbox in the video (and forgot to do with the info box).

Great information. I too have adjusted my WE in many ways but not having the info box and navigator stretched in that way. I will look into this and see how it will benefit my workflow. I too have a few machines to manage with different screen sizes so I can empathize with those of you who have to deal with this also. Keep up the great work!

Hello. I am using the educational Archicad 17 on macbook and I have some issues. All my toolbars are separated and to close the whole program i have to click on all X to close. Is there any way to link all the toolbars together? please help

For some who may not know how to do this, it's not something you need to model. It can be done by just applying the correct Surface to a very thin Morph. The effect is that the Surface will cut the holes in the screen.

Repitition of small textures is a non issue. Texture size (and resolution* ) is the only thing that matters. What I found out lately is that using many textures with dimensions above 1K will slow down Archicad massively in the 3D viewport. Better to avoid that.

The issue is that graphic drivers (and cards) do not properly support textures in other dimensions. That means internally the texture will always be a power of two, no matter what, it kinda just get expanded, so to speak. So for obvious reasons avoid that as well.

I am wondering, based on your experience, does the fact that the texture is so small (64x64 px) potentially slow things down in 3D when there are many element to which this surface is applied? You know, because in that case, there would be thousands upon thousands of this 64x64 texture tile generated in 3D.

It would theoretically slow down the program less than if it were geometry, and a whole lot faster than modeling the wires. Try it yourself by opening the provided .pla in the link above. You can copy and paste it into a different file and the Surface/Texture will automatically be in the Embedded Library. (for those who may not know that).

The thing is, to apply the screen Surface/Texture would be a very rare thing to do. Probably for just some special view or screenshot. Regardless of any possible slowdowns or not (which I have not seen), you would probably switch back to some other invisible Surface/Texture for most situations, and/or have the Mesh it's applied to on a layer you toggle on or off.

When you import the .3ds file to ArchiCAD (File / Interoperability / 3D Studio) and it is converted into a .gdl object, - the image files for the screen are automatically added to the Embedded Library.

I recently installed Archicad 27 on my brand new PC, and I'm encountering an issue with the software. The welcome screen opens without any problems, but when I click the "New" button, the mouse cursor starts spinning for several minutes. I've checked the processes in the task manager, and it appears that Archicad and its subprocesses are running, but the CPU usage remains low. Eventually, Archicad does open, but it takes an unusually long time.

I've searched for a solution, but I can't seem to find a logical answer to why the welcome screen is freezing. If anyone has encountered a similar problem or has suggestions on how to resolve this issue, I would greatly appreciate your help.

While examining the Windows system logs, I came across an error related to Codemeter. The error indicates that the Codemeter service couldn't start automatically and returned error code 1503. I attempted to repair Codemeter, but it didn't resolve the issue. Since I'm using an educational license, I don't actually need Codemeter, so I uninstalled it. After doing so, Archicad is now functioning properly without any problems.

Just to double-check that we're on the same page: did you open the Details tab, look for Archicad Starter.exe and click End task it? Most of the time this should resolve freezing at start-up issue. Screenshot attached (for Windows 10, but the same applies for Windows 11). If this doesn't work, then unfortunately I run out of idea, you may want to check with your local support. Seems like there were several reports of Archicad 27 freezing lately

Now, if i switch from model space to layout space, bingo, the drawing appears. I immediately thought that the different layers of the drawing, all set to black, logically couldn't appear on the screen. So i went back into model space to change the colors of the different layers, but still nothing appears ( but in the layout space, the color changes in the layers is apparent).

Also in Modelspace, try SELECT > ALL. If it's zoomed out so far that you can't see anything, you might be able to see the grips or something else highlight. Better yet, in Paperspace, activate a viewport and select an object, hit copy or move or something but cancel the command. Then switch to Modelspace and ZOOM > OBJECT > PREVIOUS. That will locate some of your items. But it's likely that there are objects floating around in Modelspace. You can Wblock the items you want to keep to a separate file.

Typically, objects are drawn in Modelspace. In Paperspace you create Viewports, essentially Windows to the Modelspace. My thought is that the Archicad exports objects to Paperspace instead of Modelspace. I think there might not be anything at all in your Modelspace.

how big is the file? It might be able to be uploaded directly on here using "Go Advanced" below. Or since you can select some objects, erase a bunch to bring the file size down. Just leave a few things for the example.

Um, there is a simple answer for this. You can't see it in Model space because it it black and the lineweights are all black, hence you cannot see a black line drawing on a black screen. Since paper space is white background, you can see the black line drawing. So change the background color in model space to gray or lighter than black.

ARCHICAD supports perfect high resolution display on macOS platform since version 20. Since then the preferred source image format of icon resources is vector graphic (SVG) and that allows that the system can scale the whole user interface without making it blurry.

On HDPI displays running legacy applications without scaling will result in UI elements being too small. To take advantage of high resolution displays applications need to be scaled. Scaling can be performed either by the operating system or by the application.

In the past Microsoft, usually made legacy applications available to run on the newest Windows systems. For these applications Windows performs the scaling. This resulted in admissible sized UI elements with one noticeable drawback: blurry look.

To help achieve a good looking UI a new HDPI API has been provided by Microsoft. This allows developers to control how their new applications resize their UI. This API was introduced with Windows 8.1, and it has been continuously improved in the Windows 10 updates.

From Windows XP to Windows 8, Windows operated on a system-wide DPI.

Windows 8.1 introduced per-monitor DPI. On logon, Windows selects the optimal DPI for each monitor of the system. Users can still override these DPI values in Control Panel.

From Windows 8.1, desktop applications fall into three categories with respect to DPI:

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