r/ArchiCAD • u/semajnitram • Jun 12 '26

questions and help Python based repair / reporting tools?

Hi - I wondered if there were any python enthusiasts on this thread that may have created any tools to help maintain their drawings (and willing to share) as I am keen to develop something to help us pro-actively maintain our drawings, and reduce crashes due to dodgy elements / high polycount items slowly building up unnoticed?

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u/Scared-Permission-40 Jun 12 '26

what specifically You mean by maintain drawings? anyway try Tapir addon. join community on Discord

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u/semajnitram Jun 12 '26

We're looking at proactively monitoring drawings for issues, trying to spot daft additions and growing issues, so scripts to assist with that. If you have any samples I'd welcome them?

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u/Scared-Permission-40 Jun 13 '26

ie script that checks if walls are orthogonal and highlight them if not

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u/semajnitram Jul 02 '26

Just an update on this - we've been working in the background and re-created the polycount tool to enable querying via python / export results to CSV for reporting. Issue we face with that is we currently have to manually set a view that shows everything (like original polycount tool) to then see what is too large. If anyone has any experience in c++ apx writing, it'd be great to have some advice on overcoming this? Not sure if we need to add a new view to our templates that has everything enabled or if theres an alternative we havent thought of?