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A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad

By : Stefan Boeykens, Ruben Van de Walle
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A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad

By: Stefan Boeykens, Ruben Van de Walle

Overview of this book

A BIM Professional’s Guide to Learning Archicad is a comprehensive introduction to all that Archicad has to offer for creating 3D models, 2D document extracts, and related outputs. This book is not a click-by-click series of recipes, but rather focuses on helping you understand why and how Archicad works by providing realistic examples and expert tips. The book gradually introduces you to Archicad tools using ample examples. It then helps you master its complexity through clear modules, allowing you to start your first project quickly, gain useful skills in subsequent projects, and keep using the book as a source for insights into the software. You’ll start with the basic modeling of construction elements and then move on to adding roofs, stairs, and objects to the project. Next, you’ll dive into basic drafting and 2D views for creating 2D output, and grasp how to use attributes and more advanced modeling tools for designing curtain walls and sites. The concluding chapters will show you how to extract and visualize your data and automate the publishing of your extracts and 2D documents into a variety of output formats. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of Archicad, how to implement it efficiently in your architectural projects, and how BIM can improve your overall design workflow.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Archicad – Project Setup and Essential Modeling Tools for Your First Residential Project
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Part 2: Becoming an Archicad Professional – Learn About Archicad Tools and Settings to Create and Publish Any Type of Project in Full Detail

Using Schedules for information extraction

A BIM is more than a collection of 2D drawings and 3D elements. In the database of the model, there is also all the information about the quantities, dimensions, names, renovation status, load-bearing functions, and so on of all elements that are added to it. The output of our model can, therefore, also consist of Schedules and preparations for a bill of quantities (BOQ). In a well-organized model, this output can even exceed the input (and this should always be the aim, as attaining an improved overall workflow should be one of the reasons to start using a BIM). On the other hand, sufficient and correct input is a prerequisite for generating useful output. In this chapter, we will look at how Schedules

can help us improve the model and how the quantities of the materials used can be retrieved from the model. For this, we will start from the examples that are available in the Archicad 25 Template and try to adapt them to our wishes.

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