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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

Automating the Publication of BIM Extracts

Even with the use of models, we still need to manage the production of derived (2D or 3D) documents, such as floor or ceiling plans, sections, elevations, schedules, and even exports into other formats such as PDF or XLSX. Archicad provides an elaborate publishing workflow that allows you to fully prepare a complete package of deliverables, even when there are last-minute changes in the model. With one click, you can regenerate any number of documents from the model, all in sync and in a wide variety of file formats. This chapter focuses on this overall process.

So, in this chapter, we will further explore how we can create a set of (printed) documents (for an introduction, see Chapter 7, in the Basic export and printing (output) section), based on our 3D BIM. Finally, it is necessary to know how to get our design into a drawing we can print or send to others as a PDF or DWG file. We will distinguish between printing directly and using...