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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

Publisher

In this section, we will take a look at managing the whole publishing workflow, from Viewpoint to View to Layout Book to Publisher Set.

The publishing workflow

We briefly touched upon printing and exporting in Chapter 7, but as you may have guessed by now, Archicad goes much further! The publishing workflow is a complete pipeline to configure information from the model, displayed as part of Views, referenced in Drawings, and placed in Layouts. The final step of this flow is controlling how everything is published or exported.

Publishing can take on several forms:

  • Publishing a Layout Book into a multi-page PDF document or booklet
  • Sending a series of drawings to a large-format printer
  • Generating a package of files for a project milestone

The main idea is straightforward and can be summarized in the following diagram:

Figure 14.27 – The publishing workflow in Archicad

Figure 14.27 – The publishing workflow in Archicad

Figure 14.27 shows how a View is made based...