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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

Summary

In this chapter, we completed our exploration of the Archicad output.

First, we dove deep into the different options we store in views: Layer Combinations, Pen Settings, Graphic Overrides, the Renovation Filter, and the Partial Structure Display.

We learned about the powerful Navigator and how it helps us to find all our viewpoints in the Project Map, the View Map with configured Views, the Layout Book with sheets, Layouts, and Master Layouts, and finally, the Publisher Set.

The publishing workflow is a good example of the power of BIM inside Archicad; all output is collected with in a single publishing operation so you don’t have to remember all the different filenames, formats, and the sometimes very extensive export settings.

Within a single set, you can set up any combination of documents, such as a PDF booklet created from different layouts, individual images from a 3D window, or CAD drawings and models generated from selected Views for sharing with...