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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 introduced the tools required for the creation of 2D content. We added Section and Elevation viewpoints, which help you to reuse the 3D model for creating construction drawings and other 2D documents. We also looked at the independent worksheet, which can be used when you don’t want to draw in one of the model Viewpoints. Since Archicad is effectively a complete CAD drafting software, we introduced the creation of 2D drafting elements using lines and fills, and learned the basic concepts of the Archicad attributes – the elementary particles that create the whole Archicad universe. We will get back to the attributes in the first chapter of the second part, but let us first finish this part in the next chapter by adding annotations and dimensions. We will then be ready to print the 2D output of our first project or export the result to PDF.