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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 final chapter of Part 1, we introduced the creation of annotations such as text and dimensions and added information derived directly from our BIM using labels. We also showed you how you can include a CAD drawing in your project and how to send a drawing to a printer or export it as a PDF file.

With this, we conclude the first part of this book. You may not feel like an Archicad expert just yet, but we have covered quite some ground: you are familiar by now with modeling, drafting, and using a variety of Archicad commands and parametric objects. You have also learned how to extract a drawing from a model. With these skills, you can effectively start with Archicad in a construction project and produce usable drawings.

In the next part of the book, we bring everything to a higher level to become a professional Archicad user and learn about many more of the extensive features of Archicad.

This would be the perfect time to take a break and practice what you learned...