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ArchiCAD 19 - The Definitive Guide

By : Adam R Rendek, Scott H MacKenzie
Book Image

ArchiCAD 19 - The Definitive Guide

By: Adam R Rendek, Scott H MacKenzie

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Objects, Drafting, and Annotation – A Residential Project
3
Documentation – A Residential Project
4
Project Setup and Modeling Part 1 – A Healthcare Building Project
Index

Creating zones


Creating all the zones in our building is a big and important task. The zones will represent the rooms in your building. Each zone contains the identity data that defines a room. You could think of them as room objects. The Xref files that we attached in Chapter 5, Project Setup and Modeling Part 2 – A Healthcare Building Project, have the room names in them to help you identify specific room types.

Be sure that all your walls are cleanly connected and that there are no gaps. We are going to use the Magic Wand tool to automatically create the zone boundaries. Otherwise, we could manually draw a boundary for each room, but that would take too much time. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Renovation palette and make sure that Default elements is set to 04 New Construction. To open the Renovation palette, navigate to Window | Palettes | Renovation.

  2. Open the 1st FLOOR PLAN from the view map under Construction Documentation\Floor Plans. Then, zoom in on the upper-left...