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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

View setup


The first thing we need to make sure of is that our view settings are correct. This will define the look of our printout as well as help us keep a clean and organized set. You can access the View Settings dialog box by selecting a view in the Navigator palette and clicking on the Settings button at the bottom of Navigator. You can also right-click on a view in Navigator and select View Settings from the drop-down menu.

The View Settings dialog box consists of several areas, which are covered in the following sections.

Identification

Here, you can set the ID and Name of the view and also see the Source of the view. The ID and Name fields are the same as the first two fields in the Properties panel, at the bottom of the Navigator palette, once a view is selected; but here, we can adjust the ID and the name more specifically.

You can choose the ID and name to be based on the project map, which will follow them automatically as they are established in the project map. You can also specify...