Book Image

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

Changes and adjustments


The Drawing Manager is a helpful tool to organize and track our drawings. You can activate it by clicking on the top-left button in the Navigator palette and selecting Show Drawing Manager.

When you have a layout open with drawings placed on it, the Drawing Manager will highlight the drawings on the active layout in bold letters. This is helpful when you want to identify which drawings you are working with on the current layout. The Drawing Manager allows you to relink a drawing to a different view by clicking on the top-left button and selecting a view from the Link to list. You can also do this by right-clicking on the drawing itself and selecting Link Drawing to from the menu. We will make use of this feature shortly.

If you want to freeze a drawing's state on a layout, you can click on the second button on the top-left part of the panel. This will break the link between the drawing and the referenced view. This is not recommended because you will create a disconnected...