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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

Visualization concepts


Architectural visualization is a large topic, which alone is the focus of many books that are available today. We will have an overview of ArchiCAD's visualization capabilities in order for you to have a basic understanding of them. You can learn more about this subject from various online resources and publications. There are video tutorials available at https://www.youtube.com/user/Archicad about rendering with ArchiCAD.

The purpose of rendering

Rendered views of a proposed building have been important tools for centuries to communicate the design to clients and users. The process of translating the designer's ideas into visual representations is an important early step toward realizing a building. It can secure support for the project or stop it altogether. It requires skills that were traditionally related to hand drawing and painting. Good visualization is based on considering viewpoints, colors, light, shapes, and other basic graphic concepts.

In past decades, the...