INT_AC Training Series Vol 2

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Basic ArchiCAD

ArchiCAD Training Series

Vol. 2


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Credits

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Basic ArchiCAD

(International English Metric Version)

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Contents


CONTENTS

Introduction ___________________________________________ 5

Opening the Project _____________________________________ 7

Navigation in ArchiCAD __________________________________ 9

Multiplying Elements __________________________________10

Creating Curtain Wall System ____________________________14

Modifying Curtain Walls ________________________________18

Creating Interior Walls __________________________________25

Placing Doors _________________________________________32

Mirroring Doors _______________________________________34

Creating Stories _______________________________________36

Creating Flat Roofs _____________________________________38

Creating Parapet Walls _________________________________39

Placing Stairs _________________________________________40

Dimensioning _________________________________________46


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Contents


Automatic Dimensioning _______________________________49

Creating Section Viewpoints ____________________________53

Elevation Dimensioning ________________________________54

Elevation _____________________________________________55

Inserting Background Images ___________________________56

Placing Objects ________________________________________58

Merging Plans _________________________________________62

Rendering ____________________________________________65

Creating 3D Documents ________________________________66Layouting ____________________________________________68

Defining Project Info ___________________________________72

Exporting to PDF ______________________________________73


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Introduction


Introduction

Welcome to the ArchiCAD Training Series!

This Guide is part of the ArchiCAD Training Series, which currently includes the followingmaterials:

Vol. 1, The ArchiCAD BIM Concept

Vol. 2, Basic ArchiCAD

Vol. 3, Intermediate ArchiCAD

Vol. 4, Advanced ArchiCAD

Vol. 5, Using Teamwork

You are now reading Vol. 2, Basic ArchiCAD a comprehensive hands-on training to familiarizeyou with the basic modeling and documentation tools of ArchiCAD. This guide is meant for newArchiCAD users. We strongly recommend that you complete Training Series Vol. 1 before startingthis one.

This guide is also suitable for using as BIM Curriculum Exercises - for Hands-on Practice inuniversities where ArchiCAD is taught to students. Lecturers who would like to use this guide as aBIM Curriculum should visit the educational sites of the GRAPHISOFT website(http://www.graphisoft.com/learning/education/) where, after registration, they will be entitledto obtain a full set of training materials suitable for seminar lectures.

Contents of this guide:

Training guide e-book: The PDF guide includes detailed explanation of every step, with severalscreenshots.

ArchiCAD project file: The preset training file will help your learning process. Preset project viewshelp you to navigate between different steps thus you can focus on the core knowledge.

Movie clips: Narrated movie clips are available on the YouTube channel for GRAPHISOFTArchiCAD (www.youtube.com/user/Archicad) providing step-by-step instructions for each stepof the training guide. The ArchiCAD YouTube Channel can also be accessed from the Help menu

of ArchiCAD. Enter the name of this Training Guide in the search field to locate the related videos.
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Introduction


You must have ArchiCAD 17 or later version installed on your computer to use this guide. This e-book and the movie clips were made with the English language version of ArchiCAD. For yourconveniance we recommend you to download and use the same version for practicing.

If you do not have ArchiCAD yet, please visit https://myarchicad.com/to obtain a free ArchiCADinstaller:

If you are a student, a teacher or a representative of a school, register and download a fullyfunctional Education Version of ArchiCAD for Students and Teachers.

If you are a professional architect, register and download a fully functional 30-day trial versionof ArchiCAD. Projects saved with this TRIAL version can be automatically upgraded to FULLversions upon purchase of a commercial license.

Please contact your local distributor for purchasing commercial ArchiCAD licenses:http://www.graphisoft.com/purchase/

How to use this training material?

Install the required ArchiCAD version.

Open the PDF Guide.

Open the related movie clips from the GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD Youtube Channel. Follow the instructions given in the PDF guide and the videos.

We hope you will find this training useful and wish you success with your future ArchiCADprojects!

Good Luck!

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Opening the Project


Opening the Project

The goal of this training material is to quickly make you familiar with ArchiCADs basic modelling/documentation techniques and the fundamental project organization concepts. In order toshorten the learning curve well start working with predefined project template files, whichalready include the required project defaults, object libraries and element attributes.

Instead of manually defining every parameter of new elements well use the so-called Favoritesfeature of ArchiCAD. Favorites are preset parameter combinations of ArchiCAD tools, which allowyou to store the frequently used building element types in your projects. The project templatefiles used in this training material include the favorites required to complete the modeling steps.

Naturally you may also define these parameter combinations manually in the tool setting dialogs.

Lets start modeling by opening the first template file.

1 Double-click the ArchiCAD application icon on your desktop to start ArchiCAD.

2 The ArchiCAD startup-screen appears, followed by the Start ArchiCAD dialog box, providingvarious options.

3 In the Set up Work Environmentpop-up list, select Standard Profile.

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Opening the Project


Note: ArchiCAD is shipped with three default Profiles: Standard, Visualization andLayouting. These predefined profiles are designed to get you up and running withArchiCAD. Naturally, you or your office CAD manager can reconfigure these profiles

as needed.

4 Select Open a Projectand Browse for a Solo Projectoption, and then click Browseto openan ArchiCAD project file.

5 Select the 01 Pavilion.pln file in the training project folder and click on the Openbutton toopen the file.

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Navigation in ArchiCAD


Navigation in ArchiCAD

At first glance you can see a Slab, a Steel Column, a Section Marker and four Elevation Views inFloor Plan. On the right side of the ArchiCAD interface is the NavigatorPalette (Navigator), a treestructure view that lets you build up the entire logical structure of your project and navigate in it.Here you can create folders, then copy, drag and drop views and other project items dependingon their particular purpose.

Multiplying Elements


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Lets see how we can create multiple copies of an element to speed up the modeling workflow.

1 Select the existing Steel Column in the Floor Plan with the ArrowTool.

2 Select Edit/Move/Mirror a Copymenu command.

3 Define the mirroring axis with two clicks, as if you were drawing a Line.

4 Move the cursor near the middle of the Slabs upper edge, and click when the cursor takes onthe following shape:

(Arrow with Heavy Checkmark).

5 Draw the mirroring axis, while holding down the Shiftkey.

6 Pick up the settings of an existing column. With the shortcut ALT + Click, the cursor willchange to an Eyedropper; click on the column.



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7 Place the two new columns above the Slab.

8 Select all columns while holding down the Shift key and select Edit/Align/Bottommenucommand. All selected elements will be aligned to the bottommost point of the selectedgroup - that is, the bottom column.



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9 To ensure the columns are all distributed evenly, select all columns and use Edit/Distribute/Along Xcommand.

10 Select Edit/Move/Mirror a Copycommand.

11 Define the mirroring axis.

12 The first axis point is the middle of the Slab. Draw the mirroring axis, while holding down theShiftkey.



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13 Open the 3D Window. Press either F3key or select the Window/3D Windowcommand.


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Creating Curtain Wall System


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Go back to the floor plan (F2) and move the cursor to the upper-left corner of the Slab.

Type x6000+and the cursor jumps to the correct position.



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Press Enter, move the cursor down, and click when the cursor takes on the following shape:Pencil point with intersection sign.

Click with the Suncursor to define the outside direction of the Curtain Wall. Here, move the

cursor to the left side of the Curtain Wall and click.



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In the appearing Place Curtain Walldialog box, modify the height of the Curtain Wall to3000mmand click Place.

Create the other three Curtain Walls with the same method according to the first Curtain Walland the sides of the Slab.

Modifying Curtain Walls


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The unnecessary Mullions should be removed from the Curtain Wall.

1 Select the Curtain Wall in Floor plan with the Arrowtool.

2 Then click the Edit in 3Dbutton, which appears on the selected Curtain Wall. Another way toenter Edit mode: select the Curtain Wall, then the Design/ Modify Curtain Wall/Edit Systemcommand.

3 When the Curtain Wall is in editing mode, the model is shown in the 3D window.



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4 Select the middle Mullion frame and delete it.

5 Drag the Mullion frame.

Select the Mullion frame and drag it with the mouse.



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Click when the cursors shape indicates it is at the halfway point of the Boundary frame (Arrowwith Heavy Checkmark).

6 Create a new Mullion frame.

Double-click on Mullion Framein the Favorites palette.

Move the cursor to the middle of the Boundary frame. Draw the Frame upside down while holding down the Shiftkey.



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7 Delete the Frame which is on the right side of the Panel.

8 Replace the middle Panel with a Door.

Select the middle Panel.



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Double-click on CW Door 2in the Favorites palette.

9 When you have completed your modifications of the selected Curtain Wall, click OK in the Editmode Display palette to save changes and return to the 3D window.



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10 Delete the unnecessary Mullion frames of the other three sides, as shown in the pictures.



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Creating Interior Walls


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Continue working on the current project or open02 Pavilion.plnArchiCAD file from the training

project folder.

Lets place the partition walls to create the rooms of the building.

1 Select the Walltool from the Toolbox.

2 Double-click on Wall 200from the Favorites palette.

3 Set the Geometry Method to Rectangularand the Construction Method to inside face.

4 The corner of the new Wall will be 10.500 mm from the left edge of the Slab and 3.400 mmfrom the bottom of the Slab.

5 Move the cursor to the bottom-left corner of the Slab.

6 Type the following: x10500+. (Cursor jumps to the right.)



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7 Type y3400+. The cursor immediately snaps upwards.

8 Press Enterand move the cursor toward the upper right.

9 Define the size of the rectangular wall: x7600and y3600.



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10 Press Enter.

11 You have to edit these walls separately. The solution is to temporarily suspend groups bychoosing the Suspend Grouptoggle icon in the Standard Toolbar, or use the Edit/Grouping/Suspend Groupscommand.



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12 Activate the Arrowtool and select the upper horizontal Wall. Click on theupper side of the Wall and drag it downwards. Hold down the Shiftkey toconstrain mouse movement vertically.

13 Define the distance of offset: r800, then press Enter.

14 Do the same with the other horizontal Wall.

15 Double-click on Wall 100in the Favorites palette.



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16 Choose Single Geometry Method and Center Construction Method(reference line is in themiddle) in the Info Box.

17 Create the new walls so that they divide the existing horizontal wall into three equalsegments. Lets set the Special Snap Pointsto display divisions along elements. Select View/Special Snap Options/Division(3)from Menubar.



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18 Draw two walls; the cursor will show you the trisecting points.



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19 As a final step, we need to erase the middle part of the bottom horizontal wall.

Hold down the CTRL/CMDkey and the cursor changes to Scissors.

Click on the middle part of the Wall.


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Placing Doors


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4 Press Enter.

5 To place the Door, click at the desired opening and swing direction.

Mirroring Doors


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Mirroring Doors

Lets create mirrored copies of the door.

1 To be able to mirror the Door, first you have to set View/Special Snap Optionsback to Half.

2 Select the Door with the Arrowtool.

3 Activate the Edit/Move/Mirror a Copycommand.

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4 Move the cursor near the middle of the upper Wall, and click when the cursor takes on thefollowing shape: .

Creating Stories


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Creating Stories

Continue working on the current project or open 03 Pavilion.pln ArchiCAD file from the training

project folder.Stories are fundamental parts of all ArchiCAD projects. Lets see how to create them.

1 Go to Design/Story Settings.

2 Select Ground Floorand click on the Insert abovecommand.

3 Modify the Story Name to Roof.

4 Click OK.

5 Select the Ground Floor from the Navigator and right-click to bring up its context menu.6 Choose Show as Trace Reference.

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Note:Trace Reference allows you to display different model views or layouts in thecontext of the active view. This feature helps you to check the consistency of yourdocumentation and your model.

7 You can see the Elements of the Ground Floor in the Roof story.

Creating Flat Roofs

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Creating Flat Roofs

Well model the flat roof of the pavilion using the Slabtool.

1 Activate the Slabtool.

2 Select Flat Rooffrom the Favorites palette.

3 Create the Flat Roof with the Magic Wand:

Hold down the Spacekey and the cursor changes to the Magic Wand.

Click on the inside of the Ground Floors Slab.

Creating Parapet Walls

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Creating Parapet Walls

Well use profiled walls to model the Parapet Walls of the flat roof. The profile of the Parapet Wall

has already been defined in the default project template file with the Profile Manager. (The use ofthe Profile Manager is explained in the Advanced ArchiCAD Training Guide.)

1 Select the Walltool.

2 Double-click on Parapet Wallin the list of Favorites.

3 Hold down the Spacekey and when the cursor changes to the Magic Wand, click on theinside of the Ground Floors Slab.

Placing Stairs

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Placing Stairs

Lets create a simple straight-run stair with StairMaker, the built-in stair-modeling tool of

ArchiCAD.1 Double-click on the Ground Floorin the Navigator palette.

2 Open the Stairdialog box from the Toolbox.

3 Select the Create Staircommand.

Placing Stairs

4 In the appearing dialog box set the type of the Stair to Straight Run and click on the OK


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4 In the appearing dialog box set the type of the Stair to Straight Run and click on the OKbutton.


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Placing Stairs

Railing type: No Railings.


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Railing type: No Railings.

Placing Stairs

Finally, you have to define the type of the 2D View.


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6 If you have completed the above tasks, click Save Asto give it a name: Pavilion Stair. TheStair is saved in your Embedded Library.

7 Double-click on the Stairtool and select thePavilion Stair.

8 Move the cursor inside the Preview Area: the cursor changes to a rotate arrow. Rotate the2D Symbol to the required position. Define the primary hotspot of the Stair; this will be its left-upper point.

Placing Stairs

9 Modify the Relative Base Height to -1500 mm.


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10 The Anchor point of the Stair is 2000 mm from the bottom-left corner of the Slab. Move thecursor to the corner and type x2000+. The cursor jumps to the appropriate position.

11 Press the Enterkey.

Dimensioning

Dimensioning


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Dimensioning

Continue working on the current project or open04 Pavilion.plnArchiCAD file from the training

project folder.Well add basic wall dimensions to the project on the floor plan.

1 Choose the Dimension Tool from the Toolbar.

2 Select Dim (2.5)from the Favorites palette.

3 Set the Geometry Method to X-Y Only in the Info Box.

4 Click on the upper-left corner of the vertical wall, then the bottom-right corner of the othervertical wall. You can see two reference points.

Dimensioning

5 In order to finish the dimensioning you have to double-click on an empty space area.


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6 The next step is to move the Hammer cursor to the position where you want to place thedimension line.

7 Click on the side of the vertical walls. Two reference points will appear on each wall.

Dimensioning

8 Double-click on an empty space and move the Hammer cursor to the position where yout t l th di i li


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want to place the dimension line.

Automatic Dimensioning



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Automatic dimensioning is a very powerful tool that allows you to apply the most typical

dimensions on the floor plan views with only a few clicks.1 Select all Walls:

Activate the Walltool.

Choose Edit/Select All Wallscommand.

2 Click on Document/Document Extras/Automatic Dimensioning/Exterior Dimensioning

command.


3 Define the appropriate preferences for the dimensioning.


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4 Click OK.

5 Define the direction of the dimension lines. You can do this in one two ways:

Click the side edge of an existing Wall (the dimension direction will follow the Wall direction);

Click in an empty area, and then click a second time to define the dimension direction.


6 Click with the Hammercursor to place the dimension lines.


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7 Delete the unnecessary dimension lines.

8 Insert new Dimension points:

Select the Dimension line with the Arrowtool.

Then, with the Dimension Tool selected, CTRL/CMD-clickon the desired new ReferencePoint. The new point can be located between existing chain points or anywhere outside thedimension chain.

9 Create new Dimensions to the Slab and the Stair.


10 The final result should be similar to the one in this picture.


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Creating Section Viewpoints

Creating Section Viewpoints


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Creating new section markers and section views is easy with ArchiCADs SectionTool.

1 Activate the Sectiontool.

2 Set the Horizontal Range to Infinite Depthand choose the SingleGeometry Method fromthe Info Box. Set S-02 as ID.

3 Click twice to define both ends of the Section.

4 Click on the right side of the line with the eyeball cursor to set the orientation of the Section.

5 Open the New Section from the Navigator palette. The new Section viewpoint is created andlisted automatically in the Navigator Project Map.

Elevation Dimensioning

Elevation Dimensioning


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Elevation Dimensions allow you to place height markers in Section/Elevation/IE and 3DDocument windows.

6 Activate S/E Dim. (2.5)from the Favorites palette.

7 Open the elevations, and place individual markers by clicking the points that you want todimension, then Double-clickor click OKin the Control Box. Use the Hammer cursor toposition the marker.

Elevation

Elevation


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Working with Elevations is very similar to Sections. The process is explained in the previouschapter.

1 Open the South ElevationView from the Navigator palette.

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We can improve the elevation view by adding a realistic background image behind it.

1 Double-click on the Figuretool.

2 Click the Openbutton to browse the directory system for image files. SelectSky_cloudy2_photo.jpgfile from the ArchiCAD Library/ [BImg] Background Images /Photos 1024x768 folder.

3 Set the bottom-left Anchor point.

4 Click OK.

5 Place the Figure with a single click.


6 Resize the image by using the Pet palette.


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Placing Objects

Placing Objects


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ArchiCAD is shipped with an extensive parametric object library, which helps you to quicklyimprove your model and documentation. Lets place a few tree objects on the elevations.

1 Open the Object Default Settingsby double-clicking on the Objecttool.

2 Browse for a Tree object from the linked library. There are two ways to do it:

Select the tree object from the ArchiCAD Library /Basic Library /1.7 2D Elements / PlantSymbols folder.

Choose the Find Library Partsoption to locate library parts by name using keywords in a

search engine. Type the tree keyword and press the Findbutton.

3 Select the preferred Treeobject.

4 Open the Tree Elevation Styles area, and select Style 3. Click OK.

5 Place the tree object in the Elevation View.

Placing Objects

6 You have to position the tree object behind the building. To do this, you must change thedisplay order of the object.


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7 Select the object.

Option 1: Choose the Edit/Display Order/Send Backwardcommand. You may have to runthis command twice to achieve the appropriate result.

Option 2:Right-click to bring up the elements context menu, then select the Display Order/Send Backwardcommand twice.

Placing Objects

8 Create a copy of the tree object. Activate either the Edit/Move/Drag a Copycommand or useCTRL + Shift + D (Windows)/CMD + Alt + D (Mac) shortcuts.


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9 Replace the type of the tree: double-click on the Objecttool and select another tree objectfrom the folder.

Placing Objects

10 Place the new 2D People Symbolsin the Elevation View.


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Merging Plans

Merging Plans


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The furniture layout is already available in an external ArchiCAD module file. Well merge it intoour project to shorten the documentation and modeling time.

Note:You can learn more about ArchiCAD modules in other volumes of thistraining guide series.

11 Activate the Ground Floor view from the Navigator palette.

12 Select File/File Special/Mergecommand.

Merging Plans

13 Click Choose Hotlink, and browse for the Furnishing_Plan.modfile and click Open.


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Click OKin the Choose Hotlinkdialog. Click Place module.

Merging Plans

14 Until the file is placed, its elements will be surrounded by a dashed rectangle. Click within therectangle to move the elements to the desired position. Click outside or click OKfrom thecontext menu (or the Control Box) to place the elements. Enable showing and unlocking


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layers, if necessary.

Rendering

Rendering

ArchiCAD offers you various visualization modes to present your design to your customers. You


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ArchiCAD offers you various visualization modes to present your design to your customers. Youcan select from two predefined Rendering Settings from the Navigator palette: the first uses the

LightWorks Rendering Engine, while the second works with the Sketch Engine.

Creating 3D Documents


The 3D document is a unique ArchiCAD feature that presents your models with annotations in a


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The 3D document is a unique ArchiCAD feature that presents your models with annotations in a3D perspective or axonometric view. The 3D Document allows you to use the 3D view of the

model as the basis for creating a document, to which you can add dimensions, labels andadditional 2D drawing elements.

1 Open the 3D-01 Documentfrom the Navigator palette.

2 Select the Dimensiontool.

3 Activate Dim (2.5)from the Favorites palette.

4 Set the position of the Text to Top.

5 Choose the Dimension Plane from the Info Box:

Horizontal, Vertical, Free Plane


6 Set the Geometry Method:

X-Y Only, Any Direction


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7 Place individual markers by clicking the points that you want to dimension, then Double-clickor click OKin the Control Box. Use the Hammer cursor to position the marker.

Layouting

Layouting

Continue working on the current project or open 05 Pavilion.pln ArchiCAD file from the training


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Continue working on the current project or open05 Pavilion.plnArchiCAD file from the trainingproject folder.

The final documentation layouts are available in the Layout Book. Lets see how to complete yourdocumentation in ArchiCAD.

1 Activate the NavigatorsLayout Book.

2 Double-click on the A.01 Pavilion Layout.

3 Switch to the Navigator View Map, which is the second button in the Navigator palette.

Layouting

4 Dragthe 0. Ground Floorfrom the Floor Plans folder and dropit onto the Layout.


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5 Modify the placed layout by using the Pet palette. Move the layout to the upper-right corner.

Layouting

6 If you do not want to place the drawings one by one, select the Show Organizercommandfrom the Project Chooserat the top left of the Navigator.


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7 Choose the View Mapin the left side of the Navigator and the Layout Bookin the right side.

8 Select each Elevation in the View Mapand drag them into the A.01 Pavilion Layout.

Layouting

9 Place the other drawings (Sections, Roof, Rendering) onto the Layout and arrange them intothe correct position.


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Defining Project Info

Defining Project Info

ArchiCAD can automatically display Project Info data on all sheets of the layout book. This


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solution will significantly reduce the time spent on project documentation.

1 Open the File/Info/Project infodialog box, which contains the most important informationabout your project.

2 If you fill in these fields with the necessary data, the text on the layouts will changeautomatically.


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Exporting to PDF

8 Click on the Publishbutton.


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Congratulations!

You have successfully completed this Training Guide! We hope that you have learned many newand exciting things about the possibilities of BIM and understood how ArchiCAD supports thearchitectural design workflow. Please check the other volumes of this training series for moredetails about ArchiCAD.

Should you have any questions regarding ArchiCAD or other GRAPHISOFT products, please visitGraphisoft Help Center, our online knowledge base: http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/.

Please feel free to contact GRAPHISOFT and its worldwide partners with further questions atwww.graphisoft.com.

We look forward to seeing you in the ArchiCAD user community.

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