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ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide
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ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide
Scott H. MacKenzie, Adam Rendek
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About This Book
About This Book
- Create a house and a commercial office building in a virtual 3D environment
- Strategically placed best practice tips to help you create better and exciting models
- Step-by-step tutorial, covering the advanced tools and features of ArchiCAD while creating two complete construction projects
Who This Book Is For
This book is for architects, architectural technicians, and construction professionals who are familiar with 2D CAD programs such as AutoCAD Lite, or have some exposure to a 3D BIM package such as Revit. No experience with ArchiCAD is required. If you want to learn the skills needed for architectural drawing production in the real world, then this book is for you.
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Project Setup and Modeling a Residential Project
The ArchiCAD GUI
Panning and Zooming
View toggling
Project setup
Project Settings
Stories
Units
Renovation filters
Selection methods
Single cursor click
Window
Marquee
The Find & Select tool
Modification commands
Modeling – part I
Setting the Renovation Filter
Using the Wall tool
Creating the exterior walls of the first story
Creating the first story's floor with the Slab tool
Creating the exterior walls and floor slabs for the basement and the second story
Basement element modification
Adding the garage
Modeling – part II
Second floor walls
Modification II – pet palette
Ceilings
Creating a composite type
First floor ceilings
Second floor ceilings
Roofs
Trimming walls with roofs
Cutting the roof
Layers
Managing layers with the Quick Layers palette
Site
Zones (rooms)
Lists
Zone categories
Closets are zones too
Doors
Windows
Stairs
Create your first stair
Create your second stair
Slab modification
Stair Modification
Summary
2. Objects, Drafting, and Annotation – A Residential Project
Objects
Bathroom
The casework layer
Vanity
Mirror
Toilet
Tub
Bedrooms
Beds
Furniture
Kitchen
The kitchen casework – base cabinets
The kitchen casework – wall cabinets
Dining room
Living room
Laundry room
Basement
Mesh 2
The Beam & Column tool
Garage
Annotation
The Text tool
Edit existing text blocks
The Label tool
The Dimension tool
Creating your first dimension
Editing existing dimensions
Summary
3. Documentation – A Residential Project
The project workflow
View Map
The View Map palette
Project views
Layer combinations
The ceiling plan views
Cloning a folder
Layer preparation for reflected ceiling plans
Lighting
Light fixture schedule
Creating a schedule view
Elevation views
Elevation markers
Enlarged plans
The Detail tool
Enlarged plan views
Layer preparation for enlarged plans
Kitchen
Laundry room
Bathroom
Sections
Layer preparation for sections
Interior elevations
Kitchen
Adding kitchen annotations
Laundry room
Adding elevation annotations
Bathroom
Bathroom annotations
Layout Book
Master Layout
Drawings (views onto layouts)
New layouts (sheets)
Floor plan sheets
Creating sheets for sections
Creating a sheet for details
Creating a sheet for interior elevations
Schedules sheet
Printing
Setting up to print or plot
Page setup
Plotting a layout
Printing a layout (to fit)
Printing multiple drawings
Exporting files
Exporting multiple files
Summary
4. Project Setup and Modeling Part 1 – A Healthcare Building Project
Project setup
Project settings
Stories
Units
Hotlinks
When to split your project model and when not to
Importing and exporting attribute settings
Xrefs
Attaching Xrefs
Xref layers
Layer combinations
More about the ArchiCAD GUI
The Quick Options palette
The Attributes toolbar
Exterior walls
Elevation marks
The Wall tool
The Curtain Wall tool
Curtain wall #1
Curtain Wall #2
Floors
Roofs
The Mesh tool
The Shell tool
Shell type #1
Shell type #2
Columns and Grids
Using profiles
Composites
The Grid tool
Using the Grid System tool
Adjusting the column grid
Creating additional grid lines
Summary
5. Project Setup and Modeling Part 2 – A Healthcare Building Project
Project configuration and file linking
Saving the project
Creating stories
Units
Hotlinking
Layer preparation for hotlinks
Hotlink the core and shell model
Moving the elevation marks
Attaching Xrefs
Hotlinking the interior model
Modeling tools
Creating new composites
Adjusting layer combinations
Modeling ...