ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide

Scott H. MacKenzie, Adam Rendek

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Année: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781849697637
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Informatica
• Sous-sujet: CAD-CAM

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.

ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide

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Table of Contents

ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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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 ...