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ArchiCAD Training Series Vol. 2

Basic ArchiCAD

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ArchiCAD Training Series Vol. 2 Basic ArchiCAD (International English Metric Version) Copyright © 2014 by GRAPHISOFT, all rights reserved. Reproduction, paraphrasing or translation without express prior written permission is strictly prohibited.

Trademarks ArchiCAD® is a registered trademark of GRAPHISOFT. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Credits Courtesy of GRAPHISOFT

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Contents

CONTENTS Introduction ___________________________________________ 5 Opening the Project ____________________________________ 7 Navigation in ArchiCAD ________________________________ 10 Multiplying Elements __________________________________ 11 Creating Curtain Wall System ___________________________ 15 Modifying Curtain Walls ________________________________ 21 Creating Interior Walls _________________________________ 28 Placing Doors _________________________________________ 37 Mirroring Doors _______________________________________ 39 Creating Stories _______________________________________ 41 Creating Flat Roofs ____________________________________ 43 Creating Parapet Walls _________________________________ 44 Placing Stairs _________________________________________ 45 Dimensioning _________________________________________ 53 Automatic Dimensioning _______________________________ 56 Creating Section Viewpoints ____________________________ 60

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Contents Elevation Dimensioning ________________________________ 62 Elevation _____________________________________________ 64 Inserting Background Images ___________________________ 65 Placing Objects _______________________________________ 67 Merging Plans ________________________________________ 72 Rendering ____________________________________________ 75 Creating 3D Documents ________________________________ 76 Layouting ____________________________________________ 79 Defining Project Info ___________________________________ 83 Exporting to PDF ______________________________________ 85

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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 following materials: •

Vol. 1, The ArchiCAD BIM Concept

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Vol. 2, Basic ArchiCAD

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Vol. 3, Intermediate ArchiCAD

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Vol. 4, Advanced ArchiCAD

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Vol. 5, Using Teamwork

You are now reading Vol. 2, ’Basic ArchiCAD’ a comprehensive hands-on training to familiarize you with the basic modeling and documentation tools of ArchiCAD. This guide is meant for new ArchiCAD users. We strongly recommend that you complete Training Series Vol. 1 before starting this one. This guide is also suitable for using as BIM Curriculum ’Exercises’ - for Hands-on Practice in universities where ArchiCAD is taught to students. Lecturers who would like to use this guide as a BIM Curriculum should visit the educational sites of the GRAPHISOFT website (http://www.graphisoft.com/learning/education) where, after registration, they will be entitled to 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 several screenshots. ArchiCAD project file: The preset training file will help your learning process. Preset project views help 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 GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD (www.youtube.com/user/Archicad) providing step-by-step instructions for each step of 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 18 or later version installed on your computer to use this guide. This ebook and the movie clips were made with the English language version of ArchiCAD. For your conveniance we recommend you to download and use the same version for practicing. If you do not have ArchiCAD yet, please visit myarchicad.com to obtain a free ArchiCAD installer: •

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

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

Please contact your local distributor for purchasing commercial ArchiCAD licenses: www.graphisoft.com/info/where_to_buy How to use this training material? •

Install the required ArchiCAD version.

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Open the PDF Guide.

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Open the related movie clips from the GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD Youtube Channel.

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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 ArchiCAD projects!

Good Luck!

The GRAPHISOFT Team

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Opening the Project

Opening the Project The goal of this training material is to quickly make you familiar with ArchiCAD’s basic modelling /documentation techniques and the fundamental project organization concepts. In order to shorten the learning curve we’ll start working with predefined project template files, which already include the required project defaults, object libraries and element attributes. Instead of manually defining every parameter of new elements we’ll use the so-called ’Favorites’ feature of ArchiCAD. Favorites are preset parameter combinations of ArchiCAD tools, which allow you to store the frequently used building element types in your projects. The project template files 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. Let’s 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, providing various options. 3 In the Set up Work Environment pop-up list, select Standard Profile. Note: ArchiCAD is shipped with three default Profiles: Standard, Visualization and Layouting. These predefined profiles are designed to get you up and running with ArchiCAD. Naturally, you or your office CAD manager can reconfigure these profiles as needed.

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Opening the Project 4 Select Open a Project and Browse for a Solo Project option, and then click Browse... to open an ArchiCAD project file.

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Opening the Project 5 Select the 01 Pavilion.pln file in the training project folder and click on the Open button to open the file.

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Navigation in ArchiCAD

Navigation in ArchiCAD At first glance you can see a Slab, a Steel Column, a Mesh, a Section Marker and four Elevation Views in Floor Plan. On the right side of the ArchiCAD interface is the Navigator palette, a tree structure 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 depending on their particular purpose.

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Multiplying Elements

Multiplying Elements Let’s 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 Arrow Tool. 2 Select Edit/Move/Mirror a Copy menu 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 Slab’s upper edge, and click when the cursor takes on the following shape:

5 Draw the mirroring axis, while holding down the Shift key.

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

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Multiplying Elements 7 Place the two new columns above the Slab.

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

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Multiplying Elements 9 To ensure the columns are all distributed evenly, select all columns and use Edit/Distribute/ Along X command.

10 Select Edit/Move/Mirror a Copy command. 11 Define the mirroring axis.

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Multiplying Elements 12 The first axis point is the middle of the Slab. Draw the mirroring axis, while holding down the Shift key. 13 Open the 3D Window. Press Esc to deselect all and hit either Fn+F4 key on MAC or F5 on Windows or select the Window/3D Window command.

Note: The 3D window displays the Editing Plane by default. Turn it off by clicking View/Editing Plane Display.

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Creating Curtain Wall System

Creating Curtain Wall System The building is surrounded by a curtain wall system, so we’ll use the Curtain Wall tool to create it. 1 Open the Favorites palette choosing the Window/Palettes/Favorites item. 2 Activate the Curtain Wall tool. 3 Double-click CurtainWall from the Favorites palette. Note: Favorites allow you to save your preferred tool configurations for later use. This way you can access your most frequently used building elements with just one click.

4 Choose the Polyline - Single Geometry Method from the Info Box.

5 You have to place the Curtain Wall 6000mm from the left side of the Slab. •

Go back to the floor plan F2 or click the Ground Floor in the Navigator and move the cursor to the upper-left corner of the Slab.

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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.

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Click with the Sun cursor 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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Creating Curtain Wall System •

In the appearing Place Curtain Wall dialog box, define the height of the Curtain Wall to 3000mm and click Place.

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Creating Curtain Wall System •

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

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Modifying Curtain Walls

Modifying Curtain Walls The unnecessary Mullions should be removed from the Curtain Wall. 1 Select the Curtain Wall in Floor plan with the Arrow tool or by SHIFT+ clicking on it. 2 Then click the Edit in 3D button, which appears on the selected Curtain Wall. Another way to enter Edit mode: select the Curtain Wall, then the Design/ Modify Curtain Wall/Edit System command.

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

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Modifying Curtain Walls 4 Select the middle Mullion frame and delete it.

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Modifying Curtain Walls 5 Drag the Mullion frame. •

Select the Mullion frame and drag it with the mouse.

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Click when the cursor’s shape indicates it is at the halfway point of the Boundary frame (arrow with heavy checkmark).

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Double-click on Mullion Frame in the Favorites palette.

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Move the cursor to the middle of the Boundary frame.

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Draw the Frame upside down while holding down the Shift key.

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

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Modifying Curtain Walls 8 Replace the middle Panel with a Door. •

Select the middle Panel and activate the Panel tool in the Toolbox.

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

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

10 Delete the unnecessary Mullion frames of the other three sides, as shown in the pictures (orbit and pan to a convenient view if necessary).

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Modifying Curtain Walls

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Creating Interior Walls

Creating Interior Walls Continue working on the current project or open 02 Pavilion.pln ArchiCAD file from the training project folder. Let’s place the partition walls to create the rooms of the building. Go back to the Ground floor plan. 1 Select the Wall tool from the Toolbox. 2 Double-click on Wall 200 from the Favorites palette. 3 Set the Geometry Method to Rectangular and the Construction Method to Outside Face.

4 The corner of the new Wall will be 10.500 mm from the left edge of the Slab and 3.400 mm from the bottom of the Slab. 5 Move the cursor to the bottom-left corner of the Slab.

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

7 Type y3400+. The cursor immediately snaps upwards.

8 Press Enter and move the cursor toward the upper right.

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Creating Interior Walls 9 Define the size of the rectangular wall: x7600 and y3600. 10 Press Enter.

11 You will have to edit these walls separately. Since the walls were placed in a single step, they are grouped together, therefore you have to first suspend groups by choosing the Suspend

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Creating Interior Walls Group toggle icon in the Standard Toolbar, or use the Edit/Grouping/Suspend Groups command.

12 Activate the Arrow tool and select the upper horizontal Wall. Click on the upper side of the Wall and drag it downwards. Hold down the Shift key to constrain mouse movement vertically.

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Creating Interior Walls 13 Define the distance of offset: d800, then press Enter.

14 Do the same with the other horizontal Wall.

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

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

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Creating Interior Walls 17 Create the new walls so that they divide the existing horizontal wall into three equal segments. Let’s set the Special Snap Points to display divisions along elements. Select View/ Special Snap Options/Divisions (3) from Menubar.

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

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

Hold down the CTRL/CMD key and the cursor changes to Scissors.

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Click on the middle part of the Wall.

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Placing Doors

Placing Doors Now we’ll create doors in the partition walls. 1 Activate the Door tool and select Internal Door from the Favorites palette.

2 Set the Anchor Point to Side 1. The Anchor Point setting defines whether you place the Door by its center point or its side.

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Placing Doors 3 You have to place the Door 100mm from the bottom-left corner of the wall. Move the cursor to the bottom-left corner and type x100+.

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

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Mirroring Doors

Mirroring Doors Let’s create mirrored copies of the door. 1 To be able to mirror the Door, first you have to set View/Special Snap Options back to Half.

2 Select the Door with the Arrow tool. 3 Activate the Edit/Move/Mirror a Copy command.

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

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Creating Stories

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. Let’s see how to create them. 1 Go to Design/Story Settings.... 2 Select Ground Floor and click on the Insert Above command. 3 Modify the Story Name to Roof.

Click OK. 4 Select the Ground Floor from the Navigator and right-click to bring up its context menu.

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Creating Stories 5 Choose Show as Trace Reference. Note: Trace Reference allows you to display different model views or layouts in the context of the active view. This feature helps you to check the consistency of your documentation and your model.

6 You can see the elements of the Ground Floor in the Roof story.

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Creating Flat Roofs

Creating Flat Roofs We’ll model the flat roof of the pavilion using the Slab tool. 1 Activate the Slab tool. 2 Select Flat Roof from the Favorites palette. 3 Create the Flat Roof with the Magic Wand: •

Hold down the Space key and the cursor changes to the Magic Wand.

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Click on the inside of the Ground Floor’s Slab.

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Creating Parapet Walls

Creating Parapet Walls We’ll 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 of the Profile Manager is explained in the Advanced ArchiCAD Training Guide.) 1 Select the Wall tool. 2 Double-click on Parapet Wall in the list of Favorites. 3 Hold down the Space key and when the cursor changes to the Magic Wand, click on the inside of the Ground Floor’s Slab.

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Placing Stairs

Placing Stairs Let’s create a simple straight-run stair with StairMaker, the built-in stair-modeling tool of ArchiCAD. 1 Double-click on the Ground Floor in the Navigator palette. 2 Open the Stair Settings dialog box from the Toolbox. 3 Select the Create Stair command.

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

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Placing Stairs 5 Set the following values:

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Total height is 1500mm; Flight width is 3500mm; Full length is 2500mm.

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Structure type is Treads only.

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Placing Stairs

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Set all Tread surfaces to Concrete - 08 18.

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Placing Stairs •

Railing type: No railings.

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Finally, you have to define the type of the 2D representation. Leave defaults as is and save the stairs.

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Placing Stairs 6 Click Save As... to give it a name: Pavilion Stair. Click Save when done. The Stair is saved in your Embedded Library. Click OK to close the StairMaker and go back to the Ground Floor.

7 Double-click on the Stair tool and select the Pavilion Stair. •

Move the cursor inside the Preview Area: the cursor changes to a ’rotate’ arrow. Rotate the 2D Symbol to the required position. Define the primary hotspot of the Stair; this will be its leftupper point.

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Set Home Story to Ground Floor and modify the Relative Base Height to -1500 mm. Click OK.

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

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Placing Stairs 9 Press the Enter key.

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Dimensioning

Dimensioning Continue working on the current project or open 04 Pavilion.pln ArchiCAD file from the training project folder. We’ll 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.

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

5 In order to finish the dimensioning you have to double-click on an empty space area. 6 The next step is to move the Hammer cursor to the position where you want to place the dimension line.

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

8 Double-click on an empty space and move the Hammer cursor to the position where you want to place the dimension line.

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Automatic Dimensioning

Automatic Dimensioning 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 Wall tool.

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Choose Edit/Select All Walls command.

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

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Automatic Dimensioning 3 Define the appropriate preferences for the dimensioning.

Click OK.

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Automatic Dimensioning 4 Define the direction of the dimension lines. You can do this in two ways: •

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

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

5 Click with the Hammer cursor to place the dimension lines.

6 Delete the unnecessary dimension lines. 7 Insert new Dimension points: •

Select the Dimension line with the Arrow tool.

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Then, with the Dimension Tool selected, CTRL/CMD-click on the desired new Reference Point. The new point can be located between existing chain points or anywhere outside the dimension chain.

8 Create new Dimensions to the Slab and the Stair.

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Automatic Dimensioning 9 The final result should be similar to the one in this picture.

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Creating Section Viewpoints

Creating Section Viewpoints Creating new section markers and section views is easy with ArchiCAD’s Section tool. 1 Activate the Section tool. 2 Set the Horizontal Range to Infinite Depth and choose the Single Geometry Method from the 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.

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Creating Section Viewpoints 5 Open the new section from the Navigator palette. The new Section viewpoint is created and listed automatically in the Navigator Project Map.

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Elevation Dimensioning

Elevation Dimensioning Elevation Dimensions allow you to place height markers in Section/Elevation/IE and 3D Document windows. 6 Activate S/E Dim. (2.5) from the Favorites palette.

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Elevation Dimensioning 7 Open the section, and place individual markers by clicking the points that you want to dimension, then Double-click or click OK in the Control Box. Use the Hammer cursor to position the marker.

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Elevation

Elevation Working with Elevations is very similar to Sections. The process is explained in the previous chapter. 1 Open the South Elevation View from the Navigator palette.

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Inserting Background Images

Inserting Background Images We can improve the elevation view by adding a realistic background image behind it. 1 Double-click on the Figure tool. •

Click the Open button to browse the directory system for image files. Select Sky_sunset1_photo.jpg file from the ArchiCAD Library/ [BImg] Background Images / Photos 1024x768 folder.

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Set the bottom-left Anchor point.

Click OK.

2 Place the Figure with a single click.

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Inserting Background Images 3 Resize the image by using the Pet palette.

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Placing Objects

Placing Objects ArchiCAD is shipped with an extensive parametric object library, which helps you to quickly improve your model and documentation. Let’s place a few tree objects on the elevations. 1 Open the Object Default Settings by double-clicking on the Object tool. 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 /VISUALIZATION 18/Site Improvements/ Garden 18 folder.

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Choose the Find Library Parts option to locate library parts by name using keywords in a search engine. Type the ’tree’ keyword and press the Find button.

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Placing Objects 3 Select the preferred Tree object.

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Placing Objects 4 Place the tree object in the Elevation View. 5 You have to position the tree object behind the building. To do this, you must change the display order of the object. 6 Select the object. •

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

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Option 2: Right-click to bring up the element’s context menu, then select the Display Order/ Send Backward command twice.

7 Create a copy of the tree object. Activate either the Edit/Move/Drag a Copy command or use CTRL + Shift + D (Windows)/CMD + Alt + D (Mac) shortcuts.

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Placing Objects 8 Replace the type of the tree: double-click on the Object tool and select another tree object from the folder.

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Placing Objects 9 Place the new 2D People Symbols in the Elevation View.

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Merging Plans

Merging Plans The furniture layout is already available in an external ArchiCAD module file. We’ll merge it into our project to shorten the documentation and modeling time. Note: You can learn more about ArchiCAD modules in other volumes of this training guide series.

1 Activate the Ground Floor view from the Navigator palette. 2 Select File/File Special/Merge command.

3 Browse for the Furnishing_Plan.mod file and click Open.

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Merging Plans 4 Select Show and unlock related layers in the Pasting… dialog if prompted and click Continue…

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Merging Plans 5 Until the file is placed, its elements will be surrounded by a dashed rectangle. Click within the rectangle to move the elements to the desired position. Click outside or click OK from the context menu (or the Control Box) to place the elements. Enable showing and unlocking layers, if necessary.

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Rendering

Rendering ArchiCAD offers you various visualization modes to present your design to your customers. You can select from two predefined Rendering Settings from the View Map of the Navigator palette: the first uses the integrated CineRender engine, while the second adds the White Model Effect by GRAPHISOFT as well.

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Creating 3D Documents

Creating 3D Documents The 3D document is a unique ArchiCAD feature that presents your models with annotations in a 3D 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 and additional 2D drawing elements. 1 Open the 3D-01 Document from the Navigator palette.

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Creating 3D Documents 2 Select the Dimension tool. 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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Creating 3D Documents 7 Place individual markers by clicking the points that you want to dimension, then Doubleclick or click OK in the Control Box. Use the Hammer cursor to position the marker.

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Layouting

Layouting Continue working on the current project or open 05 Pavilion.pln ArchiCAD file from the training project folder. The final documentation layouts are available in the Layout Book. Let’s see how to complete your documentation in ArchiCAD. 1 Activate the Navigator’s Layout 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.

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Layouting 4 Drag the 0. Ground Floor from the Floor Plans folder and drop it onto the Layout.

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

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Layouting 6 If you do not want to place the drawings one by one, select the Show Organizer command from the Project Chooser at the top left of the Navigator.

7 Choose the View Map in the left side of the Organizer and the Layout Book in the right side. 8 Select each Elevation in the View Map and drag them into the A.01 Pavilion Layout.

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Layouting 9 Place the other drawings (Sections, Roof, Rendering) onto the Layout and arrange them into the 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 solution will significantly reduce the time spent on project documentation. 1 Open the File/Info/Project info dialog box, which contains the most important information about your project. 2 If you fill in these fields with the necessary data, the text on the layouts will change automatically.

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Exporting to PDF

Exporting to PDF The project documentation can be published in many file formats with just one click of the mouse. PDF is the most widely use document archiving format in the construction industry, so let’s see how to export to this format. 1 Open the Organizer dialog box from the Project Chooser at the top left of the Navigator. 2 Click on Publisher Sets to the right side of the Organizer.

3 Choose the 3 - Pavilion Publisher Set from the list.

4 Select the A.01 Pavilion Layout. 5 Define the output format. Files can be saved in a large variety of formats, including all standard image formats and CAD exchange formats. Select PDF file format. 6 Click the arrow One Level Up to the publisher set name, to step up a level.

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Exporting to PDF 7 Set a target folder for the published files in the Path field by clicking the Publishing Properties… button.

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Exporting to PDF 8 Click on the Publish button.

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Exporting to PDF Congratulations! You have successfully completed this Training Guide! We hope that you have learned many new and exciting things about the possibilities of BIM and understood how ArchiCAD supports the architectural design workflow. Please check the other volumes of this training series for more details about ArchiCAD. Should you have any questions regarding ArchiCAD or other GRAPHISOFT products, please visit Graphisoft Help Center, our online knowledge base: helpcenter.graphisoft.com. Please feel free to contact GRAPHISOFT and its worldwide partners with further questions at www.graphisoft.com. We look forward to seeing you in the ArchiCAD user community.

The GRAPHISOFT Team

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