Archicad Training Series Vol.3

ArchiCAD Training Series Series Vol. 3

Intermediate ArchiCAD

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ArchiCAD Training Series Vol. 3

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CONTENTS Introduction __________________________________________10 Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope ________________14 Creati Creating ng the Site Site ______ _________ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ _______ _______ ______ _______ _______ ____ _ 17 Importing Surveyor Sur veyor Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Creating a New Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Modeling the Terrain Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Creating Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Modeling Modeling Basic Building Building Structures Structures ____________ ___________________ _____________ _______ _ 29 Creating Exterior Walls. Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Creating a Floor Slab. Slab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Creating Pavement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Creating a Curved Wall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Adding More External Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Creating New Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Creating a Single Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Trimming to a Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Creating a Veranda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Creating Timber Timber Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Placing Columns. Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Creating Creating Rafters Rafters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Creating Collar Beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Adding Terrace Terrace Slab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations __________ _____________ ___93 93 Doors ____________ __________________ ____________ ____________ ____________ _____________ _____________ _________ ___ 93 Adding an Entrance Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Adding Sliding Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Multiplying Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Adding Internal Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Creating a New Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Creating the Floor Slab. Slab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Creating Partition Walls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Creating Internal doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Adding a Gallery Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Windowss _____________ Window ___________________ ___________ ___________ _____________ ______________ ___________ ____ 118 Adding Windows Windows on the Ground Floor Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Adding Windows Windows on the Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Rectangular Rectangular Windows Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Modifying Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Changing Changing Type Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Modifying Size in the 3D View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Resizing a Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Adding Adding Skylights Skylights ____________ __________________ ____________ ____________ _____________ ___________ ____ 125 Creating Creating a Stair_____________ Stair___________________ _____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ _____ 127 Using Library Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Creating a Stair with StairMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128


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Foundatio Foundation n Structures Structures ____________ __________________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ______ 137 Creating Foundations Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Creating Pad Pad Foundations under the the Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Chapter 3 - Creating Zones __________ ____________________ ___________________ _________144 144 Zones ____________ __________________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ _____________ _________ __ 144 Zone Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Adding Automatic Zones Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Adding a Manual Zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Refining Zones in 3D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Changing Zone Appearance on Floor Plan. Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Adding Zone Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Color Coding Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Using Image Fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Creating Image Fills. Fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Changing Zone Stamp Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions ___________ _____________________ ______________168 ____168 Placing Placing Dimensions Dimensions on Floor Plan ____________ _________________ ____________ __________ ___ 168 Automatic Dimensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Editing Editing Dimension Dimensionss _____________ ___________________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ________ __ 173 Dimension Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Dragging Chains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Deleting a Full Chain. Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Adding Full Chains Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Adding Points Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Deleting Deleting Points Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 ArchiCAD Training Series Vol. 3

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Adding Adding Radial Dimension Dimension______ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ __________ ____ 178 Adding Adding Level Dimensions______ Dimensions _____________ _____________ ____________ ____________ _________ ___ 179 On Floor Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 On Section/Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Adding Dimension Points Points to a Level Dimension Dimension Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Changing Markers In a Dimension Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Changing Changing Dimension Dimension Text ____________ ___________________ ____________ ____________ _________ __ 187

Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements ___________ __________________ _______192 192 Accessi Accessing ng Objects ___________ _________________ ____________ ____________ _____________ ___________ ____ 192 Loading Loading Objects and Libraries Libraries ____________ __________________ _____________ ____________ _____ 193 Adding a New Library to the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Adding Adding Handrails Handrails ____________ __________________ ____________ ____________ _____________ ___________ ____ 194 Placing External Handrails as Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Placing Internal Handrails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Creating Railing with Profiled Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Adding Adding Furnitur Furniture e and Equipment Equipment _____________ __________________ ____________ _________ __ 205 Interior Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Exterior Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules ___________ ______________________ ____________214 _214 Cleaning Cleaning Up Sections and Elevat Elevations ions ____________ ___________________ ____________ _____ 214 Solid Element Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216


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Adding Adding Details Details ____________ __________________ ____________ _____________ ____________ ____________ _______ 220 Creating Linked Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Creating Unlinked Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Creating Creating Schedules Schedules ____________ ___________________ _____________ ____________ ____________ ________ __ 227 Modifying an Existing Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Adding/Removing Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Changing an Element's Parameters from the List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Creating a New Element List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Creating a New Component List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Chapter 7 - Documentation __________ ____________________ __________________ ________241 241 Creating Creating View Viewss ____________ __________________ ____________ _____________ ____________ ____________ _______ 242 Creating a Folder Folder in the View Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Deleting a Folder in the View Map. Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 View View Settings Settings _____________ ___________________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ _______ _ 244 Modify View Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Element-level Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 View Dependent Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 3D Documents from Floor Plans. Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Chapter 8 - Visualization _______________________________261 Saving a View Directly Directly in 3D______________ 3D___________________ ___________ _____________ _______ 261 Creating Creating Rendered Rendered View Viewss _____________ ___________________ ____________ ____________ _________ ___ 264 CineRender Engine & White Model Effect Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Sketch Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269


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Internal Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 CineRender Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Refining Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Adding Lights ___________________________________________ 287

Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design ________________________294 Traditional (2D) Formats ___________________________________ 294 Creating a Layout Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 Changing Section/Elevation Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Changing Drawing Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Changing Master Layout of Existing Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Creating New Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Layout Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Creating and Using a Custom Master Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Publishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Publisher Set Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Creating New Publisher Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 BIM-Based Documentation ________________________________ 331 IFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331


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Chapter 10 - Revision Management _____________________339 First Issue _______________________________________________ 339 Creating Changes_________________________________________ 342 Issuing __________________________________________________ 347 Revision History __________________________________________ 353 New Issues_______________________________________________ 356


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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. 3, ‘Intermediate ArchiCAD’ a comprehensive hands-on training to familiarize you with the advanced modeling and documentation tools of ArchiCAD. This guide is meant for basic ArchiCAD users. We strongly recommend that you complete Training Series Vol. 1 and 2 before starting this one. Contents of this guide: Training guide e-book: The PDF guide includes detailed explanation of every step, with several screen shots. 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. You must have ArchiCAD 18 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 your convenience we recommend you to download and use the same version for practicing.


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Introduction 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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Introduction Now, let’s see the project we are going to create. 1 Double click the ArchiCAD application icon on your desktop to start ArchiCAD. The ArchiCAD splash screen and shortly after the Start ArchiCAD 18 dialog box will appear, providing various options.


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Introduction 2 In the Set up Work Environment pop-up list, select Standard Profile 18. 3 Select the Open a Project and Browse for a Solo Project options and then select the Browse button to open an ArchiCAD project file. 4 Select the TS03_complete.pla project file in the training project folder and click the Open button to open the file of the final project. When the Open Archive Project message prompts, choose Read elements directly from archive and click Open. In the Navigator, use the View Map to open some floor plans, sections and 3D views. If you feel ready for the task ahead of us, move on to Chapter 1 to create the project from zero.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope

Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope In this chapter we will start the project using 2D site information and then model the basic building envelope: e.g. creating a floor slab and adding some walls and columns to our project. While these are all really simple operations, they will underscore some important core design concepts: •

All ArchiCAD building elements are ‘real’ 3D objects: you might create a wall or slab in the floor plan view, but their 3D view is also at hand immediately and at any time. This enables users to view the project in its own 3D environment (instant, real-time 3D feedback) and to make better, more informed design decisions.

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ArchiCAD enables the creation of a fully integrated project information database: design development can be done in any view - plan, 3D views, etc. - all other views will be automatically and immediately updated. No tedious, iterative process is required from the designer. This is the true power of the ‘Virtual Building TM’ design concept.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Create a new project by selecting the File > New > New command. In the appearing dialog, select Use a Template: ArchiCAD 18 Template, select the Standard Profile 18 and click the New button. Choose Don't save if the Save Changes dialog appears.

A new project is created based on the standard template of ArchiCAD. This template already contains layers, fills, materials, and composites to help you from the very beginning. Later on, you may also create your own template to fit your own design and office standards. Save the project to a location where you will easily find it later. Let’s change the default working units from millimeters to meters. This will not scale the model, but affects data input.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 1 Open Options > Project Preferences > Working Units…


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 2 Set the Model Unit to meter and its Decimals to 2. Click OK.

Creating the Site Importing Surveyor Data Usually, buildings are designed to physical locations, therefore orientation and geographical parameters provide the initial context of the design. ArchiCAD is capable of importing various data formats to enable the architects to use it as native building environment. For example point clouds, Google Earth terrain or simple DWG/DWF files. In the exercise, we will follow the most typical workflow for how architects and surveyors work together - we will import a DWG file to model the site.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Creating a New Worksheet In ArchiCAD a dedicated workspace called Worksheet is available to manage all external 2D data. 1 Open Navigator - Project Map

and right-click on the Worksheets item. Select New Independent Worksheet...

and set ID as W-01 and name as Site. Click Create.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope The worksheet opens automatically. Now you can import the DWG data and place it into the project. There are two ways of using 2D data in the project depending on whether the data may change or not. If you expect that the data may change during the project, use the Xref method. This way, there is a living connection between the original external file and the ArchiCAD project, which ensures that in case the external file changes, you can simply update the content. If the data does not change during the full project lifecycle, you can also merge the content into the ArchiCAD project. In this case all elements will be converted into native ArchiCAD elements, and can be edited in the future. 2 Now select File > External Content > Attach Xref…


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 In the appearing dialog, click Browse... on top to locate the W 01 Site.dwg file. Set the options as below:

4 Click Attach and click Skip to select font files if prompted.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 5 Now place the drawing inside the project. Choose default origin point of ArchiCAD marked with an ‘x’ sign as the deployment point of the Xref-ed dwg. In the upcoming DWG/DXF Partial Open dialog leave all layers checked and click OK.

Click any elements. The linework is selected with faded nodes. This means that it is not editable, because it is part of another file. The status of the attached Xrefs can be monitored below File > External Content > Xref Manager.... If the original Xref changes you can update it by reloading it from this dialog.


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Modeling the Terrain We will use the lines as base geometry for our terrain mesh. Switch to Navigator - Project Map > 0. Ground Floor. 1 Right-click the W-01 Site worksheet in the Navigator and choose Show as Trace Reference to select it as a traced view. 2 Click the arrow next to the Trace and Reference button in the toolbar and choose Trace & Reference from the bottom of the list to open the Trace & Reference palette.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 Open the settings of the Reference, check the All Types checkbox and click Apply Settings to all References to ensure that the trace will always behave the same way.

4 Close the palette. Note: If you still cannot see the lines, their layers may be hidden. Open the Layer Settings dialog by pressing Ctrl/Cmd+L, scroll down in the list of layers. The layers of the Xref are separated from the native ArchiCAD layers. Click the eye icons to make them visible. Click OK.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Creating Mesh 1 Activate the Mesh tool (click the Mesh tool icon in the Toolbox so that it will be active) and double-click on its icon. 2 The Mesh Settings dialog opens. Set the mesh properties as follows: •

Mesh Height: 2,00 meters

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Home Story to 0. Ground Floor and Elevation to Project Zero to -0,10

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Select Solid Body as Structure

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Set Soil as Building Material

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Uncheck Cover Fills in the Floor Plan and Section panel

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Override Top Surface with Grass - Green

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Select All Ridges Sharp.

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Tags and Categories: if you are going to communicate your design to any engineers who work with 3D applications, you have to fill in these fields, so the external application can recognize them properly. Set Structural Function as Non-Load-Bearing Element and Position as Exterior.


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Click OK.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 Select the Rectangular geometry method in the Info Box, and click the two opposite points of the site rectangle to create a mesh.

4 Select the mesh with Shift + click (activate the Mesh tool if deactivated). 5 Space + click (hold down the space bar on your keyboard and click with the mouse cursor) on the curved level lines one by one to add them to the mesh. Select Fit to User Ridges in the New Mesh Points dialog.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 6 To set the height of the points of the mesh that are on the same height level select the mesh and click on a node of the second line from the right (line in the middle): When the Pet palette appears, click Elevate Mesh Point. Set Height to 0,50 and check the Apply to All checkbox, so that all nodes on this line will be elevated to the same height. Click OK.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Now elevate the two corners on the right one by one. Click on the upper corner. Select Elevate Mesh Point again and set 1,00 as the Height but leave the Apply to All checkbox unchecked, otherwise all points of the rectangle would rise. Repeat this with the corner below. The result should look like this:

With the mesh selected right-click, and select Show Selection/Marquee in 3D to check its shape. Click on the Fit in window button in the bottom of the screen if it is not fully visible.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Go to View and click Editing Plane Display to turn off the editing plane if it is displayed.

Modeling Basic Building Structures Creating Exterior Walls Walls can have multiple skins representing the real structure, including the load bearing structures, insulation, and finishing. Out of the box, ArchiCAD contains a set of fills and composites, but now we will create our own composite structure representing the exterior wall of the building. The needed skin order from outside to inside is: •

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope The white brick material does not exist by default, so we will have to create it ourselves. 1 Go to Options > Element Attributes > Building Materials.... In the upcoming dialog on the left you can see the list of the building materials used in the project. Each material is simulating a real material has a so-called intersection priority setting. These priority settings will control how our junctions will appear later when two constructions collide. The higher priority a material has, the more important it will be in a junction. On the right you can assign cut fills to the materials for 2D representation and surfaces for 3D. You can see a preview of these settings in front of the building material name in the list as well. •

Select an existing material - Brick - Finish - and click New... in the bottom and duplicate the existing material.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 2 Open Options > Element Attributes > Composites....

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Composite skins may represent different structural functions, like load-bearing, finishing or others. You can set this up skin-by-skin in the Edit Skin and Line Structure panel. Click OK. Note: Composites can be also assigned to other structures, like slabs and shells. This particular structure is typical for walls, but by clicking on the Use With icons you can assign the composites to other building structures too. Later on, the composite structure will appear in the settings dialog of the assigned element types only.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Now, let’s define the wall’s settings. 1 Switch to Navigator - Project Map > 0. Ground Floor and deselect the mesh if still selected. 2 Activate the Wall tool and open its Settings dialog. 3 Set the Wall settings as follows: •

Set the Wall Top linked to 2. Story and 1,00 as Top offset to Top Linked Story. This function will make sure that the wall height will automatically follow story height changes. The wall will model both the ground floor and the 1st floor walls.

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Open the Tags and Categories panel. Set the tags as Load-Bearing Element, Exterior, Wall:


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope We would like to add custom data and comply with standards when classifying our elements and use standard compliant terminology. There are many properties, but only a few visible in the Tags and Categories panel by default. The availability of these can be set by clicking Manage IFC Properties.... Note: If we would like to know which properties are necessary to be filled out for a specific standard, click Cancel and close the Wall Default Settings dialog by clicking OK for now. Open File > File Special > IFC 2x3 > IFC Scheme Setup... to import a scheme that will contain the necessary properties. Click Import... and browse for the Concept Design BIM 2010.xml file. Click Open and Continue in the upcoming dialog. The properties visible in the element settings are all that need to be filled out for standard compliance. Now we have to define the properties. Click Manage IFC Properties... in the Tags and Categories panel.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Select OmniClass, Table 21 - Elements and type exterior wall in the search field and click the Search button. Select Exterior Walls in the result list and click Apply.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope The predefined values will appear in the Classification References and will contain several values that are necessary for compliance. You can check these by clicking the button next to the value field.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 4 Select the Rectangular geometry method in the Info Box and click the two marked points to create the walls. For this action it is highly recommended to turn off the grid display by View > Grid Display, because the grid line and the dashed lines we need cover each other. Later we can turn the grid on again.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 5 Press Fn+F4 on MAC or Ctrl+F5 on Windows to show all in 3D.

Note: When drawing the line of a wall, after the first click a heavy black line follows the cursor like a rubber band. This line is the reference line of the wall and the width of the wall is measured from this reference line. The reference line connects walls smoothly and helps locating the walls with the cursor.


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Creating a Floor Slab First let's create a composite again, open Options > Element Attributes > Composites.... •

Select Concrete Floor Insulated with 10mm Tile and click Duplicate.

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Select Concrete Floor Insulated with 10mm Tile on Ground as composite structure cut fill.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 4 Hold the Space bar and move the cursor towards the bottom on the exterior side of the walls. This activates the Magic Wand feature that can recognize closed contours. Click when the plane indicator turns into a darker gray close to the bottom of the wall and the slab will immediately appear in the middle and at a correct elevation. Naturally, slabs can always be placed on the floor plan view.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Creating Pavement We model the sidewalk area on the Floor plan with the Slab tool as well. Let’s assume that the correct skin settings are not available in the current project, but we used the right composite in another project before. In this case, we can import existing composites from other files. Let’s see an example.

Adding a composite from an existing project 1 Open Options > Element Attributes > Attribute Manager....


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope In this dialog, on the left side you can review all attribute-like properties in one place, like layers, materials, composites, etc. The check mark next an attribute i ndicates if it is currently in use in the project. On the right side, you can open the attribute set of another project, browse, and add additional attributes to the current project. Open the Composites tab page of the dialog.

2 Click the Open… button and browse Existing Project.pln. Click Open: the composites appear on the right side.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 Select Exterior Pavement and uncheck All Associated Attributes checkbox - so only the composite will be created, but fills and surfaces linked to it will not be duplicated - and click << Append. The composite appears in the list of the current project.

4 Click OK, then Create to confirm the changes.

Creating the pavement slab 1 Switch to Navigator - Project Map > 0. Ground Floor. 2 Activate the Slab tool and set the settings as follows: •

Set 0. Ground Floor as Home Story and Offset to Home Story (as well Reference Plane Elevation to Project Zero) to -0,05.


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Choose the Exterior Pavement as cut composite fill.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 Click OK. 4 Select the Polygonal geometry method. 5 Click the marked linework intersection points to define the exterior pavement.

6 Open the 3D window to see the result. Now we need a hole in the area of the building. 7 Select the pavement slab, and activate the Slab tool. Click on any edge to display the Pet palette. This palette contains all editing commands available for the selected element. Select the Subtract from Polygon command and the Rectangular geometry method in the Info Box.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Note that even though you pick a point on the top of the wall, it is projected to the level of the slab automatically. Once you click the second point, a hole is created in the pavement slab.

Creating a Curved Wall Now, we will create some more walls.

Using Favorites Instead of setting all the parameters for the newly created elements all the time, you can also save and re-use parameters by defining Favorites. Similar to attributes, later on you can export and import the favorite settings between projects. You can apply the favorite settings to existing elements, as well as using them as a basis for new elements.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope You can access the favorites using the Favorites palette. 1 Deselect all and choose Window > Palettes > Favorites.

2 By default you can see some predefined favorites available. If a tool is activated, the list will show the relevant favorites only. Let’s assume that we want to use a Favorite we created in a former project. Next to the Name header, click the arrow icon to display the available options. Click the Load Favorites... item. Search and select the Existing Favorites.prf file. 3 Click Open. In the upcoming dialog click Merge to append the additional favorites to the current project. Select the Wall tool: the Exterior Wall (Slanted) will appear in the Favorites list. Close the Favorites palette.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Creating a curved wall 1 Open the 0. Ground Floor plan. 2 Open the Wall Settings dialog. Click on the Favorites button at the top. Select Exterior Wall (Slanted) and click Apply. Note that the parameter settings changed in the Settings dialog. This will be solid stone wall with one side slanted.

Set the Building Material to Stone - Structural and Show Projection to Entire Element on the Floor Plan and Section panel. Click OK.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 Select the Single geometry method and the reference line on the Outside Face in the Info Box. First, we create a straight segment 2 meters from the existing wall, then we will modify it. To find the precise locations, we will use guide lines. 4 Hover your cursor over the edge of the longer wall segment until an orange spot appears. Click on the spot and drag the line by the dot towards the pavement. Type 2, the value will appear in the Tracker. Press Enter. If not visible, the Tracker can be activated from the Standard Toolbar by pressing the Show/Hide Tracker button.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 5 Draw the wall between the intersection points of the guide line and the traced dashed lines starting from the left side.

6 Select the slanted wall. Click on the right side endpoint. 7 Select the Stretch command in the Pet palette and move the endpoint downwards. Hold down the Shift key while moving the cursor downwards and type d1 (release Shift when typing the numbers), to define the endpoint a meter below its original position. Press Enter.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 8 Now click on the reference line and select the Curve edge icon on the Pet palette. Move the cursor upwards, and type 30 in the Tracker as radius. Hit Enter.

Adding More External Walls 1 To pick up the parameters of elements and set them as default, activate the eyedropper button in the Standard Toolbar. The cursor will change to an eyedropper (you can also use the shortcut Alt + click to activate this option). Now pick up the settings of the closed external wall. 2 Move the eyedropper above the external wall, so that it will be highlighted and the Tracker will provide you with some brief details about the wall. Click on the wall. Note that the Wall tool will be activated in the Toolbox and the Info Box will also refer to the wall. Note: In the case of multiple elements placed above each other, you can always switch between them with the Tab key. Make sure that you found the external wall with the eyedropper cursor.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 Open the wall settings and set: •

Wall Top to 1. Story (Home + 1)

• Top offset to Top Linked Story to 0,00. Click OK. 4 Draw the front and the back walls of the entrance enclosure with the help of guide lines created 1,8 meters from the outside edge of the wall. Use Core Inside reference line and draw the wall downwards on the left side and upwards on the right side. Make sure the new walls connect the existing reference lines. Note: You can also create these walls at a specific distance from the corner without the guide lines. Move the cursor over the corner until it changes to a checkmark, then type x 1,8+. The tracker will appear and the cursor will jump on the X axis by 1,8 meters. Hit enter to place the first endpoint of the wall. Type x 1,8- for the other wall.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Adjusting Skin Priorities You can see that some skins of the multi-layer wall intersect the stone wall and some layers of the external wall do not intersect correctly. This is because the skin priorities are not set correctly. The bigger the priority number, the stronger the wall or wall skin will be when it comes to intersection with other walls. You can set the priority between 0 and 999. You can set skin priorities by building materials. 1 Select the brick wall and open Options > Element Attributes > Building Materials. The materials the composite uses will be highlighted in the list. •

Select the Masonry block - Structural skin, and check its priority. It is 730, which means that the stone wall must have an equal or higher priority number to avoid unneeded intersections.

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Creating New Stories Our training project will have three stories: the existing ‘Ground Floor’ on which we’ve already worked, a ‘Gallery’ and a ‘Foundation’ that we will create now and the ‘Roof ’. 1 Open Design > Story Settings... dialog box. •

By default ArchiCAD creates the project with 3 stories. Select the third stor y (No. 2.) and name it Roof .

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Click OK. Note: You can also access the Story Settings dialog box by right-clicking any of the stories in the Navigator - Project Map and selecting Story Settings from the context menu.


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Creating a Single Roof Let’s add now a semi-pitched roof to the building with wide overhangs supported by columns to create a veranda. 1 Open the 1. Gallery story. 2 Activate the Roof tool and adjust its settings as follows: •

Pivot Height (Pivot Line Offset to Home Story): 1,00 m

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• Top surface: Roof - Corrugated Sheet Matte, side and bottom: Wood - Pine Grained Horizontal • Tags: Load-Bearing Element, Exterior, Roof •

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 Click OK. 4 First construct a pitched roof by defining its pivot line by clicking on the internal corners of the masonry skin on the lower x directional exterior wall.

5 Define the direction of the slope by clicking above the previously defined pivot line with the eye-shaped cursor.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 6 Draw the perimeter of the roof (which is its projection to the horizontal plane) using the external corners of the exterior wall.


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Trimming to a Roof Activate the 3D window view on the Navigator. You can see that the tops of the walls are not aligned to the roof. Now we will trim them to the right height.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 1 Select the walls by Shift + clicking on one of them. The walls are grouped, so if you have Suspend Groups off, which is a default setting (from the Standard Toolbar), one selection will select all four exterior walls.

2 Right-click and select Connect > Trim Elements to Roof/Shell.

3 Click anywhere on the roof. The empty roof icon turns black if the program finds a selectable element.


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The walls are now associatively trimmed to the roof. If you change the roof geometry or sloping angle, the walls will be updated automatically.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Note: Later on you can review and manage the connections between the elements very easily. If you select an element which has connections, an icon appears on its surface. Click on the icon to get a list of current connections. You can highlight the intended elements as well as delete the connections together or one by one.

Creating a Veranda We would like to create a veranda at the back part of our building. To do so, we will have to offset the roof and the bottom slab as well. We could perform these actions one-by-one, but instead we will exploit a smart ArchiCAD feature, the Multi-Element Editing.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Simply select the roof and the external slab and click on an edge of t he slab. Use the Offset Edge action on the Pet palette and simply modify both elements at the same step. Offset the edges, type 2,5 in the Tracker and hit Enter.

Note: Multi-Element Editing works with all polygon-based elements except Morph and Shell. This way you can easily cut holes through multiple slabs, roofs or even meshes, move adjacent edges of elements, resize windows, etc. in a single step. The elements can be of different types during editing.


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Creating Timber Structures Placing Columns Next we place four columns to create a veranda on the south side of the building. The first and the last column will align with the axis of the two walls and they will be equally distr ibuted and parallel to the front wall. 1 Switch to the 0. Ground Floor in the Navigator - Project Map. 2 Activate the Column tool. 3 Open the settings dialog and set parameters as follows: •

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 4 Place the column on the intersection point of the dashed lines.

5 Select the column and multiply it by activating the Multiply command from the context menu: right-click and choose the Move > Multiply... command. Alternatively you can use the Edit > Move > Multiply... menu command.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 6 Choose Drag as the multiply action, and enter 3 for the number of copies. Now select the Distribute multiply method.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 7 Click the center point of the column, and with the Shift key pressed move the cursor to the intersection point on the opposite side. Click to place the 3 new columns.

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Creating Rafters Now let’s continue with the rafters. 1 Switch back to the 0. Ground Floor. 2 Activate the Section tool in the Toolbox and draw a section line vertically, approximately in the middle of the building. Click with the eye cursor to the left of the section line. The section automatically appears in the Section list of the Navigator.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 3 Double click on the section in the Navigator to open it. There is a problem now: the walls intersect with the roof. To solve this we have to change the priority of a roof skin. Select the roof and open Options > Element attributes > Building Materials... and set the priority of Air Space - Frame to 735 to make it higher than the building materials of the wall. This building material is the bottom layer of the roof composite. 4 We will take advantage of the automatic surface recognition when placing the first rafter. Switch to the 3D window and select the roof and open its settings. Turn off surface override for the edge surfaces. Click OK. The skins of the roof are now visible. 5 Activate the Beam tool. Set its settings as follows: •

Beam Height/Width: 0,20

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7 Turn on surface override again for the roof when done. 8 Open the Gallery plan. Select the already drawn rafter, right-click on it and select Move > Multiply. 9 In the Multiply dialog, enter 12 for Number of copies, choose the Distribute method and click OK. 10 Click the top-left corner of the rafter. Then hold down the Shift key to constrain mouse movement horizontally and click the top-left corner of the roof.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 11 Click anywhere on the empty screen or press Esc to remove selection of newly created elements.

12 Open the 3D window to see the result. Use the Orbit and Explore commands to navigate and check the section as well.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope Creating Collar Beams We also need some horizontal beams. 1 Switch to the Gallery plan and activate the Beam tool. 2 The collar beams have similar parameters like the rafter, the only main difference is that these are horizontal. Let’s pick up the properties of the existing beams with the Pipette . 3 Now open the settings dialog and change the parameters as follows: •

Horizontal

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Click OK. 4 Draw the beam on the floor plan from one side of the roof to the other on the dashed line this is also the axis of the columns below.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 5 Open the section to check the result.

The position of the beam and the rafters is OK now, so let’s simply drag a copy of this beam in the section by using the context menu Move > Drag a Copy command. Drag the beam by its upper right corner and move it to the position as marked below.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 6 Drag another copy for the last beam as well. For precise placement create a Guide Line by hovering the cursor over the bottom edge of the rafters and click the orange dot. Move the copy of the beam to the following position.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 7 Switch back to 3D and check the result. The columns are still too high compared to the collar beam, so let’s select them all and shorten them at the same time by using the Stretch height command of the Pet palette. Set the height to the bottom corner of the beam.

Note: If you turn off the display of Beams in the View > Elements in 3D view > Filter and Cut Elements in 3D dialog, you will see that the beams and walls are connected automatically and there are holes in the place of beams as the Timber - Structural building material has higher priority than the wall materials. These connections will be considered when creating bill of materials as well.


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Adding Terrace Slab Navigate to the terrace side of the building. There is a missing slab. 1 Open the 1. Gallery level in the Navigator - Project Map and activate the Slab tool. Set the settings as follows: •

Offset to Home Story: 0,00

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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 2 Select the Polygonal geometry method at the Info Box. 3 Activate 3D Cutaway on the Standard Toolbar.

Open the section and drag a horizontal 3D cutting plane from top and position it on the toplevel of the short walls (+3,00).


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 4 Change to 3D Window again and start to draw the terrace slab by clicking the exterior corners of the short wall segments. Click only the four corners of the slab, we will add the curve later. Make sure that the straight, longer side goes along the internal side of the core skin of the exterior wall (the reference line).


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 5 After clicking the fourth corner, select the slab and click the edge that needs to be curved.The pet palette appears, choose the Curve Edge button and click on the inner side of the curved stone wall.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 6 Further offset the curved edge of the slab towards to the Stone wall by 0,15.

7 Switch off the 3D Cutting Plane by toggling on the Toolbar. The result is almost OK, but the texture on the slab is rotated, let’s make it aligned with the wall.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope 9 As a last step, select the slab, right-click and choose Edit Selected Composite.... In the Composite Structures dialog change the thickness of the Insulation - Fiber Hard to 0,20. Click OK to close the dialog.


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Chapter 1 - Creating the Building Envelope In This Chapter… You created the basic envelope of the building using: •

External DWG data for the terrain.

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations

Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations It’s now time to further develop the design by adding openings to the building. Let’s first add an external door to the project. ArchiCAD’s door, window and skylight objects are intelligent library parts; with a tremendous range of configuration and setting options due to their parametric behavior. This accelerates your work, makes the management of the project easier and allows you to design instead of drafting. This means in practice for example that you do not need to delete and look for another window object if you want to change its size, sill height, adjust its frame, sash, oversize, board or casing properties. You can even specify shutter options using various shutters and glazing types, and choose from a variety of handles. All these are available and valid for the very same window object.

Doors Adding an Entrance Door 1 In the 3D view navigate to see the entrance area of the building. 2 Activate the Door tool, and open its Settings dialog by double-clicking on its icon on the Toolbox or Info box. Doors are GDL objects and have parameters to control their appearance and behavior in the project. Open the Hinged Door Settings panel and use the arrow buttons to display the settings in thematically grouped format. These settings affect the 3D and 2D properties of the door.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 3 Type asymmetric in the search field at the top left of the dialog, to find all available asymmetric doors.

4 Select the Double Door Asymmetric 18 door object in the result list. 5 Set parameters as follows: •

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Reveal to Wall Core: -0,10 (the thickness of the insulation). To change from Wall Face press the little arrow button on the right.

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• Tags and Categories: Non-Load-Bearing Element, Exterior, Door. Click OK. 6 With Special Snap Points > Half option selected, move the cursor over the wall segment.


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You can also check the result on the floor plan. Select the door and click Flip on the Info Box, so that the door will open inwards.


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Adding Sliding Doors We need some additional doors facing the veranda. 1 Switch to the 0. Ground floor. 2 Open the Door settings and type sliding in the search field to find the sliding doors in the library. 3 Select the Sliding Door 18 and set its settings: •

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 4 Place doors on the left and right vertical walls starting right in the corner and one in the horizontal wall. Place the sliding door into the vertical wall by clicking on the intersection point of the traced dashed line and the external surface of the wall. This defines the external side, now click on the upper left side of the door to define the opening direction.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations Before placing the door into the horizontal wall, change the anchor to Side 1. Define the external side by clicking the intersection point of the dashed line and the wall face and click to the lower right side to define the opening direction.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations Use this anchor to place the other vertical door, click the upper right corner for the correct opening direction.

Multiplying Doors 1 Select the sliding door in the horizontal wall segment. 2 Click on its upper right corner to bring up the Pet palette. 3 Click the Multiply icon to bring up the dialog.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 4 Set 2 as number of copies and Distribute as method. Click OK.

5 Click the same corner point of the door, then click the intersection of the traced dashed line and the wall face to distribute the sliding doors evenly. 6 Hit Esc to remove selection.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations Note: You can change the 3D opening angle independently to the 2D representation. This way you can use the same element for visualization purposes. Select a sliding door and grab the opening hotspot to define an opening width.

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Adding Internal Doors To place internal doors, first we have to model some internal structures like the floor slab and partition walls. Now we have too many structures visible, which results in overlapping on the Gallery level.

Creating a New Layer 1 Change to the 1. Gallery floor plan. 2 The roof and rafters hide a big part out of the walls. Let’s open Document > Floor Plan Cut Plane… and modify Cut Plane height to Current Story to 0,80 from 1,10.


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3 The terrace slab is visible above the stone wall. Select the wall, right-click and choose Display Order > Bring Forward.

Creating the Floor Slab 1 Activate the Slab tool and set the followings: •

Offset to Home Story: 0,00

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Home Story: 1. Gallery

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Composite: Concrete Floor with Parquet

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Reference Plane: Top

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Surfaces: Floorboards - 03, Paint - Glossy White, Paint - Glossy White

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 2 We will place a slab which covers half of the space. Use the Rectangular geometry method and click the following points: •

the external top left corner of the core skin in the exterior wall

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the external halving point of the core on the right vertical wall

When finished select the new slab, right-click and select Display Order > Send to Back to hide the edges of the slab behind the wall structure. 3 Check the section to see the results. 4 Change the priority value of Insulation - Fiber Hard (insulation of the flat roof) to 645 from 420 so it would go below the brick skin.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations Creating Partition Walls We need some partition walls. 1 Open the 0. Ground floor. 2 Activate the Wall tool and set the settings as follows: •

Wall Top linked to 1. Gallery (Home + 1)

• Top offset to Top Linked Story: -0,46 - so the wall will end below the story level by the thickness of the slab. •

Bottom Elevation (to Project Zero): -0,05

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Reference Line Offset: 0,00

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Home Story: 0. Ground Floor

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Composite fill: Stud Partition

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Floor Plan and Section: All Relevant Stories, Projected with Overhead, Entire Element

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Override Outside and Inside Face Surfaces: Paint - Glossy White

• Tags: Non-Load-Bearing, Interior, Wall, IFC property: Interior Partitions (Manage IFC Properties > Apply Predefined Rules > OmniClass > search ‘Interior Partitions’) •

Layer: Interior - Partition

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 3 Select the Single geometry method and Core Center reference line method and draw a Ydirectional segment from the mid point of the stone wall. The wall will intersect with the stone wall as well, which is not correct so open the Composite Structures dialog again and replace the Air Space - Frame skin to Air Space.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 4 Select the wall, right-click and choose Move > Drag a Copy and move the wall 1,2 meters to the right. When finished, adjust the endpoint of the wall so that it touches the curved wall.

Creating Internal doors First, we add a sliding door. 1 To have the right wall thickness for the door settings dialog, pick up the parameters of the load bearing wall with the Pick up tool (pipette). 2 Activate the Door tool and type pocket in the search field. Select Pocket Door 18. Set the door settings as follows: •

Anchor Sill to Story 0 to 0,00.

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General Settings tab page: •

Pocket frame - on

Frame and Leaf tab page: •

Centered Leaf off

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Leaf Offset: 0,13

• Tags: Non-Load-Bearing Element, Interior, Door, IFC Interior Doors (Manage IFC Properties > Apply Predefined Rules > OmniClass >Interior Doors) Click OK.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 3 Place the first door to the lower left corner of the entrance room. There are two walls meeting at that point: click into the corner. 4 Click the upper-right arrow for opening direction so that the leaf will open in the right direction and the pocket will be placed between the two walls (in the insulation skin).

5 You can see that the door is not in a convenient position to enter the interior space. Select it, press Ctrl/Cmd +D and drag it to the right. Type d0,6 into the Tracker to move the door by 60cms. Deselect the door. Now, let’s add some more doors to the future WC area. 1 Activate the Door tool and set the door as follows: • Type: Door 18 (Hinged Doors 18 folder) •

Size: 0,75/2,10

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations Hinged Door Settings panel > Door Leaf Type and Handle tab: •

Door Leaf Type: Style 56

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Adding a Gallery Door We place a door into the external wall of the gallery, which is identical to the one at the entrance. 1 Open the 1. Gallery floor plan and choose the Ground Floor to be shown traced. Activate Transparent Fills and Zones from the Trace settings.

2 We want to have exactly the same door as the entrance door. To have all settings and parameters, we use the pipette (Pick Up tool) again from the Standard toolbar. 3 Activate the Pick Up tool and move the cursor over the door on the trace reference until the info tag appears with basic information about the door. Click once. Notice that the Door tool is activated at the same time. Note: If you have overlapping elements on the floor plan, you can hit the Tab key to switch between the elements.

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 5 Place a door at the intersection point of the short vertical wall segment on the right and the horizontal wall. Click to the bottom right quarter to define the opening direction. Use a guide line if necessary.

Note: The outer wall side you pick when you place a door or window sets the direction of sill and board. If you want to change the opening direction use the Flip command, which has no effect on the wall side settings.


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Windows Now we’ll insert new windows in the building.

Adding Windows on the Ground Floor 1 Open the 0. Ground Floor. 2 Activate Window tool and open its settings. Choose Window 18 from the Basic Windows 18 folder. Similar to doors, windows have endless variations of appearance thanks to the wide list of parameters. Use the tabs of the Basic Window Settings panel to check the available parameters in logical groups.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations Note that not only Custom Settings are available by default, but by clicking the corresponding button you can display all available parameters.

3 Set the settings as follows: •

Size: 0,60/0,60, Sill to Story 0: 1,80

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Reveal to Wall Core: 0,15

General Settings tab page: •

Board on, Sill on

• Tags: Non-Load-Bearing Element, Exterior, Window, IFC: Exterior Windows Click OK. 4 We insert the first window with automatic snap points in the middle of the slanted wall in the entrance room. Click the Special Snap Points options arrow and select Half and Between Intersection Points options. This way the program shows the snap points between point of i ntersections instead of the entire element.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 5 Place three windows randomly in the Stone wall, one for each room. We will organize the windows in the second step. Click the lower right arrows when defining the opening direction and choose external sides with the Sun cursor. When done, select the windows one-by-one and arrange them with the help of the special snap points. Select the middle hotspots on the external sides and move the windows until the snap points appear on the internal side of the wall.

Adding Windows on the Gallery Now we add some windows on the gallery as well.

Rectangular Windows 1 Open the 1. Gallery floor plan. 2 Activate the Window tool and change the current settings: •


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 3 The new window goes right above the pocket door from the ground floor. Use the trace to place the window above the pocket door.

4 Turn Trace and Reference off using the icon in the Standard Toolbar. 5 Select the window and click on any hotspots to display the Pet palette. 6 Select Multiply. Set 3 as the number of copies and the Distribute-1 method. Click OK. 7 Click on the top-left hotspot of the window as reference and click the top-left corner of the door as endpoint.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 8 Place two more windows at the midpoint of the gallery slab on both sides (use a guideline).

Modifying Windows Changing Type Although window types are represented as objects, you can change the type of an already placed window any time. 1 Select the two windows placed on the side walls. 2 Open the settings dialog and select the Round Window 18 in the Special Windows 18 folder. Change some parameters: •


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 4 Go to the 3D window to check the result.

Modifying Size in the 3D View As you develop the building model, sometimes certain views are more helpful than others, as when changing the height or position of a window.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations Resizing a Window First, we resize a window in the 3D view. 1 Select the right window in the curved wall in the 3D view. This is going to be the window of the entrance, so we have to make it bigger. 2 Click on the lower left or right corner to display the Pet palette and activate the Stretch vertically command. 3 Drag the cursor downwards. 4 Turn the Tracker on if needed and type 1,5.

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Adding Skylights Skylights are an integrated part of the BIM model. They are capable of recognizing the roof underneath and using important information from it, such as thickness or sloping angle. 1 Open the 1. Gallery floor plan. 2 Use the Measure tool to check the distance between same points of two rafters. This will be the width of the Skylight.

3 Activate the Skylight tool and open its Settings dialog by double-clicking on its icon in the Toolbox or Info box. At the bottom left of the dialog you can see various skylight types available out of the box. 4 Choose Skylight Flat Panel 18 and set the settings as follows: •

Width: 1,97 (as measured), Height: 3,00

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations General Settings tab page: •

No. of Horizontal Frames: 2

• Tags: Non-Load-Bearing Element, Exterior, Window •

IFC: Roof Windows and Skylights

Click OK. 5 Click the intersection point of the gallery slab and the rafter midpoint to place three skylights to the roof. Please note that the skylights will automatically be placed into the roof.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations Go to the 3D window to check the result:

Creating a Stair Using Library Stairs Let's place a stair into the interior. As for other generic elements and objects, various parametric library types of stairs exist. Activate the Stair tool and open its settings to see them. On the left side, predefined GDL library stairs appear. These are highly customizable prototypes and can be set by modifying the default parameters. Instead of choosing a default t ype, let's build completely new, custom stairs.


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Creating a Stair with StairMaker 1 Click on the Create Stair button above the preview area to open StairMaker.

2 Select Single Winder at Lower End type and click OK.

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Set the values in the order as shown in the picture below and don’t forget to lock the Total height, Upper part length and Number of risers of the lower side values:

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 4 Click OK and OK and save the Stair 1 to 1 to the embedded library. Click Save. Save. The new stair is now saved in the embedded library. Later on you can use Stair Maker to edit this stair and save it by overwriting or with another name. 5 Open the 0. Ground floor. floor. 6 Open the Stair Settings dialog Settings dialog again. Choose Stair 1 from the Embedded Library. •

Choose the top left anchor point in the preview picture.

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Floor Plan and Section: •

Show on Stories: Home & One Story Up Up - this will ensure that the stair will automatically appear on the Gallery level too.

• Tags: Tags: Load-Bearing Element, Element, Interior, Stair, Stair, IFC Stairs •

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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 7 Place the stair 0,15 meters 0,15 meters to the right from the door adjacent with the core skin of the wall, so that plastering and the edge of the stairs overlap.

Now we will cut a hole in the gallery slab. Open the 1. Gallery floor plan and select the slab. 8 Click on any edge of the slab to display the Pet palette and select Subtract from Polygon. Polygon.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 9 Select the Polygonal geometry method and method and click on the corners of the stairs. Make sure you cut the slab not only around the stairs, but below the plaster skin of the exterior wall as well:

10 Go to the 3D Perspective to Perspective to check the result.

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Foundation Structures This building has some simple underground underground structures only. only. We will use the already already created exterior walls as trace references to place the necessary foundations.

Creating Foundations 1 Open the -1. Foundation floor plan view. The existing walls can be seen with dashed outlines according to their Floor Plan and Section settings. Turn on Trace & Reference on Reference on the Toolbar to see the skins ski ns of wall composites, especially the load-bearing core structure. 2 Activate the Wall tool and tool and set the settings as follows: •

Wall Top: 0. Ground Floor (Home Floor (Home + 1)

• Top Top offset to Top Top Linked Story: -0,10 Story: -0,10 •

Bottom offset to Current Story: 0,0 (so that wall height is 0,90)

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Home Story: -1. Foundation

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Structure: Basic

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Building Material: Reinforced Concrete - Structural

• Thickness: 0,60 •

Reference Reference Line: Inside Face

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Reference Line Offset: 0,05

• Tags: Tags: Load-Bearing Element, Element, Exterior, Wall •


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3 Draw the wall segments, so the reference line of the foundation meets the reference line of the walls above. You can turn on the View > On-Screen View Options > Walls & Beams Reference Lines option to better see the reference reference line of the placed walls and use Chained geometry method for faster placement. Follow the reference reference line direction of the existing walls when placing the foundations.


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Chapter 2 - Openings, Stairs and Foundations 4 Space + click the curved stone wall to place the foundations. 5 The thickness of of the foundation foundation under the stone wall is not wide enough. Select Select that segment segment and change its thickness to 0,80. 0,80. 6 When finished stretch this foundation in both directions di rections using Angular stretch. stretch. Raise the Chord value Chord value with 0,10 m in m in both directions.

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Creating Pad Foundations under the Columns We also need foundations under the wooden columns. 1 Activate the Column tool and use the following settings: •

Column Top: 0. Ground Floor (Home + 1)

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Size: 0,50/0,50

• Top offset to Top Linked Story: -0,17 •

Bottom Offset to Home Story: 0,00

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Building Material: Reinforced Concrete - Structural

• Tags: Load-Bearing Element, Exterior, Column •


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2 Click the midpoints of the wooden columns to place the foundations.


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You set and placed entrance doors, internal doors, windows, and skylights into the building model with different snap options. Then, you modified the openings in 3D view.

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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones

Chapter 3 - Creating Zones In this chapter you will place zones in the rooms and create dimensioned model views, which can be part of the documentation. ArchiCAD incorporates a wide range of design documentation tools and techniques. Some of these tools will be briefly presented in this chapter. •

ArchiCAD’s Zone tool helps to identify 3D spaces and stores multiple attributes and properties associated with them. Rooms and groups of spaces (for instance, departments or areas with similar functions) can be easily identified with the help of colored fills Zone identifiers - or space stamps - can be assigned to them with a single click.

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ArchiCAD’s automatic and associative dimensions refer to project-specific locations. This means that you are free to develop and edit all the elements in your design project - the previously created associative dimension chain will always be automatically updated without spending any extra time on dimensioning.

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ArchiCAD’s detail drawing views are extremely helpful at the project documentation stage, since they allow you to reuse and further enhance your existing 2D details. These can be stored in various file formats, such as DWG, DXF or DGN, or you can create new details based on the model geometry.

Zones Zones represent rooms in the building. They are defined by categories in the Attributes section of ArchiCAD. ArchiCAD’s zones are real 3D spaces. You can use them to create conceptual space studies as well as to create detailed space lists and area calculations (see below). You can trim the 3D zone spaces to slabs, roofs or beams to create more accurate volume calculations. You can fine-tune the zone-related calculations and element subtractions to meet local standards below Options > Project Preferences > Zones. We will use the defaults now. Zones can gather information from the surrounding building elements, like door and window holes or roof trims.


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Zone Properties Zones can identify existing geometry as boundaries - walls, lines, polylines, columns, etc. Later on you can update zones so they follow the changes of the boundary geometry. Based on how you want to use zones, the automatic boundaries can detect either the reference lines or the contour lines of the walls. Later on, you can edit the edges of the zone with polyline editing methods or edit the zone body with Solid Element Operations. If there are no defined boundary lines or if you use zones before modeling the building itself, like in an early design phase, you can set the boundary lines manually with polyline editing methods.

Adding Automatic Zones 1 Open the 0. Ground floor in the Navigator. 2 Activate the Zone tool and open its Settings dialog. Set the parameters as follows: •

Zone Category: Education & Culture

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Zone Name: Exhibition space

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Zone Top: 1. Gallery (Home + 1)

• Top offset to Top Linked Story: -0,24 (thickness of the slab) •

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Zone Stamp panel •

Scale Sensitive: Off

Representation section: •

Show Floor Finish: On

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Show Measured Area: On

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Show Ceiling Height: On

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Frame Style: None

Finishes section: •

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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 4 The zone is set to automatic boundary detection using the inner edge geometry method. This means that the zone boundaries will be found automatically along the inner edges of the elements. Click inside the large room area to detect the boundary. The cursor changes to a hammer. 5 Click again to place the zone stamp.

Note: The point you click is marked with a small blue + sign. This represents the point around which the zone boundary detection recognizes the zone area. This means that if you draw a new boundary element between the stamp and the + sign, the zone will be updated based on the + sign.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 6 Repeat to create the additional smaller zones: •

Entrance: Communication & Access category, Top offset to Top Linked Story: -0,46 (thickness of flat roof slab), Floor Finish: Tiles.

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WC and Washroom: Technical Equipment.

Note: You can change the boundary of the automatic zones with polyline editing methods, but they keep the automatic behavior. This means that if you run the Design > Update Zones command, these automatic zones will re-calculate their area based on the boundary geometry around their + signs.

Adding a Manual Zone Now we go to the Gallery level to add one more zone. 1 Open the 1. Gallery floor plan in the Navigator. 2 Set Education & Culture category and type Gallery as name. Set Top offset to Top Linked Story to 0 and Parquet as Floor Finish. 3 Place the zone as before by clicking into the gallery area. We can see that the zone extends beyond the gallery slab and fills the hole of the stairs as well.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 4 Fix the zone by selecting it and clicking on the bottom edge. Use the Offset edge command from the Pet palette and move the edge to the slab edge.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 5 Now with the zone still selected use the Subtract from Polygon command from the Pet palette and Space + click on the edge of the stairs to remove that area from the zone.

Refining Zones in 3D Now we will further modify the zone geometry based on the surrounding building structu res. 1 Open the 3D Perspective view in the Navigator. By default zones are turned off. Let’s create a view where all building components appear as wireframe, while zones appear as solid elements. 2 To create such a view we will use layers. Open the Layer settings dialog (Ctrl/Cmd+L). Now set all visible layers to wireframe, except the Zones layer. To do that, select all layers by pressing the corresponding button and click the third figure from the left for any of the layers: all layers will be set to wireframe except the very first ‘ArchiCAD Layer’. Deselect all layers and click on the figure again for the Model Unit - Zone. Click OK. The 3D view changes automatically, but without the zones for now.


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3 Now, let’s show the zones. Go to View > Elements in 3D View > Filter and Cut Elements in 3D....


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 4 Mark the Zone checkbox and click OK. Zones appear with their default material - Glass.

5 Use the Orbit command to turn the Gallery zone and the roof to a comfortable position for selection. 6 Select the Gallery zone, right-click and select Connect > Trim Elements to Roof/Shell.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 7 Pick the roof and then the zone side you want to keep.

8 Change the layer and element visibility settings back to original (uncheck the Zone box in Filter Elements in 3D and set the layers back to Solid in the Layer Settings dialog).

Changing Zone Appearance on Floor Plan Based on the standards and your own taste you can widely customize the appearance of zones in floor plan views.

Adding Zone Fill You can set the fill origin and scale to display a more realistic pattern. 1 Open the 0. Ground Floor. 2 Select the three small zones and open the settings dialog. 3 Open the Floor plan panel and activate the fill by clicking on the Add/Remove Cover Fill button. Select Grid 30x30 in the list.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 4 For better visibility change all Zone Name Font Size to 2mm and Data Font Size to 1,5mm in the Representation section of the Zone Stamp panel.

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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones Color Coding You can color-code the appearance in two ways, by Zone category or by Fill Background Color.

By Fill Background Select any zone and change the background color on the Info Box:

Try different colors for the different zones. Note: If you can not see any background colors, check the Trace Reference settings. If the Transparent Fills and Zones option is selected and the Trace Reference is active, the background colors are off.

By Zone Category The other color-coding is to use Zone Category Colors. The advantage of this method is that if you change category color, all zones of the same category will change their colors automatically. 1 Go to Document > Set Model View > Model View Options.... Here you find stored override options for saved views. This ensures that you do not have to remodel the building because of the drawing standards and requirements. 2 Open the Override Fill Display panel to show the fill display options.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 3 Check Override Zone Fills.

This way the appearance will be dependent on the original zone parameters. Before going back to the floor plan, let’s change the detail level of the openings as well. Open the Detail Level of Door, Window and Skylight Symbols (ArchiCAD Library 18) panel. Here we can control the appearance of all openings together. Change to Middle 2 for both doors and windows.

This way all views that will use the Model View Option Combination we are about to save now will have the same level of detail.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 4 Click the Store as… button to save the current settings with a unique name. Enter 05 Building Plans - Zone fills as name. Click Store.

5 Click OK. The zones will appear by their category colors and the custom fills you set. Openings will be much better represented as well.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 6 Select all zones and turn Cover fill off in the Zone Settings Dialog Floor Plan panel. The zones will appear with their category color only, custom fills are turned off.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones Using Image Fills You can change the zone fill to represent the flooring material. This way the resulting floor plan can have a visual appearance. Select the Exhibition Space, click the Cover Fill: Add/Remove button and change its cover fill to Wood Parquet in the Info Box.

Creating Image Fills There is no predefined tiling image fill in the file, so we will create our own for the small zones. 1 Open Options > Elements Attributes > Fill Types... and select Wood Parquet from the list. 2 Click the New... button and set Ceramic Tiling as name. Set Image fill as type. Click OK.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 3 Click the Load Image button and find the White Tiles 01 GS.jpg image in the ArchiCAD Library 18 > Surface Catalog 18.lcf > Surface Catalog 18 > [TImg] Textures 18 > Flooring 18 > Tiles 18 folder. Click OK.


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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones 4 Set the Image Size to 0,60 (assuming that one tile is 0,3x0,3 m). Check both Drafting and Cover fills in the Availability and Screen-only Pattern panel. Change the screen-only pattern to a square by erasing the unnecessary pixels in the preview using left clicks. Click OK.

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Image fills provide an easy and quick way to make the representation more alive. 6 Go to the Gallery level and set the same image fill as for the Exhibition space and change the font formatting of the zone stamp as well.

Changing Zone Stamp Appearance Zone stamps are library parts attached to zones. You can customize their appearance by • • •

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Chapter 3 - Creating Zones Let’s customize the stamps. Go back to the 0. Ground Floor. 1 Select all zones and open the settings. • Open the Settings panel and define the order: Zone Name, Zone Areas, Finishes, Additional Tags. •

Delete all other rows by pressing the ‘-’ buttons next to the actual rows.

Click OK. 2 The Zone representation will change immediately, but there are things missing. We set the ‘Additional Tags’ row, yet it can not be seen. 3 Open the settings of the Exhibition space. •

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In the Settings panel, go to the Additional Tags page and check Show Additional Tags. Choose Create Sorting for the parameters, display data by Parameter Value and select OCCS - Space by Function as the first row.

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Now the Exhibition space zone is displayed correctly showing additional data in a standard compliant format. The same way we could add renovation status, fire ratings, space owners, descriptions occupancy, ventilation type and so on. Note: Additional custom data, even IFC related parameters can be displayed for zones which is extremely useful if there is a necessity to report using a standard, for example OmniClass or COBie. 4 Repeat the same Content Order settings on the Gallery level without defining the additional tags.

Note: You can either do the same process after selecting the gallery zone or especially in case of high-rise buildings with many stories and zones to modify - it is useful to select all zones from all levels using the 3D view. Turn on the visibility of zones again in the Filter elements in 3D dialog, select the Zone tool from the Toolbox and press Ctrl/Cmd + A.


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You modeled the spaces inside the building structures using the Zone tool. These elements display information about the zones on floor plan, and also can appear in 3D as real 3D elements.

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Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions

Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions Dimensions are an important part of the documentation. You can place dimensions to any projected model view (floor plan, section, elevation, etc.) and into 3D Documents. Now we add dimension chains to the design. ArchiCAD features associative dimensions, so that the created dimension points and chains will remember their original reference points. If you change the position or geometry of the dimensioned element, the dimension points and chains will update automatically and immediately saving you a lot of coordination time. It is possible to create dimensions manually or by using the automatic dimension feature. Later on you can add and remove dimension points to the chain.

Placing Dimensions on Floor Plan Automatic Dimensions 1 Open the 0. Ground Floor plan. 2 Activate the Wall tool and press Ctrl/Cmd+A to select all walls. 3 Activate the Dimension tool. 4 Open the Dimension Settings dialog to see the available dimension parameters grouped on tab pages. These settings drive the behavior and appearance of the placed dimension chains. Set the parameters as follows: Type and Font panel: •

Dimension Type: Linear Method

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Witness Line: Sized Height

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Marker and Witness Line Options panel: •

Marker Size: 1,00 mm

Dimension Details panel: •

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Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions 5 Go to Document > Document Extras > Automatic Dimensioning > Exterior Dimensioning.... 6 Take a look at the available dimensioning settings, check Place Dimensions on Four Sides checkbox and click OK.

7 Click on an element edge to define a direction for the dimension lines. This can be any horizontal or vertical edge (e.g. a side of a wall). Once you click the cursor changes to a hammer. 8 Click to set the position of the first inner dimension line on the same sid e where you set the direction before.


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Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions 9 Go to 1. Gallery level and turn on the Trace & Reference. We will use the existing dimensions to place the new ones so the documentation will be more consistent. 10 Select all walls, activate the Dimension tool and run the Automatic Dimension. 11 Use the same reference points to place the dimension lines you used on the ground floor. Turn off Trace and Reference.


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Editing Dimensions After placed, you may change dimensions, e.g. add/remove dimension points, change dimension text.

Dimension Chain Now we will modify the whole dimension chain, while the chain remains associative to the dimensioned points.

Dragging Chains Some dimension lines overlap with the section marker, so we have to reposition them.

1 Select the overlapping dimension lines. 2 Activate the Drag command on the Pet palette. 3 Move the cursor downwards, and type d0,5 into the Tracker.


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Deleting a Full Chain Take a look at the dimension chains. You can see that there are some identical dimensions on the same side. 1 Select the last row by clicking on the dimension line and hit Backspace or Delete. 2 Open the 0. Ground Floor plan and delete the duplicated dimension line at the bottom. Modify the dimension line/texts according to the section marker as before.


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Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions Adding Full Chains Manually Now add a new straight dimension line to the interior. 1 Activate the Dimension tool, and dimension the wooden columns of the veranda. Note: Before you click to place the dimension point, ArchiCAD highlights the element it will be associative to. In case of overlapping elements it may not be the one that we need. In this case hit Tab until the needed element is highlighted. This ensures that if the model changes the dimensions follow the right element. 2 When you are finished with the points, double click on an empty area. The cursor turns to a hammer. 3 Drag the cursor. A preview shows where the new dimension line will be created. Click to place the dimension line.

Note: If you mis-clicked on a point accidentally, but you do not want to include that point into the dimension chain, simply click on the point again, so the marker disappears. Now add a new curved dimension line to the project. 1 Activate the Dimension tool and change the geometry method to Arc Length in the Info Box. 2 Click on one of the corners of the curved wall. The wall is highlighted and small nodes appear at the endpoints. 3 Click the window corners to add points to the chain. 4 Double click to finish and drag to place the dimension line to a position above the wall.


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Adding Points Manually Now we add some new points to an existing dimension chain: the veranda columns. 1 Select the third dimension line. 2 Click on the line to display the Pet palette and select the Insert/Merge Dimension Point command.


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Deleting Points If the dimensioned element is deleted, the points automatically disappear from the dimension chain. But sometimes you may also want to delete individual points from the chain. Now we will get the full size of the building by deleting a point from the fourth chain.


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Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions Select the intermediate witness line above the newly added dimension line segment by clicking on it and press Del.

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Adding Level Dimensions On Floor Plan Now we add some level dimensions to the floor plan. Level dimensions can associatively link to a position of an element or be independent. 1 To place some associative level dimensions, activate the Level Dimension tool. 2 Open the Level Dimension Settings dialog to see the available dimension parameters grouped on tab pages. These settings define the behavior and appearance of the placed dimensions. Set the parameters as follows: •


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4 Click on the exterior pavement slab and the interior floor slab to place level dimensions. These dimensions are associative to the element, so their value will be updated if the parent element changes. 5 Change gravity to Mesh and place some level dimensions on the site mesh, typically around the building and on the level lines.


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On Section/Elevation 1 Activate the S-01 Building Section view.

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Click OK. 3 Let’s dimension the right side of the building, by clicking on points of the roof, slanted wall, slab, ground slab and foundation. Only click on points that will be highlighted with the circular marks. Double click to finish point selection and place the dimension.

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Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions 4 Select the slanted wall. 5 Click on its upper node to display the Pet palette and select the Stretch height command.

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Changing Markers In a Dimension Chain Depending on the dimensioned point, you may want to indicate whether the point is measured from top or bottom. In our dimension chain all markers show top dimensions. Now we change some of the markers to a bottom dimension. 1 With the Dimension tool active, hold down the Shift button and select the dimension markers you want to change. 2 Select the Bottom dimension direction on the Info Box. The selected dimensions change like this:


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Changing Dimension Text In some cases, you may put a prefix or suffix to the dimension text or simply override it. The reason for this may be that: •

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1 Open the 0. Ground Floor plan. 2 Select the text of the topmost dimension (10,500) by clicking on it.

3 Open its Settings dialog. 4 On the Content panel of the settings dialog, you can see the measured value, which is the default. Click the Custom Text radio button. An automatic text instantly appears in the line showing . If you keep this text, the value will follow the model changes. You can also delete the value and replace it with something else. First let’s add a note to the dimension: type Overall dimension: before the automatic value and change its pen color to 20 (red). The Displayed Value area shows the result which will appear on the screen.


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Chapter 4 - Adding Dimensions Note 1: If you completely override the automatic dimension value, it is recommended to change its Text Pen color, so later on you can easily check the manual values. If you want to restore the original measured value, simply select Measured Value radio button in the Text Settings dialog. Open all floor plans, elevations and/or create new sections and place the necessary dimensions.

Note 2: Dimensions are fully associative. However, we recommend placing them before putting the documentation together. This way you can avoid losing dimension points (because of deleted and re-modeled elements) or undimensioned structures.


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements

Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements To simulate and visualize how a space can be used, we will place some handrails, furniture, fixtures and site elements. These elements are stored under the Object tool in ArchiCAD.

Accessing Objects The ArchiCAD Library has a wide range of objects including furniture, sanitary fixtures, special building structures, site elements and so on. To open the set of available library parts, click the icon in the Info Box and review the Object Default Settings dialog. On the left side, you can see a folder structure by default. The self-explanatory folder names help you find the needed part by type.


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements However, you can also use the Search field, where you can find library parts by their names and tags. On the right side, you can see the parameters of the currently selected library parts. Objects are GDL elements, their settings are very similar to what you have already seen for doors and windows.

Loading Objects and Libraries If you open a new project, the Standard ArchiCAD Library is loaded. You can check and manage loaded libraries in the Library Manager dialog. You can open the dialog using File > Libraries and Objects > Library Manager...


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements This dialog contains all information about the loaded libraries and elements and their status. For example if it lists a missing object that does not exist in the default ArchiCAD library, then we have to load it.

Adding a New Library to the Project 1 Click on the Add button and browse the Training Textures folder in the extracted folder of this training guide. 2 Click Choose. 3 Click the Reload Libraries and Apply all the Changes item.

4 Click OK. The folder and its content is now added to the project. Objects created in the project are stored as Embedded library parts automatically. For example the StairMaker Stair is now visible in the list as a result of our work earlier.

Adding Handrails Let’s start the work by adding railings. The first objects we place are the missing railings on the Gallery level terrace and stair hole.

Placing External Handrails as Objects 1 Open the 1. Gallery floor plan. 2 Open the Object Settings dialog and type railing in the search field.


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements 3 Select Rail Wired 18 in the list of found elements and set its settings as follows: •

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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements 4 Click the meeting point of the terrace slab and the exterior wall.

5 Change the insertion point to bottom-left and place another railing on the other open side of the terrace.


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements 6 Now the first railing is too short, select it and click the mid-top hotspot. Select the Move node command in the Pet palette to modify the horizontal length of the railing and drag it to the intersection point with the stone wall.

7 Go to the 3D view to check the result. The posts of the shorter railing are too dense. Let’s remove one. 8 Select the railing and open its settings. 9 Set the number of posts to 2 in the Rail Settings > Handrail and Post section. Click OK.


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Placing Internal Handrails Now we will create a railing for the stair hole inside. It takes quite a complex path, so instead of using library parts, we will create a profiled wall. Custom profiles allow us to create any kind of extruded geometry. You can also create profiled beams and columns.

Creating Railing with Profiled Wall Profiled elements consist of a profile and an extrusion part. To define the profile, we have a special environment called Profile Manager. 1 Open the Profile Manager by the Options > Element Attributes > Profile Manager.... By default the project contains some predefined profiles.


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3 Add a name, Gallery railing and click OK. A profile editor window opens. Here you can define the profile with fills, but you can use any lines as well as construction geometry. The little x icon indicates the baseline position. 4 We want to create a wood/glass railing. First, we draw the bottom wooden par t. Activate the Fill tool and set Timber - Floor Fill Pattern in the Info Box. Click OK. 5 Select the Rectangular geometry method and draw a rectangle starting at the x sign, with a size of 0,05 by 0,20. Click on the x origin point and type x0,05 and y0,2. Press Enter.


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements 6 Change the fill pattern to Glass and draw another rectangle on top of the wooden one, 0,01 by 0,15. Draw the fill, then move it to the middle. Set the Special Snap Options back to Along Entire Element if necessary. 7 Select the fills and drag copies upwards, so the railing is 0,90 meters high.

8 In the Design Layers panel, check the Horizontal and Vertical Stretch checkboxes. Additional lines appear. These lines control what happens if you resize the wall height. If these are on, the part between the lines will be stretched. If turned off, the stretch height command is not available.


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10 Click the Store Profile button. 11 Close both Profile Editor and Profile Manager. 12 Open the 1. Gallery floor plan and zoom in to the stairs. 13 Activate the Wall tool and set the settings as follows: •

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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements 14 Select the Chained geometry method and click the corners of the hole. Double-click at the last node to finish placing the railing.

15 Draw another railing on the edge of the slab as well, starting from the right side.

16 Let’s check the result. Activate the 3D Cutting Plane from the toolbar, the cutaway cursors appear on all four sides of the plan.


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19 To show the full model content again, click the 3D Cutting Plane toggle on the toolbar. Note: On floor plans you can also activate the Marquee tool to achieve a similar result. Use the bold marquee to mark an area on all floors. Right-click and choose Show Selection/Marquee in 3D from the context menu. To show full 3D again right-click Show All in 3D from the context menu. Hit Esc to remove the marquee.


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Adding Furniture and Equipment Interior Elements To make the building alive, let’s place some furniture and equipment objects. We will use the Object tool again for this task. 1 Open the 0. Ground Floor. 2 Select and activate the Object tool and type WC in the search field. 3 Select the WC 18 object of the current library. 4 Set it as follows: •

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Click OK. 5 Set the Special Snap Points to Between intersection points and place the toilet into the middle of the brick-cladded wall.


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements 6 Now we only have to rotate the toilet around its anchor point. With the Object tool active, Shift + click to select the toilet. Right-click and choose Move > Rotate. Click the anchor point first then the point opposite and move the cursor upwards. Hold down the Shift key to snap to 90 degrees and click to rotate the toilet. Deselect it when done.

7 Open the Object settings again and find Basin 18. Change Bottom Offset to 0,80 and leave all other settings unchanged and click OK. 8 Place it in between the partition wall and the door and rotate it in a similar manner as the toilet.


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements 9 Open Object settings again, select Piano 18 and set its settings. •

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Click OK. 10 Place it into the right side of the Exhibition space. 11 Repeat the same with a Piano Bench 18, and place it next to the piano. Rotate both.

Now, we will add several chairs as a single object. The ArchiCAD library contains such layout-like elements, which can represent multiple objects. 12 Type chair in the search field and select the Chair Layout 18 object. •

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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements 14 Select the chairs and drag the top-left hotspot with the Move node command from the Pet palette. The intelligent layout automatically automatically changes the number of chairs according to the size.

As a result, you have a nicely furnished interior. interior. Go to the 3D window to take a look and make changes if needed.


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Exterior Elements There are many many options to make the exterior of our building more more realistic, such as: •

Tree ob objects. These GDL objects have the similar parameter settings as other objects. The advantage is that their visibility visibilit y on the different views works just like any other elements, however the 3D representation might generate generate too many polygons if detailed d etailed leafs and branches are set. Nevertheless, the energy performance of the model is to be evaluated with EcoDesigner STAR, STAR, the shading effect of these modeled environmental elements can be taken into consideration, for example when calculating solar irradiation.

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2D Bi Bitmaps. These are are image-like elements, elements, mostly used for renderings and and the most realistic 2D representations. representations.

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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements Considering the aspects above, we will now place 2D Graphical Symbols only on the Floor plan. Later on, when rendering in 3D, these will not be visible so we can place 2D Bitmap images for better visualization into the 3D view directly. The same way way,, these bitmaps will not be visible on the floor plans. 1 Open 0. Ground Floor. Floor. 2 Activate the Object tool tool and open its settings and search for tree. tree. 3 Choose Tree Plan 18. 18. • Tags: Tags: Non-Load-Bearing Element, Exterior, Exterior, ArchiCAD Type Type •

Layer: Site and Landscape - Terrain

Click OK. OK. 4 Place some trees around the building. Feel free to change the style and size of the trees.


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Chapter 5 - Adding Accessory Elements Note 1: Trees 1: Trees and other complex-shaped elements may contain large number of polygons, which can increase the processing time of the building model. If this problem occurs, it is recommended to set a simplified 3D appearance and hide the element’s layer in all model views where not needed. Note 2: Surface recognition works for all elements, this way 3D trees can be automatically placed at the correct elevation on the mesh.


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Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules

Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules The documentation of a building consists consists not only of the model and its projected views, views, but also detail drawings and schedules. The good news is that by having a detailed model we can automatically retrieve the necessary information.

Cleaning Up Sections and Elevations Before we place details, let’s let’s clean up the content of sections and elevations. 1 Open the 0. Ground floor and floor and take a look at the section and elevation lines. You can see that they are not entirely in the right position. 2 Use the hotspots of the section and elevation lines and the Drag/Stretch commands Drag/Stretch commands to align them, so •

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Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules 3 Break the S-01 section S-01 section line to make it more informative. Select the section line and click on the midpoint to activate acti vate the pet palette. Choose the Break Section/Elevation line option line option to move the bottom part and click so that it would go through the veranda door and the pocket door between the entrance and the exhibition space. Now move the horizontal part of the section marker by clicking on the midpoint and choose Move Section/Elevation line segment. segment. Move it to the entrance area.


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Solid Element Operations The mesh was not affected when the priority-based junctions were created, therefore we will have to use Solid Element Operations to solve its connections to the structures. Let’s subtract foundations, pavement and ground floor slab from the terrain. In order to easily select the elements, let’s go to the 3D window and filter the display. 1 Open the Find & Select palette (Ctrl/Cmd + F) and set the criteria: Element Type: Wall, and add Building Material as a Criteria and choose Reinforced Concrete - Structural. 2 Click the + button to select the concrete foundations. This will mean 7 selected elements. Modify the Element Type to Column and press + again. Now 11 elements are selected.


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4 Shift + click the mesh to add it to the current selection. 5 Right-click and select Show Selection/Marquee in the context menu. Now, the view is filtered to the selected elements.


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10 Select Subtraction with upwards extrusion from the list of operations and click Execute. The foundation and the parts above it are subtracted from the terrain mesh.


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Adding Details Details are part of the documentation, since they add valuable information on how the structures will be constructed structure-by-structure, part-by-part. In ArchiCAD, there is a dedicated place for these detail drawings. You can create both linked details that can be updated by the model content, as well as independent details that may contain typical details not marked in the model.

Creating Linked Detail 1 In the S-01 Section activate the Detail tool. 2 Select the Rectangular geometry method and draw a rectangle around the roof-wallskylight connection. Click above the top-left corner to place the marker.


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Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules 3 In the Navigator - Project Map, a new detail is created under the Details node. Open the detail.

4 The detail contains a snapshot of the model content represented by lines and fills. These lines will be updated if the model changes. Some lines are unnecessary; some need more detailed geometry. You can use the available 2D tools (lines, fills, dimensions) to finalize the detail as in the example below. Change the Scale to 1:10 on the bottom of the detail window.


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Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules 5 To be more consistent, use building material-based fills. Open the Fill Default Settings Dialog. By clicking on the arrow on the Fill Type button at the top, we can see the types of fills. Choose Cut Fill - Building Material, so we can use the same fills that we can see in the sections. Close the dialog. Note that the white areas are empty cut fills which have to be deleted otherwise the newly placed fills will not be visible. 6 Use the Suspend Groups button to be able to modify the loaded fills.

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Creating Unlinked Detail If you merge external content (DWG or PDF) as details which are not represented in any of the sections or floor plans, you can create independent details. 1 Right-click on the Details item in the Navigator and select New Independent Detail…

2 Click Create and open the new detail. It is currently empty. 3 We can use the Drawing tool to place a PDF. After activating the Drawing tool, click into the work area, so that the Place Drawing dialog appears, where you can select the PDF. Note: The Drawing tool allows you to place not only individual files, but also views from other ArchiCAD projects. This may be helpful if the layout book is in a separate file from the model, which is a typical workflow in large practices. Alternatively you can load external content through File > External Content > Place External Drawing. 4 Browse to the folder of this training for Frame Detail.pdf and click Open.


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Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules If you wish to work on imported vector-based PDF details, select the placed PDF, right-click and choose Explode into Current View.


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Creating Schedules This section will provide a conceptual overview of the various element schedules and component lists. ArchiCAD’s enhanced Interactive Element Schedule provides intelligent, two-way communication between the schedules and the design project, ensuring that even last-minute changes will be accurately and consistently reflected in the model and documentation. You can also export the created schedules in various file formats. By default, ArchiCAD contains some predefined schedules you can start with. These are located in the Navigator - Project Map, under Schedules. Element Lists can contain any BIM elements and all related properties, like volume of an entire wall. Component Lists can provide detailed information about sub-elements, like volume of certain skins of a composite wall. Later on, you can add these lists to the project documentation or save them as individual files like .xls format.

Modifying an Existing Schedule First let’s use an existing schedule as an example. 1 Open the 0. Ground floor. 2 Activate the Door List in the Navigator.


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Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules 3 The Schedule window opens. On the left side, formatting options are available to set up the arrangement of the fields. On the right side, you can see the schedule itself. Use the available zoom factors arrow to change the zoom to 150%.

The list items here are exactly the same ones you created before. Thanks to the BIM concept, these lists are not only automatically updated, but you also have access to the parameters, and can change them directly from the schedule as well. Beside the numerical values, you can also see graphical representation of the doors. Let’s see how we can customize the schedule.

Adding/Removing Parameters 1 Click the Scheme Settings… button at the top right corner of the schedules window to open the Scheme Settings dialog. Here you can modify the existing schedules, as well as create new ones. The existing schedules are listed on the Schemes tab of the dialog. The Door List is selected, because this is what we are going to modify.


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On the Criteria panel you can see the primary filter of the list. These are the elements that are filtered out of the model and displayed in the schedule with certain parameters. In our case it is Door, but you can change the criteria to any or even multiple elements. On the Fields panel, you can select any available parameters and add to the Schedule Fields. You can even change the order of the fields or set summary fields as well.


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Chapter 6 - Details and Schedules 2 Select the Home Story and Zone Name parameters in the list of General parameters with the Ctrl/Cmd key pressed and click the Add button to add them to the fields list. These are general parameters available for all BIM elements in the model. 3 Select the Height and Width parameters in the Window/Door list with the Ctrl/Cmd key pressed and click Add to add them to the fields list. These are element-specific parameters, which may vary depending on the Criteria you specify. 4 Select the Zone Number parameter in the Schedule Fields list on the right and click Remove to remove it from the list. Remove the Nominal WxH Size parameter as well. 5 Select the Width parameter and drag it to the third place using the arrow icons next to its name. Drag the Height below the Width parameter. Drag the Orientation parameter to the end of the list.


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Changing an Element's Parameters from the List Since the BIM elements themselves are listed in the schedule, you can change their parameters from here. For example, let’s change the size of the pocket door. 1 Select the pocket door in the schedule. 2 Click in the Width field and type 1.

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4 Switch back to the schedule window. Note: Sometimes, door and window schedules also contain dimensions or additional graphical elements. In ArchiCAD you can edit the previews easily. Click the 2D Symbol field of the pocket door and click the Annotate button. A separate Element Preview window opens with the 2D tools available. This way you can add any annotations, dimensions, or lines and fills.


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Creating a New Element List Let’s create a schedule for the foundations. This way we can calculate the necessary amount of concrete. 1 Right-click the Element node in the Navigator and select New Schedule....

2 Set Foundation as Name. Click OK.

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This way both the strip foundations below the wall and the pad foundations will be part of the schedule. 4 Now let’s set the fields. Add the Net volume and Type fields from the General parameters to the Schedule fields list. Move Type to the top and click OK.


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6 Let’s get back to the settings dialog. Click the rightmost icon at the Type field in the list to activate a little flag icon. This will result in a summary by type. Click on the middle icon at the Net volume field to display a sum icon. This will result an overall sum at the end of the list.

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Chapter 7 - Documentation Now, that we have finished modeling, we can focus on presentation and documentation. We will create saved views in the Navigator - View Map. Besides the model content, these views will also store important settings about the representation of the elements, layer combinations, scale and so on. So far we were working in the Project Map of the Navigator. In the Project Map you work with the model, while in the View Map you filter the content of your model according to your needs. This way you can create different types of plans (conceptual, structural, ceiling, fire, MEP plans, etc.) from one single model. It is very important to emphasize: when opening a View, the settings that were previously made in the Project Map will be overwritten. In other words, the Project Map inherits the settings stored in the Views. ArchiCAD has some default Views, clicking and opening these would override our current settings, for example the previously set Floor Plan Cut Plane height or the Zone view options. This action is undoable, but of course would not mean data loss in the model. In the first part of this chapter you will learn how to create the saved views for documentation purposes. In the second part of the chapter, you will use the 3D visualization tools in ArchiCAD. And finally, we will create and publish the layout book of the project.


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Creating Views The second tab of the Navigator is the View Map. By default this contains a predefined folder structure for architectural and structural plans filled with the existing stories, sections and elevations.

Creating a Folder in the View Map We will need a special folder for the 3D visualization, so let’s create it. 1 Open the Navigator - View Map by clicking on the third icon from the right in the Navigator.

2 Select the topmost item in the list - this shows the name of the project. 3 Right-click on it and select New Folder in the context menu. 4 Add 3D Renderings as name and click OK. The new folder is created at the bottom of the list.


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Deleting a Folder in the View Map Let’s say we are creating the approval documentation of the project and we do not need any specific structural documentation. 6 Select the Structural Plans folder in the list, and click the Delete button. Click Delete anyway in the upcoming dialog to confirm deletion.

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View Settings Let's modify the default views and save our current settings by overwriting them. Select the Floor Plans folder in the View Map. The bottom of the Navigator shows the Properties panel, here we can see some of the settings of this view folder. We can already see that it uses the 03 Building Plans Model View Option.

Earlier we chose to change the Model View Options and created a new one: 05 Building Plans Zones. This latter one is active in the Project Map, so opening a floor plan in the Floor Plans folder of the View Map would override our settings from before. In order to avoid this we can override the Floor Plans folder easily. Right-click the Floor Plans folder and choose Redefine with current window settings.

The Model View Options and all other View settings will change immediately to the ones we used until now in the Project Map.


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Since these are element level settings, they affect all other views automatically where the elements are visible.

View Dependent Settings Now we will set how the view itself will look like. These settings control the appearance of the elements depending on scale and drawing content. This way the B IM model can be represented in several ways. Before we start adjusting the settings, let’s review these.


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Chapter 7 - Documentation 1 Select the Site view in the Navigator and click the Settings button on the Properties panel.

The View settings dialog appears, where you can define: •

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2 Leave the settings as is, and click OK. Now let’s hide the markers. 3 Select a section marker, right-click and select Layers > Hide Layer. This is okay for now, but if you leave this view and return, they will be shown again, because in terms of the view settings this layer is not turned off. To make it permanently off we have two options: •

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Chapter 7 - Documentation 4 Open the Layer Settings dialog (Ctrl/Cmd+L) and select the Site layer combination on the left. 5 In the list of layers, find the layers of section and elevation markers. As you can see, hiding a layer will not make it turned off, so turn them off now. 6 Click the Update button to update the layer combination settings and click OK.


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Chapter 7 - Documentation 7 The views under the Floor Plans folder have Custom layer combination while the Sections folder has 04 Plans - Approval. Opening the default section views we can see that there is no terrain displayed. First let's change the layer combination of the Floor Plans folder. Select the containing folder and click the View Settings... button.


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Chapter 7 - Documentation 9 Open 0. Ground Floor view and check the result. The site and the trees have disappeared. Let's update the layer combination with the layers that contain these elements. Open Layer Settings, make sure that 04 Plans - Approval is selected and switch on the visibility for Site & Landscape - General and Site & Landscape - Terrain layers. Update the selected layer combination with the new settings and press OK. Remember, this will also fix the visibility of the terrain on the section views as well since they use the same layer combination.


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Chapter 7 - Documentation The ground floor is almost OK now, but we can see the cover fills of the pavement in the entrance area.

Select the pavement slab and select Display Order > Send to Back from the context menu. The appearance is better, but we can still see the pavement fill through the interior par tition walls.


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Chapter 7 - Documentation Select one of the walls and open the Building Materials settings. The wall contains the Air Space material. For a better visual representation this material is transparent in both 2D and 3D by default. Select the Air Space material and change its Cut Fill Background Color to white.


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Chapter 7 - Documentation This way 2D representation will the same as for Air Space - Frame, while in 3D air gaps will still be represented as transparent skins. As a final step, change the Plan Symbol Fill Background Pen color to 19 (white) on the Hinged Door panel of the Door Settings dialog of the door between the WC and the Washroom.

3D Documents from Floor Plans Let’s create now an exciting view for our documentation. With a few clicks we will be able to transform our 2D floor plan into a 3D documentation which is a great tool for making our design intents clearer for the client. 1 Open the 0. Ground Floor floor plan view in the Navigator - View Map. 2 Activate the Marquee tool and select an area around the building.


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Chapter 7 - Documentation 3 Right-click and choose New 3D Document from Floor Plan... in the context menu.

Click Create in the upcoming dialog. The 3D floor plan will open automatically and it has also been created in the 3D Documents folder of the Navigator. Let’s refine this 3D Document. The floor plan fills are not visible, only in the Exhibition area.


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5 On the Floor Plan Projection panel set Show down to 1 Story(s) Below, this way the terrain and pavement slab will be visible as well.


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Chapter 8 - Visualization ArchiCAD delivers state-of-the-art visualization and presentation tools: no expert knowledge is required to produce stunning renderings or fly-through movies. You can create 3D model views by navigating in the 3D window or placing cameras in the model. In both cases, you can return to the saved view any time and modify it if needed.

Saving a View Directly in 3D 1 Open the 3D window from the Navigator - Project Map and use the already known navigation techniques (zoom, orbit, walk) to set an exterior view of the entrance, like this:

2 Open the View Map in the Navigator and select the 3D Renderings folder.


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7 Turn Sun Shadows On and click OK. 8 To save this to the view, right-click the view in the View Map and click Redefine with current window settings.


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Creating Rendered Views There are three different, easy-to-use rendering engines shipped with ArchiCAD, giving you the opportunity to create state-of-the-art renderings in different styles at any stage of the design development.


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CineRender Engine & White Model Effect This rendering method is very handy in the early design phases providing quick white model images. 1 Activate the Document > Creative Imaging > PhotoRendering Settings command to set all the parameters and characteristics of the selected rendering engine. The PhotoRendering Settings palette opens.


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5 Hit the PhotoRender Projection button at the bottom of the rendering settings palette. The result appears in seconds.


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Chapter 8 - Visualization 6 Now, you can save it as still image directly from the 3D window to several image formats (.png, .jpg etc.) or you can save it as a view to be integrated into the documentation. Click the Save current view... button in the Navigator, with the 3D Renderings folder selected and save the current 3D window. Set Entrance - White as name. 7 Click Create. This view will be automatically updated if the model changes.

Sketch Engine This rendering method gives you quick, hand sketch-like images. 1 Choose a new scene on the PhotoRendering Settings Palette: Koh-I-Noor. 2 Render the image. The result appears quickly.


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Chapter 8 - Visualization 3 Click the Save Current View button in the Navigator with the 3D Renderings folder selected and save the current 3D window. 4 Set Entrance - Sketch as name.

Internal Engine This method gives you a more realistic appearance using material and texture settings. 1 Create a back view of the building by using the already known navigation techniques (orbit, walk, zoom), similar to this.


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CineRender Engine Now let’s try the high-quality, industry standard CineRender® rendering engine which can dramatically boost your presentation capabilities and is available out of the box with ArchiCAD. The CineRender engine by Maxon is fully integrated into ArchiCAD and is capable of all those still image rendering features as the full version of Cinema 4D.


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Chapter 8 - Visualization 1 Change the scene to Outdoor Daylight Fast on the PhotoRendering Palette and choose Partly Cloudy as a Weather preset (scene will change to ‘Custom’). Click on the Preview area to see it.

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Chapter 8 - Visualization 3 Activate the Object tool and open its settings. Set Home Story to 0. Ground floor and choose Deciduous Trees 18, Maple. Click OK and place it next to the building. This is a 2D bitmap image which will add more reality to the final result. 4 Let’s create a new layer for these bitmaps, open the Layer Settings and click New…. Define the layer as Rendering and click OK twice to close the dialogs.


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We will modify some surfaces, replace the concrete surface and add a new one to the walls. To make the interior more unique, first we create the new surface for the walls. 1 Go to Options > Element Attributes > Surfaces.... Select Paint – Ivory Black from the surfaces and click New…. Choose Duplicate and name it Interior Covering. Click OK. 2 Change the engine to Internal Engine next to the preview image. CineRender surfaces have many parameters that should be set properly, so instead of this we will create the surface with the internal engine parameters which do not need that expertise. When done, we will match the internal engine settings with the CineRender settings. This way we can transfer the settings in between engines. •

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Click OK. 2 Place some lamps on the gallery slab. Click Show Layer when prompted. The gray rectangle helps you to position the lamps on the bottom surface of it. Arrange the lamps precisely on the 0. Ground Floor view in the Project Map, so that it inherits the view settings of the 3D window. Change back to 3D in the Project Map when done. Now let’s add a pendant lamp over the piano. 3 Open the Lamp settings again and select Pendant Lamp 18. •

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4 Place the lamp anywhere hanging from the roof over the piano. ArchiCAD will connect the lamp to the roof if you move it after placing it. Select it and click the center-bottom hotspot to drag the lamp lower hanging on a longer pendant.


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6 Select the chairs and set the surface to Wood – Walnut Vertical the same way. 7 Choose the Indoor Daylight Fast scene in the PhotoRendering Settings palette. Uncheck Detailed Settings and move the Sun intensity slider to 30% and the Lamps’ intensity slider to 100%. These sliders are always set to a default value for the scenes, but with the slider we can easily modify the values globally. Choose Bluenight weather preset and render the image.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design In the design process, you have to communicate your ideas with the other stakeholders in the project, like the owner, engineers and constructors. All of these usually need different formats that are suited to their applications. ArchiCAD provides users with efficient and fine-tuned publishing procedures. ArchiCAD also gives the option to publish fine-tuned and target-specific, tailored project documents: you can use specific layer sets and freely turn off all the fills and hatches, for instance, when you share your project data with your structural engineer. Conversely you can turn on all the necessary fills and related layers when assembling project documentation set for your landscape designer. And the best part is that you can remotely share your design-development project data with clients and colleagues for review and mark-up regardless of whether they have ArchiCAD installed or not.

Traditional (2D) Formats The traditional way of documentation is to publish sets of projected views, like floor plans, sections, elevations, details, and some renderings. The live model projections ensure that all the published project views and documents will be fully updated and present the current - latest - design stage. You can be sure that last-minute change to the gallery railing will be updated in a consistent manner in all the other corresponding views (plans, sections, elevations, schedules, renderings, etc.).

Creating a Layout Book ArchiCAD provides you a hassle-free and comprehensive layouting function right out of the box: the Layout Book lets you layout various project views, as well as other materials from different sources, with all the tools you need to produce high-quality working drawings and paper-based presentations that will be easily understood by engineers, construction par tners and clients.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design With ArchiCAD you will spend less time on documentation! The BIM project model is at the cutting edge in effective documentation and management. Construction documents and files can be derived without any additional software and practically no repetitive work. Automatic page numbering, multiple master pages and intelligent title blocks reduce tedious work and makes compliance with office standards easier, thus saving you time. Once all the views are set, you can easily create virtual ‘sheets’ in the Layout Book area of the Navigator. The standard template contains a predefined set of layouts based on the local standards. If you use a localized version of the program, you may find different layout and numbering structure here. We are using the international version during this training. Let’s explore the content of the layout book first.

Changing Section/Elevation Settings 1 Click the Layout Book icon of the Navigator.

2 Click on some floor plans and sections/elevations to see the content. The placed drawings automatically show the model.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 3 Open the A.02.4 E-04 West Elevation layout. This appearance is nice, but it is does not meet our standards. We need more graphical details, like textures and shadows.

We can set this for all our sections and elevations together. Let’s start with elevations. 4 Go to the Project Map page of the Navigator and select all elevations. Click the Settings button on the Properties area.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 6 Open the West Elevation view in the Layout Book area of the Navigator. The graphical appearance will be updated. It is almost perfect, but some parts might be faded. This happens if the elevation distance area is too close.

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Properties Here you can set the scale and aspect ratio, as well as the anchor point. You can also choose a pen set and colors that will set the printing/plotting style. Change to Black and White in the Colors list to overwrite color settings. This way, all lines will be printed in black, keeping the pen weight of the original pen set.

Frame The drawing has a boundary that can have any shape. By default it is rectangular, adjusted to the drawing’s content. By default it is screen-only, but you can make it printable too. Leave the settings as they are.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design Click OK. Please note that the appearance of the drawing has changed to black and white and the title appears at the bottom.

Changing Master Layout of Existing Layouts If you zoom out you can see that the sheet is a lot bigger than needed. We have two ways to solve this problem. We can put more drawings on the same sheet or we can change the sheet or use another one. These are called Master Layouts and stored in the Masters folder of the Navigator Layout Book.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design You can create or modify any of these masters and use them as bases for the layout book. You can also place information on them (title blocks) that will be visible on all layouts that use the same master as base. You can change the master layout of single and multiple selected layouts and folders too. All you have to do is to select the layout and select the right master in the list under the Properties area of the Navigator. 2 Change the master of the West Elevation to A4 Portrait.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 3 Select and drag the drawing to the right position. Modify the drawing frames on the sides to fit it onto the layout if necessary.

4 To set the same master for all layouts in the A.02 Elevations folder, drag the A4 Portrait master on the folder in the Navigator. To adjust the drawings on all elevation layouts you can use the Trace reference. 5 Open the A.02.1 E-01 North Elevation layout. 6 Right-click on the A.02.4 E-04 West Elevation layout and select Show as Trace Reference.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design Creating New Layouts Now we create the section layouts in a separate folder in one run. 1 We will use the Sections folder in the View Map, and simply drag it to the Layout Book . To see both tree structures, we can use the Organizer. You can open it using the top-left button of the Navigator.

The Organizer’s interface seems like a double Navigator. You can open different tree views on both sides and drag and drop content between them. 2 Open the View Map on the left side and the Layout Book on the right side.


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In this view, you have access to its content. You can place any 2D content here, including text, fills, lines, images, etc. You can also copy and paste these elements from one master layout to another. 2 You can see normal texts and texts with # sign at the beginning. These texts are so called ‘Autotext’ elements. The advantage of using these is to retrieve information from BIM instead of typing the text manually. Let’s see what information we can use as Autotext. First delete all texts from the first two cells of the top row. Activate the Text tool and double-click in the empty cell on the left. The Text Editor palette appears. 3 Click the A (Insert Autotext) button.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design An organized list of available information appears. You can sort them by category. Let’s fill in the client data in the empty field of the title block. 4 Select Client Details in the Category list.

5 Place and format the text lines to include the following. Use the formatting tools like pen and text alignment. Hit Enter to start a new row.


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Click OK. There are some other fields related to layout properties. These will be filled only when you create a layout based on the master. 9 Delete the middle part of the line in the middle between the empty cells.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 2 In the Grid Setup dialog, Setup dialog, set the settings as below:

Click OK. OK. 3 Check the Set as Default for New Layouts box and click Create. Create.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 4 Create a new layout subset and type Renderings as Renderings as name.

5 Open the Organizer. Organizer. 6 Create a new layout in the subset and name it Renderings too. Renderings too.


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The views are positioned according according to the grid, but currently currently they are too big. 8 Select the drawings on the layout and open the settings. 9 On the Properties panel Properties panel set the magnification to 30. 30. Turn Turn off the title and title and click OK. OK.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 10 As you can see, the drawings on the layout are not the rendered images. Select the four rendering views in the View Map and open View Settings.... Settings....

11 In the 3D Only panel change Generate in to PhotoRendering Window. Window. Click OK. OK.

This way opening the views will be generated generated as renderings instead of the 3D Window view.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 12 Go back to the Layout Book , select the Renderings folder, Renderings folder, right-click and select Update. Update. The renders are going to be generated again.

The Project Project layout book will always be automatically automatically updated as the project develops, develops, since all the drawings and sheets are linked to their source master content, so if any of the source information changes, ArchiCAD will instantly regenerate and update all the layouts automatically. automatically.


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Publishing ArchiCAD’s publisher functionality is a powerful tool for sharing custom tailored project documents using various file formats, including DWG, DGN, DWF, PDF and many more, ensuring that anyone will be able to view the results of your work on both the Windows and MacOS platforms. All the publishing parameters need to be defined and set only once as your project design progresses. The Publisher contains two sets by default: Views and Layouts. The default file format is PDF.

The Publisher sets page of the Navigator has two levels: you can display the list of available sets, or the content of a selected set. Use the arrow next to the set name to go a level up to display the list of available sets. Double-click one of the items to see the content of it. The easiest way to create new Publisher sets is by using the Organizer. Once you create a new set, you can easily drag and drop any view map or layout content. You can set a generic file format for the whole set or by items and subfolders.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design Publisher Set Settings 1 Go one level up and select the 2 - Layouts set from the publisher sets. 2 Click the Publishing Properties… button on the Publishing Properties area.

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If you choose Create single file option, the different drawings will be binded to one single document. With Create a real folder structure selected the files and folders are saved exactly with the same hierarchy set in the publisher set, while Create flat file structure option saves all files on the same level without hierarchy. For now let's choose the second option. Click OK.

3 Double-click the 2 - Layouts publisher set to open its content. In the Properties area you can see the name and page size of each page that is selected. In the Format area you can the file type and additional options depending on the file type chosen.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 4 Select the topmost item in the Publisher Set. It is the default main folder of layout hierarchy that contains all documents for publishing. It is named after the title of the project, in our example 'Training Series 3'. Click Document Options... in the Format panel. 5 Click PDF Options... in the upcoming dialog. Mark the PDF/A archive checkbox in the PDF Options dialog. Click OK for both dialogs. Now all layouts will be saved as PDF/A documents which is usually a must for authority submittals.

6 Unmark Merge to one PDF file checkbox to keep the published set in separated pdf files. Leave all other settings as they are and Publish the set. 7 The publishing process starts and saves your pdfs one after the other. When it is finished, close the Publishing... dialog and check the result at the location you specified before.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design Creating New Publisher Set Let’s duplicate the Layout publisher set and create a set in DWG format. 1 Go one level up and select the 2 - Layouts set and click the Duplicate Publisher Set... button.

2 Select the newly created set and rename it 3 - DWG. 3 Double-click on the set to see its content. 4 Select the topmost level (Training Series 3).


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 5 Change the file format to DWG in the Format area. All layouts in the set change their icons automatically to DWG.

6 When it comes to publishing, you can choose whether you want to publish the whole set or just a part of it. Next to the Publish button you find a drop down list with three options: selected items, layouts in current issue, entire set. This way, you can even batch-publish the documentation with one click. Pick some elements in the set and publish them using the selected items option. 7 The program updates all affected views and saves the files.


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BIM-Based Documentation We have covered a lot of topics in this training session, but we are confident you will see how easy it is to use the ArchiCAD Virtual Building. You may have found the process different from traditional 2D CAD methods - which have clearly reached their limits and are increasingly being replaced by the next generation Building Modeling and simulation solutions. The creation of a new building however demands joint effort, streamlined teamwork and close collaboration with other disciplines. GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD, through its multi-user environment, open architecture and seamless collaboration, puts you - the architect - fully in command when taking on this challenge.

IFC Today, 3D-based data exchange plays an ever-greater role in the design process. When you reach the phase of having to share the design with engineers and others who use their own 3D design software, the best way is to create an IFC format file. In our example we will communicate with a structural engineer. Structural engineers are not interested in the finishes and furniture, only the load-bearing structures of the building. So first we will filter the display, then we will save an IFC file that best fits their requirements. This way our workflow will be smooth and easy. 1 Open the Entrance - OpenGL view in the View Map of the Navigator. 2 Open the Layer Settings dialog. 3 Having the 04 Plans - Approval layer combination selected, click the New... button at the bottom left to create a new layer combination that you can rename any time. Name it 11 IFC. 4 Hide all unnecessary elements of 11 IFC by turning off the layers: •

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Click the Update button to update the layer combination. Click OK. Note: The opened 3D view will use this layer combination temporarily only, which means that if you reopen the view it will use the layer combination that i s set and can be seen in the Properties area below the View Map. To change the layer combinations, open the Settings and select another layer combination.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 5 Select Document > Partial Structure Display....

6 Select the Core of Load-Bearing Elements Only option to hide all unnecessary composite layers and click OK.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 7 Select View > Elements in 3D View > Filter and Cut Elements in 3D.... 8 Uncheck the box of Window, Door, Roof and Skylights to hide them.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design 10 Save this view in a new View Map folder, called IFC. All settings, including filtering and partial structure display are saved with the view. Create the new folder with the New Folder… button below the View Map. Select the folder and click the Save current view… button.

Note: Opening the Entrance - OpenGL view will again show all those layers that you turned off when creating the IFC view. Opening the IFC view again will only show the layers that were turned on when the view was saved. 11 Now select File > Save as… Select the IFC 2x3 file format. Select Visible elements (on all stories) to export the content of the current 3D window only. Use the General Translator. ArchiCAD contains a series of predefined translators to ensure smooth work with different programs. If you know which application your engineer is using, you can choose an optimized one.

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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design Alternatively you can publish all views of the View Map as IFC files via the Publisher. Open the Organizer, create a new publisher set and drag the IFC folder from the View Map into it. Now you can select IFC 2x3 as a file format to publish to and publish with a click just like earlier. This way you can predefine specific sets for structural or MEP engineers and share the continuously updated IFC models of the design process with them easily.


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Chapter 9 - Sharing Your Design Note: you can check the content of the IFC file by using various IFC viewers. These applications are usually free. If you open the file, you can see that all geometry is kept exactly, as well as materials, layers and other information. If we select any elements, all available parameters appear. Beams remain beams, walls are walls and so on. There is no data loss.


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Chapter 10 - Revision Management

Chapter 10 - Revision Management Due to the iterative nature of the design process, there are many versions of the actual project, which have to be continuously managed. Several versions of the project are published due to the number of revisions. These changes have to be documented, the affected layouts have to be selected and marked, the published documentation has to be updated. ArchiCAD has a smart and intelligent revision management solution to make this rather time -consuming and errorprone task automatic, letting architects focus on their core business – the design process. ArchiCAD supports the traditional, drawing and layout based revisioning which includes visual highlights (revision clouds) and also introduces a new, BIM-based revisioning where the focus is on being able to find the layouts that were affected by the changes of the project therefore making the whole documentation process easier. Let’s see how revisioning works.

First Issue Before we could start marking the changed elements and highlight the changes we have to create our very first issue which will contain the whole documentation set at its current state. The revised versions will be collected from this point. We will use a special palette for most of the revision management-related task, the Change Manager.


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Chapter 10 - Revision Management 1 Open the Change Manager using the Project Chooser button at the top left of the Navigator. The top part of the palette will show the changes, while the bottom will collect the elements that are related to those specific changes.

2 Click Issue History.... 3 The Book Settings dialog opens, click New Issue. 4 Add the name Schematic Design to the issue and click OK.


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Chapter 10 - Revision Management 5 The first issue is created containing all the layouts of the Layout Book, marked with blue color. Later all the changed layouts will be marked like this for easier identification.

6 Click Close Issue and OK to close the dialog. Now we can start highlighting the noteworthy changes of the project.


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Creating Changes The entrance area currently has the pavement from outside as a floor slab. This will change now and we will highlight the change. Open the 0. Ground Floor view in the View Map. 1 Select the pavement slab and cut the entrance area part of it by using the Subtract from Polygon and Curve Edge commands of the Pet palette.


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Issuing Let’s find out which layouts were affected by this change, probably the floor plan and the section will have to be re-published. 1 Open the Layout Book and right-click on the topmost item (the Layout Book of the project) and choose Update. This will update all drawings placed on layouts (the renderings as well!) and find where the marked elements appear.


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Chapter 10 - Revision Management Apparently there are more layouts affected than we expected. Remember, the modified slab element appears on these layouts in some way, that is why the layouts are highlighted. We will sort out these later. For now, let’s open the S-01 Building Section in Section in the View Map and highlight the slab change visually here as well. 3 Open the Change tool settings. settings. Instead of creating a new change again, change the marker type to Place linked Marker and Marker and choose the Ch-01 the Ch-01 – Slab change. change. A Change can have many revision clouds linked, but revision clouds can belong to one Change only.


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Chapter 10 - Revision Management 4 Click OK and OK and draw the cloud around the slab part in i n the entrance area. The marker will also become part of the Element list of the Change Manager.

5 Let’s create the revised issue now. Open Issue History… in History… in the Change Manager. Manager. Click New Issue and Issue and Continue Anyway in Anyway in the upcoming dialog. Add the name Construction Revision and click OK. OK.


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The same way it is always possible to add layouts manually to an issue if you you believe that for some reason it is relevant by clicking the Add the Add Layout… button. Layout… button.


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3 Pick up the parameters of the Revision History H istory Table with the Pipette and inject them to the Revision History Table on the A2 Landscape layout. Landscape layout. Open various layouts, the highlighted ones will have a 'Work in Progress' text appearing above the revision history table meaning that the layouts contain changes that have not been issued yet.


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New Issues Let’s change some windows and document the changes in an upcoming issue. We still have some layouts highlighted and we know that we would not want to use them from now on. 1 Right-click one of the highlighted layouts and choose Layout Settings… 2 On the Revision History panel click the X mark besides the Change so it will not be associated with the layout anymore.

Click OK to close the dialog and repeat the same steps with all remaining highlighted layouts. Once done, you can continue marking the new noteworthy changes.


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