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A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad

A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad

By : Stefan Boeykens, Ruben Van de Walle
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A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad

A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad

4.9 (9)
By: Stefan Boeykens, Ruben Van de Walle

Overview of this book

A BIM Professional’s Guide to Learning Archicad is a comprehensive introduction to all that Archicad has to offer for creating 3D models, 2D document extracts, and related outputs. This book is not a click-by-click series of recipes, but rather focuses on helping you understand why and how Archicad works by providing realistic examples and expert tips. The book gradually introduces you to Archicad tools using ample examples. It then helps you master its complexity through clear modules, allowing you to start your first project quickly, gain useful skills in subsequent projects, and keep using the book as a source for insights into the software. You’ll start with the basic modeling of construction elements and then move on to adding roofs, stairs, and objects to the project. Next, you’ll dive into basic drafting and 2D views for creating 2D output, and grasp how to use attributes and more advanced modeling tools for designing curtain walls and sites. The concluding chapters will show you how to extract and visualize your data and automate the publishing of your extracts and 2D documents into a variety of output formats. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of Archicad, how to implement it efficiently in your architectural projects, and how BIM can improve your overall design workflow.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Archicad – Project Setup and Essential Modeling Tools for Your First Residential Project
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Part 2: Becoming an Archicad Professional – Learn About Archicad Tools and Settings to Create and Publish Any Type of Project in Full Detail

Linking reference drawings

Just like CAD software, Archicad allows a designer to use existing drawings as a reference when modeling or to compare with. Especially for renovation projects, this is a good approach, as it allows you to place the existing context directly inside your modeling environment, at full scale.

However, with experience, we also learn that the unforgiving nature of an integrated 3D/2D environment tends to bring problems upfront, for example, it is common that discrepancies between a plan and section remain unnoticed in a traditional drawing-based approach, yet they need to be dealt with in a full 3D modeling approach. And to be totally clear, this is a strong added value of the BIM approach: avoid errors and contradictions between the different representations.

There are a few commands you can use to add an external drawing to your project:

  1. Go to File > Open. While this would appear to be straightforward, it actually starts a new Archicad project...

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