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Create Continuous Contours
I’m sure we’ve all had surveyors send us wonderful topographical plans with contour height labels in the middle! The frustrating thing about his obviously being that you can’t just simply magic wand on...
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Making a Zone Legend
If you are using zones and wanting to make a Zone Legend, you will find that the colors for the the zones are not available from the standard pen sets. To get around this, simply place and additional...
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Setting up a nudge
A quick way to move elements on the screen is to nudge them. Select one or more placed elements, and then while holding down your Shift key, simply use your arrow keys (Left/Right/Up/Down) to move the...
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Aligning a texture
In some situation you may want to align a material to certain point. In the example below, you will note that the tiles seem to be setting out from some random position In order to fix this, simply...
View ArticleNew user or needing a refresher course
No matter which category you fit into there is a very good chance that by using the Graphisoft Interactive Training Guides (ITG’s) you will pick up some good tips. A quick summary of these are as...
View Article32 bit reminder
Now that ArchiCAD 17 is being released it worth reminding you that this will only work on current 64 bit operating systems. This means that all 32-bit machines will not be able to run ArchiCAD 17 Some...
View ArticleOnline Certification and job postings
If you are wanting to advertise your skills to potential viewers as a BIM Genius or ArchiCAD whizz, why not look at getting online certification? Graphisoft have an online test that anyone can take...
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What is the purpose of your walls?
Most of the time the walls we place are designed to do more than just separate rooms from each other hold windows. Some walls are Load Bearing, some aren’t, Some define the Exterior walls, some the...
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Zones in rooms with internal walls
In the Example below I am wanting to place a zone that covers the entire Bathroom area. If I simply click inside the bathroom the Zone tool will stop at the Glass walls I have placed to create my...
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Model like you would build
For framed buildings like those in New Zealand it may be useful to model how you expect the building to be built. Taking your building to the next step could be actually adding the Wall Frames using...
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Referencing Consultants drawings
Do you have situations where you might want to reference the same point of a building to both an Architectural detail drawn in ArhiCAD and a consultants drawings authored in another software package?...
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Use 3D Text to “Stamp” A wall
In the example below I am going to use the 3D text object to create a negative stamp into my wall. The stamp is going to represent the address being stamped into the boundary wall. First create your...
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Create a Finial with Extrusions.
If you need to create a finial for a roof you may use Extrusions: 1. Save the finial half cut drawing as a preset. Here is a link to another quick tip about Custom Profiles: http://wp.me/p2VWtV-2K0 2....
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What Elements can not have a renovation status
For those who are still getting used to the ArchiCAD renovation tool, it can be extremely useful for renovation projects where you can show the project in different stages of construction with the help...
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Partial Structure Display
When using Composite Structures you can set the composite Component Types (Finish, Core or Other) then use Partial Structure Display to turn off portions to more clearly represent your model....
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Easy reference for all the ArchiCAD toolbars
Remember that toolbar you used in the past that was really useful? Cant remember the name? It happens to the best of us & we often find ourselves opening each toolbar till we find the one we...
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Setting out your beams
When placing beams the first height you are asked for is the thickness of the beam. This thickness is always measured from the top surface downwards. This surface is also important when considering...
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Create A Wall Framing Plan
As with everything in ArchiCAD, walls have the ability to to have a unique identification label once we have checked that all the walls have unique ID’s, we can use the label tool to label each wall,...
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Finishing off your walls
In the situation below I have a timber framed wall that has been finished without a door or another wall to wrap against. As you can see the result is an uncovered wall core. Obviously this is not the...
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Make your Teamwork messages more visible
Adding different numbers of spaces to the end of a Teamwork message results in different looking pop-up windows for your addressee. ArchiCAD messages are a bit subtle by default so this may help make...
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