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Can’t Orbit
On very rare occasions, the Orbit control stops working. This can result in sensations of helplessness, confusion, rage and even panic. The good news is, it’s easy to fix if you know how. Chances are...
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Multiple Building Materials
You may find in V17 that there is potentially a need to create multiple copies of the same building material for use in different situations. One example I discovered was Polystyrene insulation. Even...
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How to Change Default Electrical Symbols
Each electrical component and wall plate includes a 2D symbol. The symbol can be customized to suit your office standard, and the customized symbol can become the default setting. For instance, you...
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3D document for Mid Floor framing plan
One of the things we get asked frequently for is the ability for walls to show over the top of beams when creating a floor framing plan. Now thanks to the 3D Document Floor Plan display we can finally...
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Differentiating between joists and blocking
A common frustration when using the beam tool is how to get the beams to show separately to blocking set between. No doubt we are all familiar with this We can now use the Floor Plan 3D document to...
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Give it a meaning!
Did you know that walls can be defined in more ways than just length, height and width? If we open the Tags and Categories section of the wall properties dialog box, we can define the Structural...
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Mesh Ridge Sharpness
In the Mesh tool we have 3 options under the Model Tab. If we start of with All Ridges Sharp, we can see that the mesh becomes very triangulated. This is the simplest form for the computer to generate,...
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Home zoom
Home Zoom was commonly used in previous versions of ArchiCAD & was an easy way to quickly go back to a common reference point that you predetermined. To do this go to the 2D view you want &...
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Setting up your mesh
Before we start to setup our mesh, we need to know what height to set it out to. Have a look at your Surveyors information and find the lowest height supplied. In my example below the lowest height...
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Don’t get too comfortable
One thing I find myself saying a lot when running our training courses is ‘Experiment with the program, One of the best ways to learn is to push buttons and see what they do!’ As humans, we are by...
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The value of a good mouse
During training I often highlight the importance of getting a good mouse for your computer. The mouse has become our main tool to complete our tasks especially when it comes to ArchiCAD. If you were a...
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Story Settings
When setting up your project, try to avoid using negative stories. We should have our mesh created on the Zero story and the first constructed floor goes on Story one. The number of the Story really...
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Door and Window Markers
I quite often get asked why door and window markers aren’t showing up on the floor plans. 9 times out of 10 it is simply because the person is using the wrong Model View Option. These options allow us...
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Open doors in Fly-Through
You now already from a previous post how to enable the ‘doors opening in animation’: http://blog.cadimage.com/2010/09/tip-of-the-day-18062008/ Remember to enable to ‘Rebuild the model for each frame’...
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Electrical model view combination
If you want to have a model view combination for an electrical plan, you can load it from the Cadimage extras folder located in: \GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD 17\CadimageTools Extras\Electrical
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Assist your QS
Since you have build a perfect 3D representation of the proposed building it seems a waste of time for the Quantity Surveyor to take a scale ruler to a set of 2D drawings to figure out quantities....
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Create a floor finishes schedule
If you have placed Zones in your Building using specific cover fills, you can create a simple Floor Finishes Schedule by using the following settings. First create a new Schedule, Document>Schedules...
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Open and Repair
Do you have a corrupt file? The new Open & Repair function is available in the Open dialogue. This function can fix v17 damaged pln files in certain cases. ArchiCAD 17 introduces a new feature that...
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Add custom colors to the color pallete
If you are editing a surface color or a pen, you may want to have a range of custom colors in the palette. You must select the custom pen box and then edit it, finally click ‘add to custom colors’
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Add attributes for Plant objects
If you search a plan object from Cadimage in BIMComponents you may need to add the attributes for the plants to your project to display the surfaces correctly. To enable the attributes in your...
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