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Export your schedules as Excel worksheets
If you have taken up last weeks tip on creating more schedules to help your Quantity Surveyor you may be looking at the best way to get these schedules to them. One method you may not be aware of is...
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Importance of Element ID
As you start to get into more detailed schedules you will notice the importance of Element ID’s. This is the main defining difference between any two elements. At the concept stage of design, the...
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Customer Experience Improvement Program
We make sure to tell our users that in order for us to improve the quality of our tools, we need feedback on how you use them. The good folks at Graphisoft need the same form of feedback in order to...
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Slab display in plan view.
If you want do to display your slab in different levels with or without fills and avoid the model view options, you can edit the display to be a Custom. This may be helpful if you have a foundation...
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Company template – time invested in Favorites is time saved
In seeing a lot of company templates its great to see our customers think of innovative ways to make their task easier. Favorites have become commonplace due to the ease of placing a commonly used...
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Picture object 17
Whether you loaded the Picture (frame) 17 object from your ArchiCAD Library 17 or you have it embedded from BIM Components, if you want to edit the image displayed for a custom picture, you need to...
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Scroll along the Info Bar
The Info Bar along the top of the screen gives you a quick preview of the settings for the tool you are using. This saves you from having to open the settings by being able to access them on the fly....
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Opening a file with custom objects?
Opening an old file or a file with custom objects? If you are handed a file from an old version of ArchiCAD or a file with custom objects, you may have missing objects when opening a .pln (project...
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Use Composites for Floors & Roofs as well as Walls
When designing houses we commonly use composites that come with the installed template, like EXT: Stud 90 Pb (meaning Exterior 90mm timber stud with Plasterboard on interior). However when it comes to...
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See the Object outline before placing it
Do you ever get annoyed when you place an Object only to find it clashes with something else? If so, what you need to do is show the ‘Ghost Bounding Box’. This shows the outline of the Object (or...
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Have you forgotten a keyboard shortcut?
Have you forgotten a keyboard shortcut? Or would you like to learn a few more to work more efficiently? To find out what keyboard shortcuts ArchiCAD is using, go to Options> Work Environment>...
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Launch another ArchiCAD session
If you have one or more copies of ArchiCAD open and would like to open another project for reference or to copy-paste data – simply use Launch a new instance of ArchiCAD from the File> Open dialog…...
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Object of the Week
This week’s featured object is Curtain #1580, which models a curtain track with fabric drapes. Description The track follows either a straight, L-shaped or U-shaped path. For the L and U shapes, the...
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Presentation Pens
In the NZ Template we have left several pen slots free for you to customize The best use we have seen of these is ‘Presentation Pens’ – pale light colours similar to Pantone Tria Markers commonly used...
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Changing Coordinate Input method
ArchiCAD automatically adjusts between Polar (Distance / Angle) and Cartesian (X / Y) Coordinate input method depending the geometry method being used. Typically linear elements will use the Polar...
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Direction Dependent Selection method
Do you know about the Direction Dependent Selection method? This comes in to effect when you draw a selection window. It has been in ArchiCAD for a number of versions now, but is hidden within the...
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This is less of a Tip and more of a Reminder of the Day to remind you to make sure that you are Backing Up Your Projects. If you aren’t the person in your office that would back things up, make sure...
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Object of the Week
Engineers Bolt #1396 is one of a number of objects created for 3D detailing. Description The bolt includes optional washers and nut. Set the dimensions of the head, shaft, and even the thread length...
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Stretchy Joist – how you can get an ‘X’ in cross section of Timber members
There is a Complex Profile available with the Beam tool called ‘Joist Stretchy’ : It is built from 2 different Building Materials – this is so they don’t join & the X remains in the middle: It can...
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