Archicad Training Series Vol.4

ArchiCAD Training Series Vol. 4

Advanced ArchiCAD

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ArchiCAD Training Series Vol. 4 Advanced ArchiCAD (International English Metric Version) Copyright © 2013 by GRAPHISOFT, all rights reserved. Reproduction, paraphrasing or translation without express prior written permission is strictly prohibited.

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Credits Courtesy of GRAPHISOFT

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Contents

CONTENTS Introduction ___________________________________________ 6 Chapter 1 - Project Setup ________________________________ 8 The Example Project ________________________________________ 9 Creating a Template________________________________________ 10 Project Info _______________________________________________ 11 Attribute Management (Composites, Building Materials, Surfaces, Fills, Custom Profiles) ______________________________________ 13 External Content __________________________________________ 18 View Sets _________________________________________________ 20 Layer Combinations________________________________________ 24 Model View Options _______________________________________ 26 Layout Book Structure _____________________________________ 29 Publisher Sets_____________________________________________ 36 Dimension Preferences _____________________________________ 37

Chapter 2 – Basic Modeling _____________________________39 Setting Up Stories _________________________________________ 39 Creating the Grid __________________________________________ 42 Vertical Structures - Walls and Curtain Walls___________________ 51 Horizontal Structures - Slabs ________________________________ 78

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Multiplying Elements Across Stories - Beams __________________ 85 Creating the Other Tower ___________________________________ 93 Sections and Elevations ____________________________________ 98

Chapter 3 - Hotlinked Modules _________________________103 Creating a Hotlinked Module _______________________________ 103 Staircase ________________________________________________ 123 Partition Walls ___________________________________________ 126 Doors ___________________________________________________ 133 Nested Modules - Fixtures _________________________________ 136 Hotlink Management - Ground Floor and Roof________________ 143

Chapter 4 - Advanced Modeling _________________________158 Shell ____________________________________________________ 158 Modifying Curtain Walls ___________________________________ 165 Profiled Elements_________________________________________ 167 Importing Standard Profiles _______________________________ 180 Morph __________________________________________________ 182

Chapter 5 – Documentation ____________________________189 Zones ___________________________________________________ 189 Dimensions ______________________________________________ 196 Labels___________________________________________________ 202 Interactive Schedules _____________________________________ 209

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Chapter 6 - Visualization _______________________________224 Adding Environment ______________________________________ 224 Cameras_________________________________________________ 226 Rendering Settings _______________________________________ 232 Create Fly-Through _______________________________________ 234

Chapter 7 - The Layout Book and Publishing ______________238 Creating View Sets ________________________________________ 238 The Layout Book - Separating the Model and Documentation___ 246 Publishing from the Model_________________________________ 246 Separating the Model and Documentation ___________________ 251 Place External Drawings ___________________________________ 258 Publishing from the Documentation File _____________________ 263

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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. 4, ‘Advanced ArchiCAD’ a comprehensive hands-on training to familiarize you with the advanced modeling and documentation tools of ArchiCAD. This guide is meant for advanced ArchiCAD users and students. We strongly recommend that you complete Training Series Vol. 1-3 before starting with this one. This guide is also suitable for using as BIM Curriculum ‘Exercises’ - for Hands-on Practice in universities where ArchiCAD is taught to students. Lecturers who would like to use this guide as a BIM Curriculum should visit the educational sites of the GRAPHISOFT website (www.graphisoft.com/learning/education) where, after registration, they will be entitled to obtain a full set of training materials suitable for seminar lectures. Contents of this guide: Training guide e-book: The PDF guide includes detailed explanation of every step, with several screenshots. 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.

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Introduction You must have ArchiCAD 18 or later version installed on your computer to use this guide. This ebook 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. 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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Chapter 1 - Project Setup

Chapter 1 - Project Setup The purpose of this training guide is to simulate an office environment. To be able to work efficiently as an office, certain standards have to be defined first in a template file that all members of the team can use in order to avoid inconsistency of the model, documentation and so on. In general, many template types can be defined for different purposes (one common template for every project, specialized templates for different project types, etc.), in this training we will create one for similar types of projects like the to-be built building. Naturally in real life the template does not have to be always created before starting a new project, unless there are some project specific modifications. At this point if you want to skip to modeling right away, continue with Chapter 2 and use the presaved template file from the extracted training project folder.

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Chapter 1 - Project Setup

The Example Project Open the Office building_complete.pla file from the training project folder and choose Read elements directly from archive when prompted. The project is a multi-story office building, use the Navigator to browse the different stories, sections, elevations and the 3D view. In the following, we are going to remodel this building at its construction documentation phase, complete it with 2D documentation, visualizations and make it ready for sharing it with our collaborators. For now, let’s close this project and start a brand new clean sheet to create our template file first. Select File/Close Project (do not save) and choose File/New/New... from the menu, so that a clean ArchiCAD would start. In the upcoming dialog box use the default ArchiCAD 18 Template and choose the Standard Profile 18 Work Environment. Click New to proceed.

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Chapter 1 - Project Setup

Creating a Template Setting up a proper template file for the office is the responsibility of the BIM Manager in close collaboration with the Project Architect and the Model Manager, who is responsible for the document output and usually is a highly experienced ArchiCAD user. Our template will include only some of the default settings that can be stored in a template, such as: •

generic project info - like standard company data that we always need to add to our layouts

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attributes - composites, building materials, surfaces, fills, custom profiles that the office usually uses with a uniformized look and settings

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external content - such as a library of additional project specific objects or textures for rendering

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view sets - to define how to filter the model view for different project phases and different disciplines (architectural, structural, MEP, etc.)

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layer combinations - the groups of visible layers for the views above - a necessity for creating proper view sets

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model view options - to set how simple or detailed the display of the visible elements is regarding different purposes

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layout book and master layouts - the generally used paper sizes for publishing and a preset structure to organize the drawings

Besides these, templates can also store pen sets (pen thickness and color), lines, linetypes, predefined publisher sets, project preferences, DXF/DWG translation settings, favorites, default tool settings and so on. By using a template we can highly ease our work, since we will not have to set these every time, but choose a predefined setting from the template when reaching a specific phase in our projects. Note: Making a real template needs lots of experience and takes weeks of work to get completed, therefore it can not be fully covered within this training guide, but hopefully the highlighted points below will give some food for thought for your next real project.

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Chapter 1 - Project Setup

Project Info Project Info is useful as it can be easily retrieved, mainly as autotexts on layouts, which means that text does not have to be typed manually all the time, but will be automatically filled out with the information we provided once. Let's set some basic information that will have to be displayed several times later. Open the Project Info dialog, by choosing File/Info/Project Info....

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Chapter 1 - Project Setup Fill some of the fields: •

Project Name: Training Series 04

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Project Status: Construction Documentation

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Building Name: Office Building

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Contact Company: GRAPHISOFT

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Contact Full Address: Graphisoft Park 1, Budapest, 1031, Hungary

Click OK to close the dialog.

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Chapter 1 - Project Setup

Attribute Management (Composites, Building Materials, Surfaces, Fills, Custom Profiles) Setting up the proper element attributes is a tidious work which includes creating new attributes and incorporating previously used ones into our new template as well. Managing the attributes is not an easy task, in this training we will only collect some attributes from other projects instead of creating new ones. The easiest way to do this is to load the attributes of a project file in the Attribute Manager and append the ones we need to our currently opened template file. Open Options/Element Attributes/Attribute Manager.... The attributes of the current file are listed by categories on the left side of the dialog. Click Open... on the right to open the attribute set of another project file.

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Chapter 1 - Project Setup Browse Existing project.pln from the extracted training project folder and click Open. There are three ways to add an attribute: •

append: simply add the attribute to the end of the list

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by index: overwrite the current attributes with the new ones that have the same index numbers

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by name: overwrite the current attributes that have the same names as the new ones

Go to the Building Materials tab page. Sort the entries by clicking on the Name header on the right. The needed materials are marked with an @ symbol. Here we can also decide if we want to create the cut fills and surfaces that are associated with the building materials. In this case we can transfer the fills and surfaces as well at the same time, so check Cut Fills and Surfaces options. Select the marked items on the right and click