We have all had situations where we need to calculate Cut and Fill volumes for sloping sites. Here is a simple technique for doing this is to use Solid Element Operations. First of all,once you have created your mesh, create a copy of it off to the side. Use your slabs and footings to create
If you are wanting to brush up your elevations for presenting to your clients there are a few simple tricks you can use to contextualise your drawings: In the above image, I have set the elevation to show Uncut Surafces with Own Material Colours (Shaded) and set to show Sun Shadows To create the sky
If you believe you have found a bug in ArchiCAD that would be difficult for our team to reproduce it may need reported to Graphisoft. One of the most useful things a customer can provide is a ‘support package’ of the file which will contain a lot of information about the project without storing the
If you have walls with different angles, sometimes you will want to see the grids in your Elevation/Section. If the grids are not perpendicular to the Elevation line, the grids won’t show at first instance. Now, you can go to the Elevation/Section settings > Grid Tool and select ‘Show non perpendicular Grid Elements’.
If you create your Keynotes database in Excel, whenever you have made your changes be sure to close Excel first before importing the database into ArchiCAD Keynotes maintains some of the access rights & control over the file while it is still open so Keynotes will not be able to read it correctly, you may
By default when your export a layout with XREFs on it those are exported seperately (since they were imported seperately) However when working in collaboration with another firm this can be detrimental as you will want each export to be complete without any external files The easiest way to do this is to choose a
There is a handy setting in ArchiCADs’ Model View Options which reveals any fills that may be set to Transparent or Window Background This can be useful if you want to see everything placed on the project but quite often people use fills to hide certain elements You can either turn this setting on or
A lot of people will get the library loading report when they open a project & constantly find themselves having to hit the little close button to get rid of it So why are you getting it? Basically there are 2 main types of problems that occur when you get a library loading report: Some
You may want to manually go through your list of composites, fills & their associated U-values for reference These are all displayed with ease in the Energy Model Review palette However if you want to export this you just have to go to ‘Start Energy Evaluation’ It will produce your Energy Evaluation report (This may
Due to major issues with the first build of Hotfix #3 ArchiCAD removed it We have worked closely with them in identifying the issues with this hotfix & this appears to be fully resolved The hotfix was release on 05/03/2013 so has been out for 2 weeks today & no major issues reported Have a