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 Visit the Certification site here, It is a simple multiple choice question that will give a percentage rating at the end.
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 operating systems like Windows XP are no longer officially supported as ArchiCAD continues to keep up with modern
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 follows Experience BIM (Building Information Modelling) Using the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Massaro House, this provides a conceptual overview
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 select the object ( In this case a wall) and got to Design>Align 3D Texture>Set Origin…
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 object in the chosen direction. The distance the object/s move is set in the Girds & Backgrounds dialog box
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 zone with the correct color. We can not leave this Zone as it is, as this will
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 the contour line and get 1 continuous spline or polyline. Fortunately the good folks at Graphisoft have understood this frustration and given
When you are using ArchiCAD to create renders for things like sun studies, it is important to ensure that you set the correct location for your project. To do this go to View>3D View Options>3D Projection Settings… In the dialog box click on the More Sun button This will open the Sun Settings dialog box, Click on
Anchor Point When placing your objects, Set your anchor point to match your insertion point. I.E. A bed object anchor could be the middle of the bed head, a pot plant could be the center of the pot. Each object will have a number of options to choose from indicated by an ‘X‘ on the
Can’t find the fill you want? Are you using the correct fill category? Fills are separated into 3 fill categories: Drafting Fills Cover Fills Cut Fills If the fill you are looking for isn’t showing up in the list there is a good chance that you are looking in the wrong category. You can change