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
GRAPHISOFT have today announced ArchiCAD 17 which has gone a different direction to previous version and is working on improving the model you have rather than adding more design tools. The new slogan is “Bim is in the details” You can read more about it here on our new look website
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 find that you are coming across a lot of issues, or things in ArchiCAD where you are not sure of the best way to go, You can always contact our support team. If however you feel that the electronic communication is losing something in translation, you can always book some time for one
Apart from logical and syntax errors in the script, bugs can also arise from unexpected values. Such values can cause otherwise good scripts to turn bad. All GDL objects rely on the end-user entering ‘sensible’ data, as defined by the programmer. For instance, if I create a library part to model a simple, rectangular bookshelf
Surveyors often produce various file format for the terrain that they have surveyed. One common format is .XYZ Luckily the Cadimage Sites + Massing tool has created a function where you can import an XYZ file directly to a mesh. One thing to note is that often the surveyors will export the file in Unicode
Sometimes you will want to leave an open space besides, above or under a window. It may be to let another structural element to be seen or just to leave the shim space more accurately. Either way, the Cadimage Window tool allows you to do it: Original window: Steps: Settings>Parameters> Shim space> Shim
When creating a new file in ArchiCAD using File > New you have a couple of different options. Use a Template > and select your company template. This option means a new clean file will be created with your company standards. The other option Use Latest Project Settings > This option creates a new file with the project settings that
Outlined below is a nice simple way to setup an automatic sheet index based on your subsets of drawings First go to your Project Map and open the tab for Project Indexes and double click on the Sheet Index Once in the Index, click on the Index Settings button in the top right hand
To turn True Line Weight on or off whilst working, just use your Right-Click mouse button and select it to toggle on / off. (Just ensure you have nothing selected before you Right-Click).