Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

Cadimage Work Environment

22 May 2013 No Comments Tate Gibbes
ArchiCAD, Cadimage, Tip of the Day, Tools

Once you have run the Cadimage Tools Installer you should now fin that there is Cadimage Menu option in the menu bar. If this is not the case, then you simply need to activate the correct Work Environment Settings.  To do this go to: Options>Work Environment>Work Environment… In the Dialog box that pops up select

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Labelling Doors and Windows in Elevations

20 May 2013 2 Comments Tate Gibbes
ArchiCAD, Doors+Windows, Tip of the Day

Before you can apply labels to the windows you need to set the label tool up for doors and windows. With nothing selected open the label tools settings. Under the Content & Preview Tab, choose the Window Tool option from the list. Change the label type from Text to Cadimage ID Label Configure the label

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Extrusions Dynamic Editing

7 May 2013 2 Comments Mark Horrocks
Extrusions, Tip of the Day

As you probably know, the Cadimage Extrusion tool allows you to extrude a profile along a path. But did you know that once you’ve done that, you can also Dynamically Edit the path? To do this (edit dynamically that is), you need to use one of the Extrusion’s Edit Modes, which you get to from

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Importing a surveyors XYZ file using Site + Massing tool

30 April 2013 1 Comment Jonathan Breen
ArchiCAD, Sites+Massing, Tip of the Day

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

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Open a gap above a window.

29 April 2013 No Comments Soto
ArchiCAD, Cadimage, Doors+Windows, Tip of the Day

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

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Close Excel when importing Keynotes

22 April 2013 No Comments Jonathan Breen
ArchiCAD, ArchiCAD 16, Keynotes, Tip of the Day

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

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Profiles from ArchiCAD to Cadimage

11 April 2013 No Comments Glen Richardson
Detail Elements, Extrusions, Tip of the Day

To use an ArchiCAD profile in one of your Cadimage objects, lets say a steel section in Detail Elements or Extrusions. Select Presets > Copy ArchiCAD Profile from the Cadimage menu. Select the Profile you want to copy from the dropdown list, and click Create Preset. You then need to set what the profile will

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20% Off all Cadimage Tools and Objects

10 April 2013 1 Comment Joshua Osborne
News, Tools

To celebrate the onset of Autumn – may I present to you: The Cadimage 20% Off Sale. The title says it all really, but here’s the deal – for the month of April, all Cadimage Tools (and Cadimage Tools Upgrades), Cadimage Objects & Object Packs, Cadimage Artlantis Objects and Object Packs, All LearnVirtual Training courses,

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Aligning Cadimage roof coverings

9 April 2013 No Comments Soto
ArchiCAD, Coverings, Tip of the Day

Depending of the roof design, sometimes is necessary to align the cladding lines: Just select the node in the middle of the covering and drag it to align.    


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Edges on Radial Winders

15 March 2013 No Comments Glen Richardson
Stairs, Tip of the Day

If you have a Cadimage Polystair with radial winders, you can adjust the number of edges to apply to each side of the winders. With 5 Edges: With 1 Edge:


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