Archive for the ‘Electrical’ Category

Remove Labels from Electrical Symbols

16 January 2013 3 Comments Andrew Watson
ArchiCAD, Electrical, Tip of the Day

When you first install the Cadimage Electrical tool, wall plate and component symbols that you place in the project will display a label. For wall plates, the label shows the product code and a code for the fixing height. For components, only the fixing height is displayed. The label forms an integral part of the

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How to offset components of a wall plate

7 January 2013 1 Comment Jonathan Breen
ArchiCAD, ArchiCAD 16, Electrical, Tip of the Day

Sometimes there may not be enough room along a wall to fit all of the components: So instead of stacking them side by side you can offset them from a  wall as well Simple select the components you want to offset and go to position settings Set the distance you want to offset and you

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Ceiling Fan

13 December 2012 No Comments Andrew Watson
ArchiCAD, Electrical, Tip of the Day

Need a ceiling fan for your electrical layouts? A quick search of the online objects will reveal that a number of free ceiling fan objects are currently available. Double-click on the Object tool in the ArchiCAD toolbox. In the Search field type ceiling fan, and choose On BIM Components Portal. Choose one of the fans,

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Place a Wall Plate on a Cabinet

12 December 2012 No Comments Andrew Watson
ArchiCAD, Electrical, Tip of the Day

If you place a Cadimage Electrical wall plate near a wall, it will snap to the wall. Usually this is extremely helpful, but in some cases you may not want this to happen. For example, you might want to place the wall place on a cabinet. Aargh! The silly wall plate insists on sticking to

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The Electrical schedules have been updated and improved

10 December 2012 No Comments Jonathan Breen
ArchiCAD, ArchiCAD 16, Electrical, Tip of the Day

We noticed that the interactive schedule criteria for the Electrical schedules & legends wasnt being remembered fully when exported The reason for this was part of the criteria included mention of the Electrical tool which isnt a standard tool So we have updated it now use only standard ArchiCAD terms to display all items associated

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Components or Plates?

23 November 2012 No Comments Andrew Watson
ArchiCAD, Electrical, Tip of the Day

When you are working with the Electrical tool, you get the choice of viewing component symbols or the wall plate symbols. This choice is made in the Model View Options settings dialog, so you can view components in one view and wall plates in another. Choose Plate Projection to show the location and size of

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Cadimage Electrical–Object Gallery

22 November 2012 9 Comments Joshua Osborne
Electrical

Included in the new Cadimage Electrical are a whole lot of Symbols and Wall plates for you to use – Symbols are available in International and US/Canada formats, and Wall Plates have a range for NZ/Australia, US/Canada, and the EU (Wall Plates are all separate objects, whereas the symbols are the same objects with an

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