ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide电子书

ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide

Table of Contents

ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Project Setup and Modeling a Residential Project

The ArchiCAD GUI

Panning and Zooming

View toggling

Project setup

Project Settings

Stories

Units

Renovation filters

Selection methods

Single cursor click

Window

Marquee

The Find & Select tool

Modification commands

Modeling – part I

Setting the Renovation Filter

Using the Wall tool

Creating the exterior walls of the first story

Creating the first story's floor with the Slab tool

Creating the exterior walls and floor slabs for the basement and the second story

Basement element modification

Adding the garage

Modeling – part II

Second floor walls

Modification II – pet palette

Ceilings

Creating a composite type

First floor ceilings

Second floor ceilings

Roofs

Trimming walls with roofs

Cutting the roof

Layers

Managing layers with the Quick Layers palette

Site

Zones (rooms)

Lists

Zone categories

Closets are zones too

Doors

Windows

Stairs

Create your first stair

Create your second stair

Slab modification

Stair Modification

Summary

2. Objects, Drafting, and Annotation – A Residential Project

Objects

Bathroom

The casework layer

Vanity

Mirror

Toilet

Tub

Bedrooms

Beds

Furniture

Kitchen

The kitchen casework – base cabinets

The kitchen casework – wall cabinets

Dining room

Living room

Laundry room

Basement

Mesh 2

The Beam & Column tool

Garage

Annotation

The Text tool

Edit existing text blocks

The Label tool

The Dimension tool

Creating your first dimension

Editing existing dimensions

Summary

3. Documentation – A Residential Project

The project workflow

View Map

The View Map palette

Project views

Layer combinations

The ceiling plan views

Cloning a folder

Layer preparation for reflected ceiling plans

Lighting

Light fixture schedule

Creating a schedule view

Elevation views

Elevation markers

Enlarged plans

The Detail tool

Enlarged plan views

Layer preparation for enlarged plans

Kitchen

Laundry room

Bathroom

Sections

Layer preparation for sections

Interior elevations

Kitchen

Adding kitchen annotations

Laundry room

Adding elevation annotations

Bathroom

Bathroom annotations

Layout Book

Master Layout

Drawings (views onto layouts)

New layouts (sheets)

Floor plan sheets

Creating sheets for sections

Creating a sheet for details

Creating a sheet for interior elevations

Schedules sheet

Printing

Setting up to print or plot

Page setup

Plotting a layout

Printing a layout (to fit)

Printing multiple drawings

Exporting files

Exporting multiple files

Summary

4. Project Setup and Modeling Part 1 – A Healthcare Building Project

Project setup

Project settings

Stories

Units

Hotlinks

When to split your project model and when not to

Importing and exporting attribute settings

Xrefs

Attaching Xrefs

Xref layers

Layer combinations

More about the ArchiCAD GUI

The Quick Options palette

The Attributes toolbar

Exterior walls

Elevation marks

The Wall tool

The Curtain Wall tool

Curtain wall #1

Curtain Wall #2

Floors

Roofs

The Mesh tool

The Shell tool

Shell type #1

Shell type #2

Columns and Grids

Using profiles

Composites

The Grid tool

Using the Grid System tool

Adjusting the column grid

Creating additional grid lines

Summary

5. Project Setup and Modeling Part 2 – A Healthcare Building Project

Project configuration and file linking

Saving the project

Creating stories

Units

Hotlinking

Layer preparation for hotlinks

Hotlink the core and shell model

Moving the elevation marks

Attaching Xrefs

Hotlinking the interior model

Modeling tools

Creating new composites

Adjusting layer combinations

Modeling the interior walls

Creating objects

Creating windows

Views

Creating layers

Renaming layers

Creating and modifying layer combinations

Enlarged floor plans (1/4"=1'-0")

Reflected ceiling plans (1/8"=1'-0")

Enlarged ceiling plans (1/8"=1'-0")

Sections & Elevations

Plan details

Deleting layer combinations

Maintaining layer combinations

Compiled layer matrix

Cloning folders

Deleting clone folders

Creating new view map folders

Summary

6. Objects, Drafting, and Annotation – A Healthcare Building Project

Creating zones

Updating zones

Adding casework and plumbing fixtures

Creating a new surface material

Creating a reception desk

Drawing the desktop outline

Creating the desk top

Creating the desktop support walls

Viewing your desk in 3D

Creating a new object

Using your new object

Adding hotspots to an object

Looking at the code inside an object

Hiding the unused parameter

Changing the display of the parameter list

Understanding attributes

Layer Settings

Line Types

Fill Types

Building Materials

Composites

Pens & Colors

Surfaces

Zone Categories

Mark-Up Styles

Profile Manager

Renovation Override Styles

Operation Profiles

Managing attributes

Drafting tools

Modifying fills

Editing text

Editing dimensions

Summary

7. Documentation – A Commercial Project

View setup

Identification

General – automate all!

Pen Set

Model View Options

2D/3D Documents

3D Only

The organizer – how to access it and why it is important

Relationship between parts of the organizer

Documentation workflow

Layout Book (sheets)

Layout Book settings

Master Layout

Autotext

Creating a Master Layout

Layouts

Creating a layout

Adding views to layouts

Placing drawings on layouts

Changes and adjustments

Setting up multiple layouts

Printing

Summary

8. Work Sharing with ArchiCAD

Publisher

Publishing properties

Exporting to CAD and other file formats

Where you save from matters

Project map and view map

Layout Book

Publisher

Saving files from the project map and view map

Saving files from the Layout Book

Publishing files from the Publisher

List of file formats

Exporting 3D content

3D file formats

Saving model elements as a library part

Specific file formats

DWG

Translators

PDF files

Save or print?

BIMx Hyper-model

IFC files

Other file formats

Collaboration

Referencing DWG files

Using worksheets

Collaboration with IFC files

IFC management

Teamwork

BIM Server

Users

Teamwork projects

Teamwork libraries

Working in the Teamwork environment

Division of work

Using module files

Using Hotlink Manager

Efficiency with module files

Collaboration between offices

Summary

9. Visualization and Model Management

Visualization concepts

The purpose of rendering

Rendering programs

The basics of photography

Shutter speed

Aperture size or f-stop

Depth of field

ISO or exposure value

Active virtual environment

3D Document

Active 3D models

Rendering

Content

Material assignment - attributes

Using fills

Drafting Fills

Cover Fills

Cut Fills

Creating new fill types

Exterior improvements

ArchiCAD Library elements for rendering

Light

Camera

Rendering parameters

Sketch rendering

Rendering with CineRender

HDR rendering

White model rendering

Fly-Through animation

Model management and troubleshooting

Using project templates and attribute files

Controlling visibility

Summary

Index