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All you need to build
ArchiCAD is manly focused on buildings and houses. However, this is a basic
tutorial: you will need practice and experience to start making professional
projects and get to know everything this software offers for 3D projects.
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Let's start with the
3D Project, lots listed in the
The first way is to use the
South, East and West. Each one is indicated through a blue segment, named
and oriented through an
see your project from its the point of view indicated by its own arrow,
so the others.
In each Elevation view, different height levels are indicated. These are
called
Remember that the current view selected is indicated by a
the
You can also create new points of view by
You can edit Elevations as normal objects, changing their point of view by
rotating
sufficiently long to cover all your project, or it will show up incomplete.
You can rename it by right-clicking on it in the Navigator Palette. And you can
create
The second way is to use the
up to down
see them very well in any of the Elevation views.
Stories
may be linked to them.
height of its objects linked, that you can check by hovering objects for some
time, so be careful.
You can
To create new ones instead, just right-click on
Then fix name and height at which it appears in the Elevation views.
The third way is the 3D visualization, which is a
it going on
zoom
the
check your project in full 3D.
You can also use the
as it could be in reality. Check the instructions in the first window
to learn how to use it.
You can also use
3D
Let's see how to build a simple 3D project. You can use any of the views seen:
an Elevation view, a Story one or a 3D one. Experience will tell you which is
the best one to use case by case.
Two tools lets you build a
The
from standard 2D tools:
Document section
3D previews we have seen
the Morph Tool do appear any case. This works just as seen inside a 2D Project,
creating paths or enclosed polygons and curves. The only difference is that
you don't have just the X and Y axes, but also the
You can draw along their directions if these are highlighted in
are drawing on a Story, this will show up in
ArchiCAD does help you showing the current
horizontal, you will draw fixing the height, if the grid is vertical, you are drawing
changing the height too. This is enforced with the
All the rest is identical: the axis directions, the starting point, the dialog box with
distance and angle information, the red points to show off Guide Lines, and so on.
Undo
use your keyboard to set precise values. In this case, the
not be zero.
So you can draw
paths and polygons, in 3D called
Also in 3D views it's important the shape your pointer shows.
vertices, a
if you are fixing a point on a
a cross inside.
Let's see how to edit a Morph object, to create any personalized 3D object. As
always, you need to select it first, and then click on a node, a path or a
If you click on a node, you can find again Move Node, Drag, Fillet/Chamfer,
Offset All Edges, Mirror and Rotate, equal to the 2D ones seen,
icons are different
One is called
original surface you have. This can be used to add an initial extrusion. Just
make sure to finish by clicking when the pencil is
Box Stretch
The
to make 3D projects: prefer Tube instead.
If you click on a path, you find other tools met in 2D projects, plus others already seen.
If you click on a
and
When you want to edit a
tools seen work in the same way. You will just find two new transformations, which
are the
you can fillet or chamfer such in 3D.
The transformations that come from the faces are identical to the ones seen for
a surface.
Mind that
are in a 2D view mode, like Elevations or Story views, you will see and use
classic transformations seen for 2D projects,
Don't forget that you can delete 3D objects by right-clicking on them and going
to
Also in 3D projects you can use the advanced tools in the
some small differences. For example, when using the
define a simple line, but you must define a
fix two points for the direction, and a third one for the inclination. Then decide
which side to select.
Another important tool is the
fast, although with less control than with the Morph Tool.
ArchiCAD indeed helps you with lots and lots of templates, focused more on buildings
and houses. You can use
and so with
except walls, are
Dialog
Moreover, these templates can be placed on determined objects. For example,
you can place doors and windows just on walls. Always check your pointer:
it's a rhombus it means that you can apply these templates, if it is a cross or a cloud
you can't.
And each template can have its own transform tools, that you can discover and
learn with time. Practice!
Keep in mind that any 3D ready-made template can be transformed into a
Morph object, so that you can edit and personalize it fully. Just right-click
on the template placed and go to
object, once it is turned to Morph, may have
so transform when you are ready. You can personalize it then, if you can't,
remember to disable groups with
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