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with
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ArchiCAD
and
Toolbox
may need practice and experience if you want to create a very good professional
design.
If you want to download this simple house design to take as example, download it
from the
For example, if you want to trace a
drag on your project as you do with the
completely flat
projects always from a
projects, but may be not for 3D objects with extrusion.
There are three main
Floor views
The
Floor view
each of their point of view, in the same
To open an
By default you have just four Elevations:
can also create new points of view by creating other Elevations. To do this,
simply select an Elevation and use
elsewhere. Then, using the
to create the right point of view.
The
also the
short, you may not be able to see the whole object in such view
it as long as needed.
The Elevation view shows different fixed height levels, called
These are blue annotations that fix the height of each
Ground Floor, the First Floor and so on.
The
Below
view of each Elevation segment. Double-click on a view to
to
Stories do not fix the elevation level only, but also the height where an object
base must lay.
changes, the object follows.
If you want to
Create New Story...
later, simply right-click on a story and then go to
The third view is the
then to
the
Orbit command
For a more realistic 3D view, use the
instructions in the following
Let's see how to create a
most. There are three main different tools to draw a 3D project. The
Architecture Tools
The first group of tools collects all house and building templates ready to use,
all listed in the
personalized through the
To draw
object base is placed on the
blue grid
The
height from wall base through the
to open or close the door.
The
and drag as you do with a rectangle. With the
ready to be used.
There are also other two advanced tools: the
The
called
never appear in the 3D view, the
and can be drawn and seen in a 3D environment.
While drawing in a 3D environment you have three main directions: the
axes
view, just the X and the Y axes are available.
directions if the axes are highlighted in
Also in this case ArchiCAD helps you with some
projects like the
additional keypoint,
point taken on a
Guides
However, in a 3D environment, the
If you click on a node or
the node, offset and fillet/chamfer as seen in 2D,
Plus, there is also the
section
point fixed, when the pointer becomes a
stretch a 3D object by moving its
other planes and surfaces.
If you click on a
add extrusion to a face or a surface. Plus, use
3D fillet and chamfer.
All these editing tools can be applied on a 3D view only.
like
from the
To
Also, in the
projects. For example, the
a
If you have a ready-made template you want to
right-clicking on it and going to
If you want to create a completely personalized 3D object from scratch instead,
you need to use the
starting from a simple
and
on nodes and paths, you can shape your object as you like.
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