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When you open
open a new blank project, or open an existing one. To start from scratch,
click on
Let's see the
tools of ArchiCAD; on the left you have the main
important tools to draw and build your project.
On the centre there is the main workspace, where you will create and draw.
On top, below the Standard bar, there is the
related to the current tool selected from the Toolbox. On the right you have the
Navigator Palette
At the very bottom you have the
project better.
These windows can be moved and closed. Double-click on them to put them on
their original position. To open them again instead, go to
Toolbars
Let's see how to move inside your project. Use your mouse wheel to
and out.
You can also use the buttons at the bottom. Useful is the
once and drag to move, and click again to finish with the tool.
Let's see how to draw
are useful inside 3D Projects.
All 2D tools are inside
text
You can draw 2D objects through the
Polyline tool
draw curved objects, while Polyline draws more complex figures, curved or not.
Whatever is the tool chosen, ArchiCAD helps you at drawing them properly.
The drawing always starts from a
can fix it by clicking on your workspace. To start drawing, you always need
to fix a
creating. A small
you are using.
In Line and Polyline tools the
point, and the
close to zero degrees. This indicates the West and East directions on your
workspace, while the
In Arc/Circle the
The Angle, the Arc length and so on follow.
You can also fix any direction
With the
If you go on creating lines, you can finish drawing clicking on a node, when
your pointer becomes a
Arc/Circle Tool, you also need to define the correct arc length. In the Polyline
Tool, you can go on drawing segments by clicking on and on.
an opened path, by clicking on the last fixed point
if you want to close the path, you can click on the starting point,
where your pointer becomes a
If you mistake while drawing, just
actions done in the past, just
If you want to put some
Before typing, you must set a
Just click once, create the text area, and click again to define it. Then you can type
inside, setting size, font and other settings above.
the selected text only.
of the text area is respected.
below.
When you are done, just click outside. You can edit text again by double-clicking
inside it using the
The number of shapes you can draw can vary. When you click on a tool, different
options appear on top, in the
the middle, the kind of
and the kind of
on the button next to
Let's see how to manage existing objects. In ArchiCAD, nodes and vertices are
indicated through
medians
a node or a path, the current drawing in progress will snap to it.
Plus, if you hover on a segment or a side, a
you fix a direction, where such side lays. These are fixed through
on your workspace. In this way you can draw following such direction or starting from
any of its points or intercept points. These are indicated through a
These lines are called
workspace and go to
You can also have
a complete circumference. If you click on the red circle, you can use all the dashed
circumference to fix your points.
You can enable and disable Guide Lines
Of course
In case you need to be precise, you can use your keyboard. Fix a point, until the
dialog box
values inside. Type a number: you will define the value of the first row. Then you
can use your
Also the
of the point you are fixing. Z is zero for any 2D object, X is the distance from
the extreme left of the workspace, while Y is the distance from the middle.
Once you set all,
The numbers you put don't have measurement units because they are fixed by
the options on ArchiCAD, that you can find in
Working Units
you are using in such dialog box.
What about
simply
works whatever is the tool active in the toolbox.
Objects selected will be highlighted in
on an object again to deselect it. To select more objects, simply
down
you click again, all objects inside such will be selected.
You can also use the
You can
use
Just when the object is selected, you can go and edit it. Click on a point to show
the dialog box, with some important transformations available. The default
tool active is the
your object selected. If you choose
a point defined first. Remember, each step is made when you click. Define the
centre first, then a direction, and then the angle of rotation.
Mirror
made of copies of the object.
If a group of objects is selected, these transformations will affect
all of them.
These tools may change according to the kind of object you are working on and
on the point you clicked on.
but you can have others.
If you click on a path, you can insert a
without or with a tangent. If you have to do with a polyline, you can
edge, keeping it parallel, or offset all edges.
If you click on a node in arcs or polylines, you can drag it through
If you click on a polyline node, you can
You can also have
the arc length, the second one for its radius.
Use
How to
or
different formats. To save your project in order to edit it later, save it as a
ArchiCAD template
Page
The
will be exported. If you don't use this tool, all your project is exported by default.
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