Intersection priorities help the user control interactions between certain elements. Wall and beam elements have their own intersection priority; I'm calling that the element priority. Composite skins (and components of custom profiles) have their own intersection priorities. Those are skin priorities. Neither of these should be confused with the intersection group number property of layers, though that bears on intersections
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It may happen that you would like to manually hack Archicad's recent files list. Recent projects are shown in the Start Archicad dialog box when AC launches. Recent projects and library parts are shown at File -> Recent Documents. One good reason to prune this list is that you can get apparent-duplicate items if you open a files from different
All 3D elements have a User ID, known simply as the 'ID'. It can be observed and edited in the Info Box (near the top in our setup) and in the Settings dialog under the Listing And Labeling division. The only 2D element with an ID is the Fill. I wish other 2D elements had IDs. Then I could 'name'
The Working Units and Levels preferences offer two reference levels in addition to project zero. It is common to set one of these levels to sea level. (We don't use the other one for anything at this time.) With sea level set correctly, you can build your site model mesh using sea level topo data. Level dimension texts have autotext
Perhaps this site is a little graybearded to be discussing basic tools, but so it goes. I want to talk about site modeling, which is 90% mesh management, and I thought it better to break out the basics. Though site topics tend to intrude. Because the mesh tool is unchanged (+/-) since Archicad 6.5, we can also 'wish' for 'improvements'.
Or, seen and not seen. Fills, white pens, and materials.
A reference marker is a special object that can intelligently refer to viewpoints within the project or drawings placed on layouts. They also create viewpoints, which is a strange kind of double duty. Then you can also create viewpoints without markers... it's not intuitive overall. For most cases, you can think of a viewpoint as an application window. Sections, elevations,
Isn't north up? Probably not. Since the orientation of the project is driven by the geometry of the plan, north can be any which way. In the Sun dialog The north direction for the project is set in the Sun dialog. You get there via the Sun button in the Camera settings box, or via the More Sun button in
Every viewpoint has a name and an ID. The name is important and is often used for output. The ID is never used for output, but wherever possible we use the ID to help organize the project map and view map. For viewpoints with with a marker, the name and ID appear in the Info Box and settings dialog. This
The Drawing Manager appeared in Archicad 10, taking the place of Drawing Usage in PlotMaker 9. You can open it by clicking the button at the upper left of the Navigator. It lists every drawing placed in the project, displays various settings of the drawings, and offers tools for performing drawing-related tasks such as updating, changing the linked view, breaking
In which I tilt at the windmill of Floor Plan Cut Plane, Relative Floor Plan Range, Automatic show-on-story, projection... It's not pretty. I mean, it's so pretty! You should read it! This is some of the stuff I was keeping from you when we discussed roofs in plan.
Fill display is confusing and inconsistent. Until it gets tidied up, this is all I can tell you.
(Favorites have improved in the three years since I first addressed them, so the post should improve too.) Favorites are preset configurations of the tools. They enable you to quickly configure a tool for a given purpose, like option-clicking without the need for a placed element.
The model is in there. Don't look at it, just imagine it. Think of the real buildings you can't see at the moment. The Lincoln Memorial is there. Trust me. The model is before everything in the Navigator. No model, nothing to Navigate, right? The Navigator in AC10, besides being indispensable to your productivity, is good illustration of ArchiCAD's intended
I inherited a project where an important dimension was supposed to be 12'-9" and instead it was established as 12'-9 9/64". The fraction rounds to 1/8", which resolves in the dimensions (12'-9 1/8"), so I have to fix it or customize the dim text, which would violate various Prime Directives. And it's my fault I didn't catch it before adding
Build it like they build it except when you can’t. Stay organized. Be consistent. Don’t draw anything you can model. Do everything as needed. Meet the demands of the current situation. If you can’t see it, put it off. Throw down an element, then fix it. Fix the mistake when you see it. Fix the whole mistake. Find & Select.
Gravity allows you to "set" elements on top of other elements. Instead of manually setting a Z height, the element will be placed at the top elevation of a slab, roof, or mesh, at the clicked point. These elements can be placed using gravity: Wall, Column, Beam, Object, Lamp, Level Dimension. I works in plan and in the 3D window.
Since AC8, objects have had the ability to have nodes that edit parameters other than height and width. In GDL jargon, this functionality is called Graphical Editing. These nodes respond to the stretch command as well as the stretch button of the pet palette. Even though they can do things besides stretch. Since AC8.1, editing nodes have been diamond-shaped instead
AC8 brought esc-to-cancel, a standard functionality in most software. In AC9, esc is way more useful. Esc will activate the arrow tool. Unless... There's a marquee present. If so, esc removes the marquee. Unless... Elements are selected. If so, esc deselects. Unless... There's a command in process. If so, the command is canceled. In other words, with a command in
You wish you could turn (e.g.) a solid door into a french door while maintaining the other settings (trim etc.). Well wish for something else! Select an object and open the settings. Navigate to the object you want. Hold down Command and Option and click on the new object. Any parameters the two objects have in common will hold their