ARCHICAD 23 Essential Training

On September 10, 2020

Release date:2019, September 26

Author:Willard Williams

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Explore the powerful tools and techniques of ARCHICAD, used by many architects as part of their building information modeling (BIM) workflow. In this ARCHICAD 23 course, licensed architect Willard Williams shows you how to set up your ARCHICAD environment and demonstrates both basic and advanced tools. He covers the actual stages of architecture, making it easy to relate how features can be leveraged for daily, real-world activities. Willard dives into modeling and documentation, including working with specific tools and various techniques necessary to bring a project from sketch to production drawing and the nuances in between.
Topics include:
Navigating an ARCHICAD project
Setting up working units and stories
Importing drawings
Modeling walls, slabs, doors, and windows
Grouping and ungrouping objects
Creating sections and elevations
Working with dimensions
Publishing drawings
Modeling and documenting detailed designs

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01 – Design your vision with ARCHICAD
02 – The foundation of VDC or BIM is parametric modeling
03 – Brief history of VDC or BIM in AEC
04 – History of ARCHICAD and Graphisoft
05 – Why ARCHICAD
06 – ARCHICAD out of the box
07 – Approaching this course
08 – Toolbox
09 – Info box
10 – Menus
11 – Toolbars
12 – Palettes
13 – Pet palettes
14 – Navigator and organizer
15 – Project map
16 – View map
17 – Layout book
18 – Publisher sets
19 – Quick options
20 – Customization and optimization
21 – Keyboard shortcuts
22 – Work environment
23 – Working units
24 – Dimensions
25 – Calculation units and rules
26 – Zones
27 – References levels
28 – Project location
29 – Set project north
30 – Project information
31 – Layers
32 – Line types
34 – Building materials
35 – Pens
36 – Composites
37 – Surfaces
38 – Attribute manager
39 – Drawing tool
40 – External content
41 – Interoperability
42 – Virtual trace
43 – Fill tool
44 – Zone tool
45 – Line tool
46 – Polyline tool
47 – Slabs
48 – Walls
49 – Doors
50 – Windows
51 – Columns
52 – Beams
53 – Roofs
54 – Shells
55 – Curtain walls
56 – Objects
57 – Zones
58 – Meshes
59 – Composites
60 – Priorities
61 – Document tools
62 – Layers
63 – Model view
64 – Graphic overrides
65 – Renovation
66 – Pen sets
67 – Partial structural display
68 – Layout book
69 – Master layouts
70 – Grid elements
71 – Lighting
72 – Spline
73 – Hotspot tool
74 – Image tool
75 – Cameras
76 – Visualization
77 – Publisher sets
78 – Detailing
79 – Dimension tool
80 – Elevation tool
81 – Section tool
82 – Interior elevation tool
83 – Level dimension tool
84 – Text tool
85 – Label tool
86 – Schedules
87 – Quantity take off
88 – Property manager
89 – Expressions
90 – Markup tool
91 – BIMx docs
92 – Construction sketches
93 – Laser scanning
94 – Modules
95 – Hotlinks
96 – Next steps