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ArchiCAD Training Session Notes

QUESTION	ANSWER SUMMARY AND NOTES	START TIME
Introduction
A large church window needs to cross several stories and show on each individual storey in plan views	Start	0:02:37
	Go into the wall selection settings and change the show on stories setting from, “home story only”, “to show on all relevant stories”.	0:07:37
	Eric illustrates the, “make fills and zones transparent” feature in the trace and reference palette. This feature is useful when you want to see the trace reference more clearly.	0:08:24
How to make a recessed large church window in an inset wall	Start	0:13:50
	The gothic arch opening and its parameters. When going through the parameters, Eric shows the setting that will make the top of the arch either rounded or pointed	0:15:23
	Eric puts a gothic arch opening into the thick wall. And then he puts a thin wall make up piece into the gothic arch opening. This make up piece is to afford the window a host. Finally, Eric puts a window into the gothic arch opening. An alternative method not shown in this tutorial is to use solid element operations for making the opening	0:16:30
Eric talks about his architect internet marketing programme and he says that there are still a few openings left		0:21:58
Question on automatic drawing layout ID and naming		0:23:19
	Eric talks about creating layouts in the layout book	0:23:28
	How to change the colour (color) of master items on layouts from red to a colour (color) of your choice	0:27:05
	How to set up a grid on a layout	0:28:45
	Explanation of categories, “drawing” and “layout” in autotext	0:29:45
Explanation of import blocks from dxf/dwg and save as title type	Start	0:39:55
	Explanation of import blocks from dxf/dwg command	0:40:35
	Explanation of save as title type command	0:48:48
	How to use autotext with the save as title type command (this would be used to add automatically updating fields to the save as title type command). Note: although these fields can update automatically they aren’t parametric i.e. you can’t stretch lines etc.	0:51:50
How to use imperial and metric units in the same project	Start	0:58:39
	How to use quick options to switch the dimension units between imperial and metric on the fly	1:05:12
	How to create two views in the same project – one using imperial units and the other view using metric units	1:05:38
	How to show both metric and imperial dimensions in the same drawing.	1:06:42
	Note: when showing metric and imperial dimensions in the same drawing; the converted dimension will need refreshing to update if a dimension is altered	1:08:24
Question on the ability to work with an imperial and metric library in the same project	Start	1:10:15
Loading in beam profiles that comply to building codes	Start	1:15:50
	Any beam profile can be loaded in that complies with building codes. (There are also options to choose a particular building code from a particular country)	1:17:30
Reflected ceiling plans	Overview on creating reflected ceiling plans. Looking at model view options and layer combinations etc.	1:23:50

ArchiCAD Training Session Notes

ArchiCAD Training – Coaching Call – April 25, 2012

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