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The CAD Academy Permission to copy
Find and double click on the ArchiCAD Icon on your desktop Select ArchiCAD 12 TEMPLATE and STANDARD PROFILE from the dialog box AND select NEW
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on WALL from the tools menu
w m s menu – select OK
Double mouse click
You can customize and select all options frothi
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MAKE SURE you have selected this option and then pick a point and head left. Type in 24 and enter and you
wall 24’ in length. will have complete a
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head down 12
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Head to the right 24 and then up 24 to completewalls ocabi
Select the midpoint of the upper wall and
Head to the right and pick – RIGHT MOUSE CLIsel
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u and ect OK.
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Select DOOR from the tools menu and then select a door of yo r choicesel Pick approximately as shown. When yosee an eyeball pick to the insifor the dopen in.
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Select a door of your choice forback door and position as yothe entrance. Next select WINDOW and select window of your choice (notice there asubdirectorof choices)
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Go back to the project browsand select or double mouse click on 1 Pick on the select ARand then WINDOW tcabin to seeverything Go the i e DOCUMENT pull-down an seDOCUMENT EXTRA and AUTOMATIC D O G d T O IMENSIONING
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Notice the options of dimensioning from thmid point of doowindows or the endpoints – select PLACE DIMENSIONS oFOUR SIDEsel Select a WALL and then whyou see the HAMMER this isthe loc tion for the dimensio– pick on the out de ofbuil
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dimensions Use the zootools at the bottom of the screen. Zoom all to continue proj Ta the ESC ketwice to make sure we do not have anyselected Double mouse cli on ROsel
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corner
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Select each of the cabin sequentially – you get feed back whenyou have the ecorner picked Make sure your roof settings match as shown and select OK. Go to the project browser a dthe Generic Perspective to check the roof
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BIM or BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING –
llected while we this software.
Go to DOCUMENand then sCREATIVE IMAGING and thPHOTORENDEPROJECTI Photo rendering While we were creating our model ArchiCAD was collecting the information for our drawing. This is a program –program. Let’s check out what ArchiCAD has coexperimented with
Page Check o
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browser
Check out the project indexes
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dules and ledgends Check out the sche Check out the drawings – the floor plans and elevatioIt is easy to see why BIM makes it easier to design. You can also change something once and it will ch
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ange entation we have just looked at. in all of the docum