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Welcome to the GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD Training Series!
This Guide is part of the ArchiCAD Training Series, which currently includes the following materials:
Volume 1: The ArchiCAD BIM Concept
Volume 2: Basic ArchiCAD
Volume 3: Intermediate ArchiCAD
Volume 4: Advanced ArchiCAD
Volume 5: Using Teamwork
You are watching volume three of the training series, called: "Intermediate ArchiCAD".
This is a comprehensive hands-on training material, created to familiarize you with the advanced modeling and documentation tools of ArchiCAD.
This guide is meant for basic ArchiCAD users.
We strongly recommend that you complete Training Series Volume 1 and Volume 2 before starting this one.
This guide is also suitable for using as BIM Curriculum “Exercises” - for Hands-on Practice in universities where ArchiCAD is taught.
Lecturers who would like to use this guide as a BIM Curriculum should visit the educational sites of the GRAPHISOFT website
at www.graphisoft.com / learning / education,
where - after registration, they will be entitled to obtain a full set of training materials suitable for seminar lectures.
This guide contains a PDF e-book that includes detailed explanation of every step presented,along with several screenshots.
It also contains a pre-set ArchiCAD project file to help your learning process.
Preset project views help you to navigate between different steps so you can focus on the core knowledge of ArchiCAD.
Narrated movie clips - such as this clip – are available on the ArchiCAD YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/ArchiCAD,
providing step-by-step instructions for each step of the training guide.
The ArchiCAD YouTube Channel can also be accessed from the Help menu of ArchiCAD.
Enter the name of this Training Guide in the search field to play the related videos.
Please note, that you should have ArchiCAD 17 or later version installed on your computer to open the pre-set ArchiCAD project file of this guide.
The movie clips and the e-book were made with the English language version of ArchiCAD.
For your convenience we recommend you to download and use the same version for practicing.
If you do not have ArchiCAD yet, please visit the myarchicad.com site to obtain a free, fully functional ArchiCAD educational or a 30-day trial license.
If you are a student, a teacher or a representative of a school, register and download a fully functional Education Version of ArchiCAD for Students and Teachers.
If you are a professional architect, register and download a fully functional 30-day trial version of ArchiCAD.
Projects saved with this TRIAL version can be automatically upgraded to FULL versions upon purchase of a commercial license.
Please contact a GRAPHISOFT Partner near you to purchase a commercial ArchiCAD license at: www.graphisoft.com / info / where to buy!
We hope you will find this training useful and share the opinion of architects worldwide:
ArchiCAD is easy to learn and fun to use! We wish you success for your future ArchiCAD projects!
Now, let’s see the project we are going to create.
Double click the ArchiCAD application icon on your desktop to start ArchiCAD.
The ArchiCAD startup screen will appear and shortly after the Start ArchiCAD dialog box will be displayed, providing various options.
In the “Set up Work Environment” pop-up list, select “Standard Profile”.
Select the “Open a Project” and “Browse for a Solo Project” options
and than select the Browse button to open an ArchiCAD project file.
Select the “Complete model” PLA project file in the training project folder,
and click the Open button to open the file of the final project.
Please select the “Read elements directly from Archieve” option,
and click “Open” to proceed.
Open some views in the Navigator View Map to see the building in its final state.
In the Navigator, use the View Map to open some floor plans, sections and 3D views.