Archicad 24 Essential Training

Learn how to use Archicad 24, a tool used by architects in the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry for designing buildings from concept to construction.

Introduction

• Design your vision with Archicad
• Versions of Archicad
• The foundation of VDC or BIM is parametric modeling
• Brief history of VDC or BIM in AEC
• History of Archicad and GRAPHISOFT
• Why Archicad?
• Archicad out of the box
• Approaching this course

1. User Interface

• Help
• Toolbox
• Info Box
• Menus
• Toolbars
• Palettes
• Pet palettes
• Navigator and Organizer
• Project map
• View Map
• Layout Book
• Publisher Sets
• Quick Options Bar
• Customization and optimization
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Work environment

2. Project Preferences

• Working units
• Dimensions
• Calculation units and rules
• Zones
• References levels
• Project location
• Set project north
• Project information

3. Attributes

• Layers
• Line types
• Fill types
• Building materials
• Pens
• Composites
• Surfaces
• Attribute Manager

4. Programming

• Drawing tool
• External content
• Interoperability
• Virtual trace
• Fill tool
• Zone tool
• Line tool
• Polyline tool

5. Schematic Design

• Slabs
• Walls
• Doors
• Windows
• Columns
• Beams
• Roofs
• Shells
• Curtain walls
• Objects
• New objects
• Zones
• Meshes
• Composites
• Priorities
• MEP
• Stairs
• Railings

6. Design Development

• Document tools
• Layers
• Model view
• Graphic overrides
• Renovation
• Pen sets
• Partial structural display
• Layout book
• Master layouts
• Grid elements
• Lighting
• Spline
• Nodes
• Image tool
• Cameras
• Visualization

7. Construction Documents

• Publisher Sets
• Detailing
• Dimension tool
• Elevation tool
• Section tool
• Interior Elevation (IE) tool
• Level Dimension tool
• Text tool
• Label tool
• Model checking
• Manage issues
• Advanced Excel export
• Structural analytical model

8. Bidding and Negotiation

• Schedules
• Quantity take off
• Property manager
• Expressions

9. Construction Administration

• Markup tool
• BIMx Desktop Viewer
• BIMx docs
• Construction sketches

10. Advanced Collaboration

• Laser scanning
• Modules
• Hotlinks
• Model comparison

11. Experimental

• PARAM-O
• Experimental features

Conclusion

• Next steps