Category Modeling

Buried Tolerance Toggle

Stymied by lack of significant digits in library part, fill, or curtain wall dialog boxes?

The fix is a Preference: Angle and Font Size Decimals in Dialog Boxes.

fill dialog

working units

Trim

 

Who knew? We have many options for quickly and effectively modeling trim in traditional and contemporary structures. One of the last steps in reaching a true “no drafting” state of bliss regarding elevations, both exterior and interior.

Profile Tip: Timber Beam

A simple and useful tip from ArchiCAD talk, but perhaps more useful to inspire profile tool lateral thinking.

Best Practices: Material Schemes

Material taxonomy is a big loose end in our standard template. Sigh.

2d Objects for Window and Door Detailing

Almost-flat Roofs

Archicadwiki has a nice – because short and to the point – article about how to model flat or near-flat roofs using various interacting combinations of slab, mesh, and roof.

Jump to link.

Dimensions: Ground Rules

“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
Louis I. Kahn

Metiendo Vivendum – ‘By Measure We Live’
Motto of Sir Edwin Lutyens

Composite Fit to Skin

No need to apply manual insulation objects to walls that require batt fill. Create a composite and set the fill to “fit to skin”.

The toggle to look for:

Example on plan:

One-to-One Textures

Textures are typically understood to be a repeating module marching across the surface of an element. Which is why so many of them are so bad – it is not that easy to work out the edges of each texture image to seamlessly match up with itself on all sides.

Wall Cleanup Tip using Column Tool

Passing along a tip from onland.info.