Category Method

Names: Navigator

How to keep the navigator organized? What is the naming system for viewpoints and views?

Names: The Project Folder

Boring but important: how names for file folders and files work, and where we put things.

Names: The File Name

Boring but important: how the naming system works. This post dovetails with The Project Folder post.

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:

Data Safety

We’re an office. We have stuff on hard drives. They go kaput every once in a while: count on it. Here’s the data protection overview.