What to do when you get stuck
This book is aimed at reaching an intermediate level in using Archicad, in a step-by-step way. However, from our teaching experience, we know that anyone learning to use a new software or application – no matter how well they follow the steps or do the exercises – will reach a point where they get the feeling, I thought I knew this, and I’m pretty sure it should work this way, but it doesn’t. This sense of frustration is completely normal and mostly occurs when you try to apply newly learned techniques within your own projects. To help you overcome this feeling, and any difficulty you might have in using Archicad in your own projects, we would like to provide some tips and tricks.
Remember the on-screen feedback
At the very beginning of the book (Chapter 2, in the Understanding Archicad on-screen feedback section), we showed you how Archicad helps the user to do what the software expects or needs as input. When reviewing...
