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A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad

You're reading from   A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad Boost your design workflow by efficiently visualizing, documenting, and delivering BIM projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246574
Length 612 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ruben Van de Walle Ruben Van de Walle
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Pieter Pauwels Pieter Pauwels
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Archicad – Project Setup and Essential Modeling Tools for Your First Residential Project
2. Chapter 1: What Is Archicad and How Can You Learn It? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Archicad 4. Chapter 3: Building a Basic Residential Model: Modeling the Construction Elements 5. Chapter 4: Building a Basic Residential Model: SPACEAdding Roofs, Zones, Beams, and Columns 6. Chapter 5: Building a Basic Residential Model: Modeling Openings, Stairs, and Objects 7. Chapter 6: Basic Drafting and 2D Views 8. Chapter 7: Adding Annotations and Creating 2D Output 9. Part 2: Becoming an Archicad Professional – Learn About Archicad Tools and Settings to Create and Publish Any Type of Project in Full Detail
10. Chapter 8: Using Advanced Modeling Tools for Developed Design 11. Chapter 9: Using Advanced System Tools for Designing Stairs and Curtain Walls 12. Chapter 10: Using the Mesh tool and Wizards to Finalize a Design 13. Chapter 11: Using Advanced Attributes and the Renovation Tool for a Wider Design Range 14. Chapter 12: 2D Construction Drawings and 3D Views with Linked Annotations 15. Chapter 13: Data Extraction and Visualization 16. Chapter 14: Automating the Publication of BIM Extracts 17. Chapter 15: The Various Visualization Techniques in Archicad 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Some Final Tips and Tricks

Creating a site model using the Mesh tool

Although mesh is a generic term, often used in many 3D modeling applications for a collection of triangles connecting points, in Archicad, it is a specific tool for creating site models in the first place (and can also consist of one or more rectangles, instead of only triangles). The tool was already introduced in Chapter 8, for developing complex roof geometries, but now we will focus on its main application.

Basic mesh

A mesh is a contour-based element, just like a slab or a roof, but it has an important geometrical distinction: its top nodes can vary in height, allowing you to define multiple slopes in a single element. They are a natural fit for model terrains, but there are a few creative uses for them, as we already showed in Chapter 8, in the Complex roof geometry and skylights – sloped flat roofs using the Mesh tool section.

Drawing a mesh contour

Since you already know how to model a slab and a roof, modeling a...

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