ArchiCAD

Quick Start

Details, Project

Info & sheets

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The CAD Academy

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Details: You can create details by using

details created in other CAD

packages or by using geometry from

your existing drawing. Open the

Afloor project.

Let’s say that you need to create a

detail of the door framing and

connections.

Under the DOCUMENT tool box

locate DETAIL. You may have to

use the slider on the right

to find it.

A couple of interesting

options are that you can

make any size detail box

and of course ArchiCAD

automatically place the

information on the correct

layer.

Using the SQUARE option window

corner of the door as shown at right

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Use corner as shown for anchor point

Resulting detail and notation information

We now have detail information in the Project

Navgator – you can tell because of the plus sign.

Select the PLUS sign.

Double click on your new detail.

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You can now

add or delete

information

from the

detail. For

instance use

the select tool

to delete the

door number.

We can

now use

any

tools in

the

toolbox

for the

detail. We can use text

to label the material or

information about the

frame – or add fill or

even add new

information with lines,

arcs, etc.

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When detail is complete

detail double click back to

FIRST FLOOR in the

navigator – you can return

at any time to update or

change the detail.

RIGHT mouse click on

DETAILS in the project

navigator and select NEW

INDEPENDENT DETAIL.

This option allows for changing this

information if you would like.

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Select CREATE. You now have a blank sheet where you may create a

completely new detail

or

You could bring in a

detail that was drawn

in another CAD

package by selecting

FILE – EXTERNAL

CONTENT and

DRAWING

MANAGER.

I could now find a

detail file created

elsewhere and

insert it into my

ArchiCAD detail.

Lesson is complete.

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Project Info:

You can place information about your project in a specific place and then

reuse that information when you need to. ArchiCAD is all about making life

easier for the user.

Go to FILE and INFO and then select

PROJECT INFO.

Please fill in information for this project -

you can make it up – so we can use that

information in SHEETS.

Fill in information as shown or

make up information for

Project Info.

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Select SHEETS from the Navigator

Find and RIGHT CLICK on MASTERS and

select NEW MASTER LAYOUT

Name your layout and select CREATE

Select SETTINGS

and then choose a

“D” size

Architectural sheet

size.

Select OK.

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This is a

blank

sheet –

we can

now

create a

title block

for the

sheet. I

used a

polyline

and measured from the left hand corner with the X option – you need to put

in inches as the program defaults to feet. So type in X and then 30”+ and

draw a line down the side of the page.

Draw lines as desired for

title block – use text to

label.

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Using the

Auto insert

option you can

place in

Project

information

automatically

into the title

block.

This is an example of a

couple of items that

could be included in the

title block.

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Fields filled in

automatically from the

information we placed in

the FILE pulldown and

PROJECT INFO.

Double click on

On A101 first floor

plans.

To use our new title sheet for

this project you can right

click on A-101 and select

layout settings.

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Arrow down on Master

Layout and select the layout

you just created.

Select OK

Drawing now

reflects the new

title block just

created.

Lesson

Complete