Project Mark-Up

Project Mark-Up facilitates communication between designers. You may wish to mark up a design for many reasons - for example to correct and manage a colleague’s errors or deviations from a project’s guidelines, or to make alternative design suggestions.

Use the controls of the Mark-Up Tools Palette (Document > Mark-Up Tools) to add Mark-Up Entries to the project, based on any 2D or 3D view of the project.

A Mark-Up Entry can include:

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an Attached View (screenshot with a real camera position)

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a discussion consisting of comments made by one or several users.

The appearance of an Entry depends on its Mark-Up Style. A Style consists of two colors: for Corrections and for Highlights. It is an attribute defined in the Mark-Up Styles dialog box.

See Mark-Up Styles Dialog Box.

Sharing Mark-Up Information

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Mark-Up Entries in a solo project can be communicated to others via any output of the Publisher. Partners can open the file in ARCHICAD, review the mark-ups, and add comments to the discussion.

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Mark-Up information is also used in ARCHICAD’s IFC-related functions, such as Detect IFC Model Changes.

See Change Detection.

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Mark-Up information is also used in the Detect Collisions function of GRAPHISOFT MEP Modeler.

See Collision Detection.

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If you are exchanging a model in IFC format, you can import a BCF (BIM Collaboration Format) file, whose contents are converted into Mark-Up Entries in ARCHICAD. After adding your own Mark-up changes, you can export it again as a BCF file. The mark-up entries will keep track of the elements referenced in the BCF file (with their IFC global unique identifier, IFC GlobalId), even through multiple merge cycles. It can include an attached view, which is not merely a screenshot: it includes camera position and 3D cutting planes.

Note: BCF is an open standard format officially endorsed by buildingSMART. BCF is used by many structural, MEP and model checker programs to add comments, screenshots, camera position and 3D cutting planes to IFC models.

See Workflows for Using BCF in Project Mark-Up.

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Mark-Up entries in a Teamwork project can be shared directly: just assign any of your entries to another logged-in member, who is alerted to the Mark-Up via an automatic message.

See Teamwork and Project Mark-Up.

Topics in this section:

Project Mark-Up Interface

Workflows for Using BCF in Project Mark-Up

Version Management with Mark-Up

Teamwork and Project Mark-Up

Mark-Up Styles Dialog Box