Routing With the Magic Wand

Use ARCHICAD's Magic Wand function to place a series of connected MEP elements with a single click:

Set preferences on the MEP Routing palette and click Start Routing.

Press the Spacebar to activate the Magic Wand, then click on an existing polyline or polygon.

The MEP route is placed.

In contrast to the Magic Wand operation with regular ARCHICAD tools, the Magic Wand used during MEP Routing will not reproduce curved elements; a straight segment will connect the two endpoints of the curved element. Thus, all MEP routed elements placed using the Magic Wand method will be straight segments (connected by bends as needed).

Note: The Magic Wand method for placing routed elements works only as the initial step in an MEP Routing operation.

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