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Building Materials

A Building Material is a “super attribute”, a combination of multiple attributes having defined properties. All model elements use Building Materials instead of Cut Fills. Building Materials are also available for Stairs, Railings, profile elements, and certain Library Parts (in ...

Bluebeam Connection

Bluebeam Connection is a PDF-based collaboration and markup solution. This add-on provides an easy connection between ARCHICAD (version 21 and later) and Bluebeam Revu (any version). Recommended Workflow From ARCHICAD, save or publish 2D views or layouts as PDFs, then send the PDFs to ...

Frequently Asked Questions About IFC

What is IFC and MVD? The IFC file format is ISO-certified and developed by the IAI (BuildingSMART). IFC is the only open and standard 3D object-oriented exchange format used by BIM (Building Information Modeling). IFC is available free to all software…

Fine-Tune Intersections

To adjust the intersection of elements (or their skins/components), you can do one of the following: Change Building Material Priority (Affects All Project Elements) Select the element that is problematic. Then open the Building Materials dialog box. Notice that the Building Material(s) of ...

Fine-Tune Intersections

To adjust the intersection of elements (or their skins/components), you can do one of the following: Change Building Material Priority (Affects All Project Elements) Select the element that is problematic. Then open the Building Materials dialog box. Notice that the Building Material(s) of ...

Slab Tool Settings

  For a description of generic settings common to all tools in the Toolbox, see Working in Tool Settings Dialog Boxes. The Slab tool is used for drawing and editing slabs, the basic horizontal building blocks of the Virtual Building. For more information, see Slabs. For information ...

Slab Tool Settings

  For a description of generic settings common to all tools in the Toolbox, see Working in Tool Settings Dialog Boxes. The Slab tool is used for drawing and editing slabs, the basic horizontal building blocks of the Virtual Building. For more information, see Slabs. Slab Geometry ...

Virtual Memory Usage

When one works with large files (wants to view in 3D or render large models with ArchiCAD, send and receives into a large Teamwork file or do any other memory consuming operations) and ArchiCAD is crashing or is explicitly warning that it went out of…

Building Materials: Collision Detection Setting

Migrate from ARCHICAD 17 and earlier. The Building Materials dialog box has a “Participates in Collision Detection” checkbox in the Properties panel. This is useful for defining whether particular building components - parts of composite or complex elements - should be exported in ...