Building Materials: Attribute Migration Issues
Migrate from ARCHICAD 16 and earlier.
Building Material: The New “Super-Attribute”
Starting with ARCHICAD 17, all construction ...
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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 ...
Building Systems (Energy Evaluation)
Open the Building Systems dialog box from:
•the Model Review Palette’s pop-up at the top right
•Design > Energy ...
Views of the Virtual Building
This section of the ARCHICAD Reference Guide explains the different model views of the Virtual Building: e.g. Sections, 3D views, schedule views. ...