How to create a dutch gable roof

26 January 2012 No Comments James Service
ArchiCAD, ArchiCAD 15, Tip of the Day

The new Roof Tool in ArchiCAD 15 has a few tricks ups it’s sleeve.

To create a Dutch Gable roof you need to create a roof with two levels and separate the levels by the different between the pitching line and the bottom of the gable. You can then set the top level top have a gable end instead of a hip.


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Keys for Keynotes

25 January 2012 No Comments Andrew Watson
ArchiCAD, Keynotes, Tip of the Day

When using keynotes, be careful not to include spacebar characters in the keys. If you do this, the keynotes tool won’t work. Rather than spaces, use another character such as a period or a hyphen. So use 2.01.19  or 2-01-19 rather than 2 01 19.


GRAPHISOFT Releases ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012

23 January 2012 No Comments Joshua Osborne
ArchiCAD

BUDAPEST, January 16, 2012 – GRAPHISOFT today announced the release of ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012, the latest release of its entry-level Building Information Modeling (BIM) solution. The new ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012 is based on the robust BIM technology of ArchiCAD 15, but with a feature set and price tailored to the needs of small



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Where do you Publish?

20 January 2012 No Comments Joshua Osborne
Tip of the Day

When you’re publishing sets of drawings to file, remember to set the path to something sensible before you do so (otherwise the publish job will finish and you won’t know where the files are). To set the path, click the Up One Level button in the publisher dialog, and then select your publish set and



Following the Outline of a Mesh with a profile

19 January 2012 3 Comments Joshua Osborne
Extrusions, Tip of the Day

As you may know, the Cadimage Extrusion Tool can extrude a profile along a path. This path can be drawn on the fly, or you can draw a path with polylines and extrude along that. But did you know that it can extrude a path along the edge of a Mesh? All you need to



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Master Layouts and the Door and Window Schedule

17 January 2012 No Comments Mark Horrocks
Doors+Windows, Tip of the Day

A feature of the Cadimage Doors+Windows Schedule, is the ability to dynamically position your schedule elements based on Master Layout content. In the example shown, the relevant Master Layout has been overlaid using Trace and Reference so you can see that the title block is positioned up the right hand side of the page. There



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Cadimage Tools in German

16 January 2012 No Comments Christine Trummer
Cabinets, Cadimage, Coverings, Detail Elements, Doors+Windows, Extrusions, Keynotes, Planting, Product News, Revisions, Sites+Massing, Support, Tip of the Day, Tools

It is awesome – all Cadimage Tools are also available in German! And that is not the end, the Website and our Knowledge Base is available in German, too. You can even get German Support… So if you are based in Germany or another German speaking country, like our friends from Switzerland and Austria, you



Kitchen Sink?

13 January 2012 No Comments Glen Richardson
ArchiCAD 13, ArchiCAD 14, ArchiCAD 15, Objects, Tip of the Day

If you got everything but the kitchen sink for Christmas. You can get your Kitchen Sink from our website. While you are there, check out the other awesome objects that are also available.  Like Taps.


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Looking to tune up your ArchiCAD skills?

12 January 2012 No Comments James Service
ArchiCAD, Tip of the Day

Wanting to get up to speed with ArchiCAD over the summer break? The ArchiCAD interactive training guides are a great resource of material. Everything from the basics to advanced modelling and collaboration using teamwork are covered. If you don’t have a copy of ArchiCAD you can download your own from myarchicad.com


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Place a Kitchen Sink

11 January 2012 No Comments Andrew Watson
ArchiCAD, Cadimage, Tip of the Day

When you place a kitchen sink onto an object or a slab used to model a bench, use Solid Element Operations to cut a hole in the slab. Select the sink and set it to be the Operator. Select the object or slab and choose it to be the Target. Then choose the Operation type



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