BIM Survey shows Graphisoft ArchiCAD as the Industry Standard

Auckland, New Zealand – 11 May, 2012 – Graphisoft New Zealand Masterspec recently announced the results from their 2012 Nationwide BIM Survey. With a total of 524 industry respondents (81% architects and architectural designers), the results provide a credible picture of present day standards, attitudes and the progress made towards BIM in New Zealand. The

Palettes in background

Sometimes when reading information from one application like ArchiCAD to another it is necessary to tile windows across screens to transfer the information, sometimes this information is in dialogues and palettes the Work Environment has an option to keep these visible when ArchiCAD is in the background.

ArchiCAD 16 is on it’s way

As you have no doubt already heard, ArchiCAD 16 is due to be released at the end of this month (if you hadn’t already heard about this, you can find out more here). Here at Cadimage, we are currently working hard on getting our tools all ready to be released at the same as the

Moving Hotlinks

With Hotlink modules placed into your Project, to move and rotate them, the Suspend Groups feature needs to be turned off.  Do this by going toEdit > Grouping and un-highlight Suspend Groups, or un-highlight the Suspend Groups icon witthin the Standard Toolbar. Now the inserted hotlinks will be able to be moved and rotated freely.

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Scheduling Wall Coverings areas

Cadimage Wall Coverings have the ability to model multiple different cladding or siding materials on the same wall structure, with a bit of digging in the ArchiCAD interactive schedule Additional Parameters you can pull out the area of each cladding type. These of can then be totalled and used for costings and construction investigations.  

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Turn a live Section into lines

If you want to create a static draft of your Section (or Elevation) you can turn the section information into just lines and fills.  Open the Section Settings, within General change the Status: to Drawing. NOTE: This will now not relate to any model changes you make – it is a static line drawing.  

Attribute Transfer

Most tools in ArchiCAD rely on Attributes. Attributes include Pens, Line types, Fills, Materials and so on. All attributes that already exist are managed by the Attribute Manager. Over time and as you become more experienced with ArchiCAD you will begin to create your own attributes; more than likely you are already in the form

ArchiCAD 16 – BIM Components at Your Fingertips

ArchiCAD 16 – BIM Components at Your Fingertips BUDAPEST, May 2, 2012 – GRAPHISOFT® announced today ArchiCAD® 16, the latest version of its premium BIM design software for architects. ArchiCAD 16 introduces a comprehensive ecosystem of solutions to ease the creation, sharing, and finding of custom BIM Components. Built-in Energy Evaluation turns ArchiCAD 16 into

Edit Selection Set – Hammer Tool

The Shortcut for the “Hammer Tool” Edit Selection Set is Command+Option+T (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+T (PC), handy when changing lots of elements settings such at details.

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Filtering Elements in 3D

There are many ways to control what is shown in 3D, Multi-story Marquees, Layer Manipulation and Filtering Elements. Go to View > Elements in 3D View > Filter Elements in 3D… Within this Dialog choose what you want to filter out. It is divided into 3 sections. Stories to Show: You can set a Story