A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad

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Building a Basic Residential Model: Modeling the Construction Elements

In this chapter, we will cover the basic modeling concepts of Archicad, needed for a first small-scale residential model. Many of the tools and techniques introduced in this chapter will be repeated and expanded later in a second, more complicated model. This is an extensive but necessary chapter. Here are the topics covered in this chapter:

• Navigating in 2D/3D and learning the basics of modeling
• Modeling tools in general
• Core construction—walls and slabs
• Using drawing aids in Archicad

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need our demonstration model, which can be downloaded from GitHub (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/A-BIM-Professionals-Guide-to-Learning-Archicad/blob/main/DEMO.pln ...