Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Getting Started with Archicad – Project Setup and Essential Modeling Tools for Your First Residential Project
1
What Is Archicad and How Can You Learn It?
Introducing BIM and Archicad
About Graphisoft and Archicad – a short history
Installing Archicad
Platform requirements
Older versions of the software
Licensing
License types
Migrating between license types
Localized versions
Requirements for this book
The approach in this book
What to expect as a reader
Version and units in this book
Summary
Further reading
2
Getting Started with Archicad
Technical requirements
Understanding the Archicad installation
What is installed?
Other languages or versions
Understanding the Archicad UI
Getting to know the main UI components ...
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