On the floor plan, the section tool is chosen, and a straight section is drawn from right to left. The slabs are selected in 3D, and in the Slab Settings dialog, the edge material is changed to match the walls. The slabs (in the USA version) have a different edge material, so they contrast to the exterior walls. The process is repeated for the upper story, then the building is again viewed in 3D. The slab tool is activated, and the polygon method chosen so that the wall footprint can be manually traced. The Edit menu > Select All command is used with the Wall tool active, which then becomes Select All Walls the height is easily adjusted for all the walls in a single step using the Info Box. In this case, the option is chosen to place slabs in between the lower and upper walls, so the ground floor walls are lowered to make room. The building is viewed in 3D, and studied, where it is clear that the walls of the two stories are stacked directly on top of each other. The doors are inserted in quick succession using the special snaps. A copy of this window is then mirrored across the centerline of its own wall so that these two windows are symmetrically arranged. One window is dragged into position in line with a window in an opposing wall.
The windows are placed, with some of them set to different sizes and in one case, to a different glazing pattern with a horizontal-vertical grid. The trace reference is again turned on, so that the window tool can be activated with the eye-dropper clicking on one of the lower floor windows then the reference is turned off to make it easier to work. In addition to coordinate input, occasionally other snaps and references are used to determine the wall placement. The trace reference is turned off to simplify the view, then the starting point for the first wall is determined using an automatic guideline projected from the left hand wall up towards the back wall of the building.Īt the intersection snap point, the first wall is started, and the outline is quickly created using the tracker palette. The eye-dropper is used to pick up the settings of the ground floor exterior walls, which are seen in the trace image. We switch to the upper story, and right-click on the ground floor to show it as a trace reference (or in ArchiCAD 10 as a “ghost story”). The development of the QuickStart Building continues from the last lesson.
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