Opening new projects

Editing the workspace toolbars

Editing the workspace toolboxes

Editing / overview of some detailed settings in the workspace

Editing and adding ‘favourites’ for tools

Introduction to ArchiCAD’s pen sets

• Editing and changing currents and multiple pen sets

• Saving custom pen sets

Renovation filters: introduction to what they are and what they do

Creating and specify project levels

Introduction to the project map

Applying the project levels when drawing slabs and walls

• Understanding pre determined construction material thickness vs user defined material thickness when drawing walls and slabs

Introduction to the magic wand tool

Creating and using the ‘group’ function

Introduction to archiCAD’s door tool and various settings 

• Understanding ‘parent pages’ and ‘sub pages’ when working with archiCADs tool setting dialogue

• Changing direction of door swings once placed

Introduction to archiCAD’s window tool and various settings

• Understanding anchor points when working with windows and doors

Introduction to the CI Cabinet tool:

• Moving and rotating objects in the model space

• Explanation of the creation and changing of cabinet modules when editing the width of your cabinet object

• Techniques for when editing cabinet doors

• Creating / editing door face types within the cabinet door to suit the door shaker profile chosen for your actual real life project

• Applying these techniques in creating a simple bathroom vanity with shaker profile doors

 Editing ArchiCAD model view options specifically for CI cabinet tools

Techniques to centring objects between two points

Placing elevation markers and an overview of their basic settings:

• Explaining reference IDs

• Linking layout IDs to their viewports

• Moving elevation markers within the model space

Continuation of editing in the CI cabinet tool settings

• Creating new panel styles for side and end panels

Introduction to ArchiCAD layers function

• Applying / changing an objects layer

Creating benchtops for cabinets / joinery using archiCADs slab and beam tools

Creating a shaving cabinet recessed into a wall

Introduction to archiCAD’s ‘opening’ tool to create wall niches

Troubleshooting hidden items intersecting walls that make the wall look ‘cut into' when wall is visible

Creating a custom profile and applying it to the beam tool to then create a custom benchtop edge profile

Importing screenshots of 2D CAD drawings and scaling them into the workspace

Modelling a custom basin from scratch (ie, not using a standard basin object from archiCADs object library) and then saving it as an object item

• Importance of using ‘fills’ when saving custom objects

Creating and saving custom line types 

Cutting sections out of slabs (the benchtop) to allow for undercounter basin opening

Introduction to solid element operations tool

Creating custom seamless material patterns using online websites

• Downloading these images into your ArchiCAD project

Creating your own custom surface in archiCAD

Setting up and creating your own 2D fill pattern in archiCAD

Setting up elevation markers to automatically see surface material fills and hatches

Controlling a fills origin point

• Introduction to setting up surface materials origin and direction when in the 3D model space

Creating a custom herringbone fill pattern and showing ways to control the direction and angle of its applied material

How to link a shaded colour to a type of materiality (exampling this through making all ‘stone’ materiality be shaded yellow automatically in interior elevations)

Modelling a custom tap using the morph tool:

• Setting up 2D lines to use the revolve around morph tool

• Methods to creating a curved spout when modelling (and exampling good use of ‘convert item to morphs’ tool)

• Using te boolean union tool

• Importance of setting morphs materiality before saving as an object

Using new learned skills to create custom knobs to apply to the CI cabinets tool

• Editing locations of knobs on joinery doors within the CI cabinets tool

Standard toilet object vs importing a toilet's 3D file from online

• How to import rfa object files into ArchiCAD

• Explaining the embedde archiCAD library vs downloadable content into ArchiCADs object library

How to change the type of window and door without loosing its common settings

Adding basic architraves onto windows and doors

Creating custom detailed architrave to windows and doors

• Introduction to the railing tool to set up custom architraves

• Editing an architrave size and shape once the railing tool has already been used and all architraves have been drawn throughout the project

Applying previous tutorial knowledge when drawing a custom handle from scratch

• Using and explaining the ‘split’ tool

• Using standard object shapes in ArchiCAD to help create morph shapes 

• Saving custom handles and applying them to doors

• Using model view options to trouble shoot when door hardware is not showing up in elevation views

Explaining the different types of settings you can apply to your selection box when trying to select multiple objects

Creating blade wall composite construction materials to apply to wall construction

Using the wall end tool

Changing fill types of construction materials

How to model channel set shower screen glass vs how to model framed glass shower screens 

Layer intersection levels and how they affect how walls automatically intersect in plan view

How to create a pivot shower screen door

• Touching on tools you can utilise for more custom shower screen doors

Creating a custom hatch colour for glass

• Explaining transparency settings for materials and in elevation marker settings

Creating a simple shower niche

Hiding joinery cabinetry in walls and best settings to use when creating this 

Using layers to show items in 3D but hide in 2D elevations and plans

Downloading and embedding objects from the ArchiCAD object tool and using the above techniques to show hooks on backs of doors that are closed when in 3D but show open in plan

Creating custom decorative flooring

• Applying a custom fill to a slab and editing its direction and scale in plan view

• Creating custom border tiles around flooring edge

• Tips and tricks of showing and aligning grout lines in border tiles

• Creating custom mosaic tiles without the use of pre-saved seamless texture images from online

Basics of modelling kitchen components

• Ideal settings to use in creating shark nose finger pulls on joinery doors 

• Introduction to the use of inset frame settings when detailing shark nose finger pull joinery

• Explaining the use of locking plinth height setting vs locking the cabinet height when editing the height of your cabinet tool object

Importing rfa sinks into your project and placing them into position

Creating full height marble splashbacks

• Creating an opening in the splashback to allow for window and door reveals

• Changing standard material cut fill pen colours vs overriding cut fill pens for certain objects

Importing a .xml custom material file into archiCADs material library (example of importing dulux colour as a custom material to get the exact colour into your model rather than using standard material paint colours)

• Introduction to the attributes manager

Creating a custom cabinet door

• Emphasis on how to create custom arched doors where double doors join to make one large arch

Explanation of creating views and applying them to layout pages

• Exampling the way to show the same elevation or plans from your project map, but saving multiple views with different view settings eg demo plans and overall plans

Saving layout combinations and applying them to new and existing views

Changing scale of existing views to suit layout page size

How to show the same project map location in the same spot on different layout pages but with different view settings (eg demo plan and normal plan shown on different pages but in the same location on the page)

Introduction to the organiser tool

• Batch saving views from the project map

Showing different methods of creating and showing different detailed plan views

Batch placing and editing settings of plans and elevations on layouts

Explaining project info and how to populate this info in different locations

Saving drawing sets and exporting as PDF files

Introduction to creating switches and GPOs using the CI electrical tool

• Editing model view options to suit your drawing scale

Controlling all electrical items to be shown in red pen (explaining graphic override rules and applying them to the project)

Adding and showing power points behind and in joinery

Introduction to creating and applying downlights

Method to creating electrical wiring lines on electrical plans

Methods and tips to cleaning up spacing of dimension lines in plan and elevations

Keyboard shortcut to ‘reuse last tool’ vs using the eye dropper tool

Explanation of ‘element transfer settings’ when applying ‘favourites’ to tools

Introduction to construction grid display

• Creating snap grids and applying it to your model space view

• Setting the origin of your snap grid

Introduction to using the basic label tool

Explaining text anchor points and how that affects where the text scales to when the drawing scale changes

Creating and setting up 3D views

Introduction to basic render settings

Updating your rendering materials from your basic render settings

Showing downlights in render views / editing ‘visible light settings’ 

Changing different levels of light intensity in render settings

Importance of ‘update to current window settings’ tool when working with 3d rendering views

How to save a finished render view

How to photoshop reflection of mirror when post rendering (when you had to cut the wall behind you to get the main render view)