topic Re: Finding/Importing Laboratory-Specific CAD Objects in Modeling

Finding/Importing Laboratory-Specific CAD Objects

ml78 — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:10:46 GMT

I am very new to Archicad. I will be using this program to design clinical laboratory spaces. Can someone direct me on how to find 3d CAD images of laboratory equipment and objects?

Re: Finding/Importing Laboratory-Specific CAD Objects

Ricardo Lopez — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:06:44 GMT

Hi. You can check that type of 3D assets in webpages like: bimobject, 3dwarehouse , etc. and depending on the file format available (rfa, skp, lcf, gsm, etc.) you can import it directly to Archicad.

Re: Finding/Importing Laboratory-Specific CAD Objects

ml78 — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:43:12 GMT

Thank you!

Re: Finding/Importing Laboratory-Specific CAD Objects

Lee Hankins — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:20:13 GMT

Just a word of warning. A lot of these websites produce Archicad objects that are converted from other formats so can have many polygons and be much less efficient than proper Archicad GDL objects. This can bloat your file and slow it down. We tend to use as close as possible one of the built in objects and where we need to generate views of specific areas we use the actual objects on a different layer. It keeps the file size down.

Re: Finding/Importing Laboratory-Specific CAD Objects

ml78 — Tue, 10 May 2022 21:05:41 GMT

Thank you!