When you want to create a rendering of a home or other interior, sometimes you want to have a certain picture hanged on the wall. Or you need a TV screen or a digital board in a classroom. Picture, TV and Digital Board objects are built-in library pa...
Objects on BIMcomponents.com ARCHICAD’s modeling capabilities, connected with the cloud-based BIM Component database allows you to create, search, upload, and download custom BIM components of your choice. The fully-integrated web portal makes sharin...
ARCHICAD users often need to place texts containing numbers incrementally increasing with placement, e.g. steps of stairs, parking places, etc. With some basic GDL programming knowledge you can create a simple object that contains this text. In the 2...
This description will take you through an example of assigning a property object to a wall. The property object can have one or more properties and these properties can be programmed, linked to a database and used for material takeoffs. The same conc...
Normally if you'd like to change the type of a Door, Window or Object, ARCHICAD loads the default settings of that library part. But if the Door, Window or Object has once been customized precisely, you don't want to set everything again in the new t...
This article explains how you can simplify the 2D Symbol Floor Plan View of a custom Window Object in few steps. We have a custom Window placed in the project. The 2D Symbol (as it appears on the Floor Plan) of the custom GDL Objects is automatically...
With the growing complexity of object libraries, a method of tracking Library parts and their revised versions was developed for ARCHICAD 8. In short, two GUIDs - internally coded 16-byte numbers -, in combination with the object (file) name, identif...
