How to draw a stand-alone detail?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good way of drawing stand-aolone, standard details (primarily structural) that I do not want to be part of a story, section, or an automatically-created detail? Should I be using AC or is it better to use Plotmaker?

As always, thanks for the help

[Anonymous]

Best way is to use the "Create a new independent detail" tool in ArchiCad. There you could draw what ever you want in 2d.

/Tobias

[Anonymous]

If you want the detail to be completely independent (for reuse in other projects), you can save it as a module to be imported and modified in future work.

The simplest way is to select the entire drawing and then go to "File > Save as..." and choose "Module" as the format. There is also an option to do this under "File > Hotlinks & Modules". If you use the latter approach, make sure that the check boxes at the bottom of the save dialog are NOT checked.