Marc wrote:
and there's a Manual for the SE Library? ... I'll have to check that out.
SHINGO -
Don't forget to download the PDF Manuals for the Special Edition Library. They are found at the same URL for downloading the library. The Window manual is 40 or so pages and the door manual is another 40 or so pages. Much of the same stuff is covered in each manual, so once you have studied one, the other goes pretty fast. The manual I found to be of most interest was the "Detailer User's Guide". I worked through it and it's tutorials and will use it for detail development in my current project.
The door and window manuals are okay, better then what you usually get from Graphisoft, but many important issues are not addressed and you will just have to go by trial and error.
The manuals appear to be more PR, then a study guide, pionting out all the great new features, but leaving it up to the user to figure out how to configure the features.
A major oversight is that there is no glossary that defines the limits of each input dialog, you just have to guess and hope. You will know when you exceed the input value.... ArchiCAD will CRASH.
I hand sketched each "window dialog tab" on paper, leaving the input data blank. Then I made xerox copies of the sketches and keep track of how the data input affected the out come for each window I tried to make. Then I made a list of the limits that each dialog value would accept. I finally got some pretty nice windows and doors, but still did not have the flexiabilty found in Cadimage Door/Window Builder.
And let's not even talk about door and window schedules.
ArchiCad 21 / OS X 10.13.5 /
iMac 3.2GHz i5 - 32GB /AMD Radeon R9 M390 - 2048 MB/
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