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Construction Documents in AC?

Anonymous
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I'm in the process of switching programs. The last program I tried (CA) was woefully inadequate when it came to const. docs. How does AC handle those? Is it a fairly painless transition to go from modeling to documenting?

Does anyone export to acad to finish their working drawings?
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Eduardo Rolon
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Easy,... YES (using PlotMaker and defining views in AC), NO to AutoCAD. Try to fing the book Project FrameWork in Amazon it will help ou get started.
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
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Anonymous
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quickdraw wrote:
I'm in the process of switching programs. The last program I tried (CA) was woefully inadequate when it came to const. docs. How does AC handle those? Is it a fairly painless transition to go from modeling to documenting?

Does anyone export to acad to finish their working drawings?
An initial template is key to a relatively smooth transition to construction drawings. Money and time invested in a good template system will pay for itself in the first project. Such a template will start with a well thought out layering system designed for Archicad, defaults for most tools set up as favorites or as elements in the drawing whos attributes can be quickly transferred to a given tool, and complete view sets that pre-establish most of your drawings in plotmaker. There are a number of people who could help you with this and paying for their time would get you off to a good start. This template will continually evolve as your learning and understanding of Archicad progress. Good luck.
TDabney
Enthusiast
See this recent thread

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=6124

It would do you a world of good to go to an AC seminar or to get your reseller to give you some basic lessons. Spending big bucks on the software only gets you started - you need to learn how to use the software - that's the MOST important part.

Tom
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