!Restored: Team work

[Anonymous]

Maybe,is better 2d drawing in archicad,because you dont need to redrawing for 3d, but i insist, that ONLY for 2d drawing face of the project,autocad is faster,even for a non expert user.Simple interface ,basics commants for 2d.
In the 3D-modeling stage, it is sure that Archicad is the king.


Anyway,it is just an opinion.

[Anonymous]

Matthew wrote:
1. Select Line tool <L> (<> = keyboard input, capitals for clarity)
2. Centerlines crossing at intersection; click, click, click, click.
3. Edge of road: Offset tool <O>, spacebar click, <R>, <12'>

As a newbie in AC, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm self-taught and rely mostly on books and a CD. I hadn't found a way to offset a simple line.

This forum is great.

[Anonymous]

I was reading all those posts, and couldn't not say few more words. I was working in an AC office that switched to AC just before I joined the team. Since they had all the details library developed in Autocad and Autocad was customized for architecture they were still finishing details in Autocad. After almost two years of hard war I finally won and we swiched everything to AC. After a month of detail guy didn't wanted even look at Autocad. Autocad is huge powerful software and is like car with huge engine and week transmition and tires. It's hard to stay strait you spin all the time. AC is like well balanced sportcar. Perfectly fit all elements.

[Anonymous]

2D with AC10 will be better. The Helpline would be very useful (as much as I used to use Adobe illustrator.).

[Anonymous]

I recently having a little time off and started doodling with my new archicad 10. Im a little bit dissapointed.

1. Walls still cannot have different fills on plans and in sections (cutted walls)
2. In hidden line 3 d view (internal engine) one can still see the union between the slab and walls if you draw the slab up to the exterior face of wall (the way it is constructed in concrete construction)
3. No more ole. I used to attach excel sheets with information about code compliance and automatic dating in my sheets. Now I have to convert this information to pdf an extra step and bye to automatic updating.
4.One thing good is the automatic story levels in sections and elevations

I hope Im mistaken in some of these sad "discoveries"

[Djordje]

jocontreras wrote:
I recently having a little time off and started doodling with my new archicad 10. Im a little bit dissapointed.

1. Walls still cannot have different fills on plans and in sections (cutted walls)
2. In hidden line 3 d view (internal engine) one can still see the union between the slab and walls if you draw the slab up to the exterior face of wall (the way it is constructed in concrete construction)
3. No more ole. I used to attach excel sheets with information about code compliance and automatic dating in my sheets. Now I have to convert this information to pdf an extra step and bye to automatic updating.
4.One thing good is the automatic story levels in sections and elevations

I hope Im mistaken in some of these sad "discoveries"

1. I would not expect the cut wall to look different in the plan and the section. However, if the wall is lower than the plan cutplane, then it does not appear with any fill in the plan. That is done as it should be.
2. Only if the materials of the adjoining faces are different, as always. In OpenGL there is always a line.
3. Agreed; as disappointed as you are. You have the PDF though - not a substitute by a looong shot.
4. Don't forget to switch them on for printing too if you need them

[Anonymous]

djorge wrote:

2. Only if the materials of the adjoining faces are different, as always. In OpenGL there is always a line.
3. Agreed; as disappointed as you are. You have the PDF though - not a substitute by a looong shot.

2.Correct me if Im wrong. But if you have the adjoining faces of the same material (slab exterior face and wall exterior face, material- general) You would still have a line dividing these faces in the 3d internal engine and in open gl (see drawing)

3. any suggestions for a date stamp?

[David Maudlin]

jocontreras wrote:
2.Correct me if Im wrong. But if you have the adjoining faces of the same material (slab exterior face and wall exterior face, material- general) You would still have a line dividing these faces in the 3d internal engine and in open gl (see drawing)

Jocontreras:

When you use "General" as a material (which is really no material), ArchiCAD uses the pen for the material color, so in your example, the uncut line pen of the slab and the uncut line pen for the wall would need to be the same for the lines to be removed. Better practice is to not use General as a material, but one of the actual materials available, so the pen assignment is not an issue. This is true for the internal engine, not OpenGL.

HTH

David

[Ben Cohen]

your problem is that you are using "General" as material. This is the material you get when you don't have a material. ie Its NOT a REAL material
General has no colour, texture or fill. AFAIK
Change your material to anything else and all will be fine

[Anonymous]

Thank you
I had been a dumb ass all these years

[Anonymous]

Just a thought on 2d drafting and ArchiCAD vs AutoCAD.

In the movie "Other People's Money" with Danny Devito as a corporate raider, he makes a timely observation. He states that it is a dead-end in business to capture an expanding share of a contracting market. In the movie he uses the example of buggy whips.

I believe that 2d drafting software ala AutoCAD is the modern equivalent of buggy whips. Even AutoDesk recognizes this or they wouldn't have purchased Revit.

It doesn't matter how good AutoCAD is at drafting. It is a contracting market. The world of "2d only" is dead. I would however encourage those of you out there that are attached at the hip with AutoCAD to continue with your old ways. In the next 3-5 years or sooner you will be obsolete and one less competitor for me to deal with.

I used AutoCAD for 15 years. I switched my office to ArchiCAD beginning with 8.1 and I will never look back! The only thing I use my AutoCAD seats for now is to check my .DWG translations before I send them to consultants. Even so, there are more economical .DWG applications out there. The best one in my mind is IntelliCAD. When I can no longer use my AutoCAD 2002 seat I will load IntelliCAD on my machines and continue.

Flat-Cadders are "design-o-saurs". BIM is the meteor.

Gary Bley