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Project data & BIM

Best practices for attributes, schedules, templates, favorites, hotlinks, and more

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The Expressions feature in Archicad's Property Manager lets you turn any element into a live calculation engine—no spreadsheet or calculator needed. This workflow uses Property Expressions to compute brick area and total count, then displays results on labels that update ins...

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Data strategy in Archicad is the structured planning and management of model information to ensure consistent, accurate, and standards-compliant data for design, documentation, and collaboration. We know that a BIM project cannot rely solely on a great 3D model. This 3D mode...

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What is IDS IDS is the new standard format developed by buildingSmart, announced publicly on June 2024.While the figures around the adoption of BIM increase year after year, the adoption’s speed is not in tune with the benefits that the methodology can bring into the AEC ind...

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Welcome to our series of articles from the One Override To Rule Them All challenge! We invited some of the participants of the challenge to elaborate on their entries, share their workflows and tips & tricks. Enjoy and feel free to start a thread in the Documentation forum i...

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Note: This article was originally published on AsiaBIM and was written for Archicad 19 mainly for architects working on the Singaporean market.It is a requirement in Singapore to produce and submit color coded floor plans with tabulation of walls that shows legends, buildabi...

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Working with the Zones requires a few manual adjustments which can be missed easily, such as setting the Floor Finish text to represent the same as the Cover Fill set for the floor plan representation. This process can be automatized with a very simple workflow using IFC Map...

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Every now and then the question arises: how to use Archicad as a coordination tool. There are multiple workflows in which you can differentiate and compare the models of different disciplines. Let’s take a look at the following model where architecture was created using Arch...

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There are a lot of cases – even if it is not entirely intentional when you migrate projects. This happens when content made in an earlier version of Archicad is opened in a newer version. These scenarios can include: simple copy-paste from your old projects hotlinking conten...

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I initially wanted to include three topics in one post, then I realized it would be easier to find them later if they were broken down into shorter parts, though they could be related as well. Let’s start with displaying different area units in Zone Stamps – this is a common...

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Although a project's performance is the most important, sometimes the large size of a file can be a problem. This article helps you learn what data is stored in a file and how to achieve a balanced BIM project that does not occupy more storage space than necessary. There are...

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With the introduction of expressions in ARCHICAD 22 users can extract and manipulate information from the model. Follow the steps below to learn how automatically calculate the maximum number of occupants per zone and display it in the zone stamp. Creating Groups, Properties...

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