CGD 30 2/19/12 Tutorial for Brooke
Today were supposed to start Doors and work on the second floor.
Look at Anebel’s Tips on iLearn
for making walls
Goal: Put doors and windows on the first floor. Put them in your desired places.
Open ArchiCad
When you open the program notice that the first floor is selected:
Use the 3D tab
to look at the house in 3D To get a better view.
We want to work on the 2nd FLOOR though. To do that:
Click on this button
Project Map then click on 2nd floor. You’ll get this:
A blank layout. Because the first and second house plans are two
different plans so you have to create on a blank slate.
Also notice that the second floor is now selected
Right click on first floor and click show as trace reference
The first floor will show up.
Still following the same house layout we did for first floor. On iLearn click on
then follow this plan:
We can decide what we want to do for the second floor. Such as where we want rooms and size. But
keep in mind transfer of air throughout rooms, sun location, accessibility, and maneuverability.
Click on 2nd Floor
and click on Wall
then click on
Then click on this:
to get exterior walls.
Have these two buttons selected:
Double Click on Wall
Get this all selected and click OK.
to get the Wall Default Settings: You'll get this:
Make these walls using the wall feature and click OK
Start at the inside wall and go around the outside.
Your goal is to get this:
Click on the Horizontal wall in the middle. Now hold and drag to get it the walls to line up. Then connect
the vertical wall with the horizontal one.
Then go here:
Click on this box:
the Interest box to get this it closes the box:
We want to begin making the bathroom so change the settings to this:
Click on the outside wall, hold the shift and select all the outside walls then change the settings to below
Windows are 6” by 8” To get them to line up with doors.
Put doors where there should be doors and put windows where there should be windows.
That's your freedom.
Click on West Elevation to get the west side view of the house.
Click these
Click these
for side of house.
to see top view.
Now figure out where you want the doors and windows to be on the top floor of the house.
If you don’t have the height right then the windows and doors will go crazy. Pay attention to that.
So select the entire top floor then modify the wall selection settings to this:
Now select
and place some into the house. She also wanted us to make some sort of
closet so I threw one in as well.
I ended up with this for the class work. I’m going to modify it to be more like my style but you get the
idea. Make the top section of the house putting doors and windows in and creating a closet.
Have fun. :) Any questions, just asked me. If I don't know the answer I'll find out.