Friday, April 17, 2009

How to draw floor plan with Archicad of Graphisoft

Archicad is powerful BIM software, created by Graphisoft, that helps architects or home builders in designing buildings or houses. It has been used to design simple houses to complicated buildings. On the following tutorial, I am going to tell you how to design a simple floor plan of a house using some drawing tools Archicad has.
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First, launch your Archicad software. Then, create a new project. Click the wall tool on the left tool box and draw floor plan of a simple house like the following picture.
After drawing the walls of the rooms, you can continue by drawing doors, and windows using the drawing tools on the left tool box. Archicad has a number of standard doors, windows and other object which you can use to design the house.
If you have finished designing the simple house, you can see the three dimensional form of the house by pressing Ctrl + F5. Your house should look like this.
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by Charles Roring in Manokwari of West Papua - Indonesia
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