Best Practices for Archicad by Building an Office Building.

Learn to set up ArchiCAD’s unit system via project preferences, switch to centimeters and meters, adjust linear dimensions and level decimals, and save a custom SP preset.

Adjust floor levels for an office building in Archicad by adding a street level, setting elevations to 0 and 100, and aligning heights to 450 cm before arranging grids.

Create and adjust a grid system and columns in Archicad by setting basic geometry, column size, and distances, then view and hide grids in 3D and ground floor displays.

Place toilets and stairs, and establish the elevator core for the office building. Adjust stair settings, landings, flights, and walls, add a curtain column and fire doors.

This lecture guides designing restrooms and back entrance in Archicad, detailing wall types, gypsum plasterboard, cabinetry, basins, shafts for air circulation and elevator, and precise door placements.

Learn to build across multiple stories in Archicad, align stairs to home stories, copy elements between floors, and set up doors, partitions, and a kitchen and security hall.

Learn to model office spaces by adding partition walls and divider panels, install storefront doors and windows, apply gypsum plasterboard and aluminium structures, and create multi-story slabs with polygonal method.

Model a terrace storey in Archicad, preparing beams and floor slabs, while managing walls and stairs. Apply reinforced concrete for slabs and columns with 15 cm thickness and precise offsets.

Place and reinforce beams with the beam tool, set cross section to 50 by 25, adjust reference axis, group and extend them, and inspect in 3d cutaway with layers.

Explore designing interior furnitures for an Archicad office building, using partitions, furniture layouts, kitchen layout features, and linked executive series libraries to create open, closed, and executive spaces.

Learn to place and adjust interior furniture and audience seating in Archicad, configure seat layouts and rows, copy objects between floors, and manage floor plan visibility for beams.

Begin by placing an entrance door and curtain wall, adjust boundary frames and margins, and customize panels, mullions, and materials to create a cohesive entrance in Archicad.

Apply a composite exterior wall profile to facade walls to reveal exterior cladding while avoiding interference from columns and beams, and adjust junction order and layer settings.

In this Archicad walkthrough, learners configure office building windows—select storefronts, switch from wood to aluminium, adjust frames and seals, set reveal details, and place openings across elevations.

Create the building foundation at street level, add a waterproofing curtain wall, place reinforced concrete slabs, and finish with tile flooring, sidewalks, and road pavements to integrate the site.

Create plasters and gypsum veneers for interior walls and columns, adjust plaster thickness to 0.5, 15cm, and 30cm, and apply brick double plastered and composite profiles.

Apply veneer to beams in Archicad by creating a reinforced concrete beam profile in profile manager, offsetting fills, and aligning the veneer with slabs and walls in 3d and sections.

Fixes section details by adjusting grids and markers, aligning panel and window heights, tweaking levels and visibility of interior furniture, and refining stairs and lines for clearer sections.

Learn to model the main stair railing in Archicad for an office building by using a metal railing, rectangular profile, posts, and the railing tool to create sections.

Learn to create and manage office building zones in Archicad using the zone tool, with automatic updates, borders, labels or stamps, and customizable zone settings across building plans.

Learn how to create exterior and interior dimensions for floor plans in Archicad, including layer management, dimension styles, and section dimensioning techniques.

Master graphical override settings in Archicad to customize floor plans with color fills, cut and cover fields, and per floor rules for columns, walls, and objects.

Refine office building elevations by cropping views, setting depth, adjusting line weights, toggling transparency, and applying marker, grid, and dimension settings to produce clean, publication-ready elevations.

Create and manage sheets and layouts for Archicad projects, master sheets and A2 landscape layouts, place views, auto tags, and publish organized pdf sets.

Publish the Archicad project by configuring publishing properties, choosing pdf output and file structure, selecting a local or cloud path, and updating drawing names, layouts, and vmap references.

Create auto text in Archicad and place it on sheets or anywhere in the project, with master layout adapting to sheet name and including date, drawing id, and details.