In this Interactive Training Guide you will be provided with step by step instructions to build the Massaro House, using ArchiCAD’s  BIM  architectural environment, also known as the Virtual Building™ concept. Frank Lloyd Wright designed this project to accentuate a specific New York island in 1950. The Massaros ran the plans by a Frank Lloyd Wright expert architect, Thomas A. Heinz, AIA, who used ArchiCAD to create the construction documentation based on Wright’s 5 original pencil drawings. This interactive guide is intended to support your early ArchiCAD experiences.
 

The following topics are covered in this training modul:

• Conceptual Design: working with Slabs, Walls and Columns, adding Stories and Roofs.
• Design Evaluation: creating Sections and Elevartions, adding and adjusting openings and furniture.
• Construction Documentation: Adding associative dimension chains, 3D Zones, creating elements schedules and detail drawings.
• Presentation and Publishing: creating photorenderings, working with Layout Book, Master layouts. Publishing the project in various formats.

• Saving 2D symbols and 3D models as GDL objects;
• Rotating auto-saved objects and adding material parameters to Library Parts;
• Auto saving rectangular doors and non-rectangular windows, creating custom door panels;
• Basic and advanced GDL scripting.

• DWG, DXF, PDF file export and import;
• Universal 3D, XREF and IFC support;
• Project Hotlinks and Hotlinked Modules;
• Project Mark-Up and Reviewer;
• Teamwork.

• Generic modeling: basic volumes and shapes;
• Architectural modeling: structural grids, terrains, slanted- and composite walls, columns, beams, stairs and roofs;
• Special openings: skylights, corner windows;
• Special constructions: TrussMaker and RoofMaker.