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 tutorial is intended to support your early ArchiCAD experiences.
 

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• 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.