ArchiCAD Books :
ArchiCAD for AutoCAD users
by Grabowski, Langdon
How to get started quickly and easily, how to leverage what you know of AutoCAD to quickly become an ArchiCAD wizard, the equivalents of "polyline", "offset", "trim", "paperspace" and much more, how to create custom library part windows, step by step tutorials.
published by Graphisoft Inc.
Available from :
http://www.intcad.com
Graphisoft -- free download
http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/pdf/ac4cadm.pdf
Object Making with ArchiCAD, written by leading GDL expert David Nicholson-Cole
Object Making with ArchiCAD is designed to help users get more enjoyment and productivity from ArchiCAD. This volume offers an easy-to-follow route that leads from tool using to object making with Graphisoft's Geometric Description Language (GDL). This opens up a new world of opportunity for each user as they find practical uses for GDL and realize that it is easier than they thought. Before you know it, you, too, will be able to tackle GDL.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9630037262/architecturalcad
ArchiCAD 6.5 Step by Step
The ArchiCAD 6.5 Step by Step is a book Demo CD combo providing an overview of concepts, tools and building creation techniques in ArchiCAD. The CD is multi-platform (Mac/Win) and contains a demo version of ArchiCAD 6.5 (print and save disabled) and a series of exercises for the beginning ArchiCAD user. Availability: Usually ships the next business day.
Regular price: $30.00 ----- ICS Sale price: $25.00
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Object Making with ArchiCAD
ArchiCAD fully exemplifies the concept of the 'Virtual Building' - elevate the building in three dimensions; view it in 3D; then extract 2D plans, sections, elevations and factual data about the building. The architect is able to maintain a comprehensive awarenesss of the whole design task. Buildings are made of objects; they also contain objects. Object Making with ArchiCAD is designed to help users get more enjoyment and productivity from ArchiCAD.
In this volume, ArchiCAD users have an easy-to-follow route that leads from tool using to object making with Graphisoft's Geometric Description Language (GDL). This opens up a new world of opportunity for each user as they find practical uses for GDL and realize that it is easier than they thought. Before you know it, you, too, will be able to tackle GDL.
About the Author
David Nicholson-Cole is an architect and teaches at Nottingham University in the UK. He has been an enthusiastic evangelist for GDL and a busy producer of GDL objects since discovering the power (and the pleasure) of GDL. He is the author of the GDL Cookbook, which logically follows after this book. David has also traveled around the globe at the invitation of ArchiCAD dealers and their customers, teaching GDL.
Try "The GDL Cookbook" by David also!
Availability: Usually ships the next business day.
$25.00
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GDL Cookbook II
If you are:
- purchaser of ArchiCAD looking to maximize your investment.
· An employer wanting to raise the skills level of your staff.
· An employee looking to move up the career ladder.
· A designer determined to improve the elegance and quality of your work and go far beyond architecture.
· A component designer wanting to codify your range of products into smart, parametric 3D form.
· A Student looking to achieve design miracles (the impossible takes a little longer!)
· Teachers of ArchiCAD who need the ultimate workbook.
Then the GDL Cookbook is the book for you!
By a combination of explanation, illustration and project-based practical exercises, the author takes you progressively through the maze of GDL in an easy and enjoyable way that is guaranteed to enhance your productivity and creativity with ArchiCAD. That is why the GDL Cookbook is acclaimed by Graphisoft and by its readers as the world book on GDL. Hundreds of users have discovered that the GDL Cookbook can provide them with a lifechanging skill. The book covers GDL for ArchiCADs 5.0, 6.0 and 6.5. The book is worth getting just because of some of the items supplied on the CD!
The GDL Cookbook II-sale price Regular price: $39.00 ---- ICS Sale price: $25.00
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GDL Cookbook 3
By a combination of explanation, illustration and project-based practical exercises, the author takes you progressively through the maze of GDL in an easy and enjoyable way that is guaranteed to enhance your productivity and creativity with ArchiCAD. That is why the GDL Cookbook is acclaimed by Graphisoft and by its readers as the world book on GDL. Hundreds of users have discovered that the GDL Cookbook can provide them with a life-changing skill. The book covers GDL for ArchiCAD's 5.0, 6.0 and 6.5. All the excercises in the book are supplied on the accompanying CD! The 3rd edition of this book builds on the previous 2 editions making it more of a compendium at the center of GDL. Rewriting and many additions have been made giving this edition almost twice as much content (310 pages) as the 2nd edition.
GDL Cookbook 3 $45.00
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ArchiCAD 6.5 Training Guide
The ArchiCAD 6.0 Training Guide is one of the most useful tools for in depth learning of ArchiCAD-even for 6.5 users! 23 step-bystep exercises take you thru the capabilities of ArchiCAD with special attention paid to 3D editing techniques. Although geared towards the beginner, even the power user will find this 297 page book useful. Last printing-only a few left!
Author: L. Kulislev Published by Graphisoft
Regular price: $35.00 ---- ICS Sale price: $25.00
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The Project Framework - manual & companion CD-ROM:
The ArchiCAD Project Framework provides a documented structure to be used mainly by new users of ArchiCAD, to guide them through the design and documentation of a building. The emphasis of the Framework is on simple concepts and methods to organize an ArchiCAD Project from the construction of the model to the production of construction documents. The document is accompanied by Tip Sheets and ArchiCAD reference projects.
Based on his experience with the practical side of architecture, Bill Rattenbury created this guide in cooperation with CADImage Solutions. The ArchiCAD Project Framework is published on a hybrid CD-ROM and a 124-page manual.
Project Framework Book & CD-New version! $65.00
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