Professor Geoffrey Moore Langdon

Nantucket Community Schools

Introduction, Overview, Hands on Tutorial - Quick Room, First House,
Sections, Perspectives

Time Schedule

9:00-9:15  Introductions, Outline of the course(s)

9:15 -10:45  Overview of ArchiCAD as a tool for Building Designers

10:45-11:00  Break

11:00-12:15  Learning the ArchiCAD Conceptual Approach

12:15-1:00  Break   (sign up period for the comprehensive course (for those who signed up for overview only))

1:00 - 1:30  Tutorial Course Begins -  review of how and where to get the needed software (and special deals from ICS), survey of attendees
to customize the course, overview of classroom hardware and help on installing the software for practice and homework

1:30 - 2:00  Modeling a Simple Space

2:00 - 2:45   Quick House

2:45-3:00   Break

3:00-3:20   Short Cuts, Tricks, and Design Techniques

3:20 - 3:40   Views of the Quick House

3:40-4:00   Questions and Answers

1.   Learning the ArchiCAD Conceptual Approach
     Drawing -   Hands on Play

     New and reset

Drawing and Modeling Entities
a.   Walls - Windows - Doors
b.   Modes - The unique key to ArchiCAD - the ToolBar modes
c.   Objects
d.   Lines, circles/arcs

Viewing and Editing
e.   Views 1  -- zoom, pan, 3D Window, dynamically rotating axonometric view
f.   Dynamic Move-Drag-Stretch
g.   Erase
h.   Methods of Selecting -  arrow tool click vs shift-click
i.   Copy, Drag

Drafting Aids
j.   Line Constraints - Ortho (shift while drawing)
k.   Automatic snaps to points
l.   Views 2  -- image - 3D projection settings, perspective, elevation
m.   Ctrl-Click Trim
n.   Snap Grids
 

2.   Modeling a Simple Space
     Drawing -   Quick room

a.   New and Reset
b.   Relative Coordinates
c.   Placing walls, windows, doors
d.   Placing and Rotating Furniture
e.   Multi purpose shift key (ortho, select add)
f.   Lines/Walls Options - single, continuous, rectangle
g.   Circles and Curves Options
 

3.   Quick House
     Drawing -   Quick House

     New and Reset

a.   Drawing Walls
b.   Typing Distances
c.   Parametric objects -  and how to change their parameters
d.   Door settings
e.   Windows settings
f.   Wall settings
g.   Wall Cleanup Issues  (rebuild, stretch/trim/extend, reference line side)
 

4.   Short Cuts, Tricks, and Design Techniques

a.   Ctrl-Click Extend
b.   Multi purpose Ctrl key  (even works in 3D space)
c.   Fills
d.   Space-Click  autotrace
e.   Stretching/Curving Fills with the pet pallate
f.   Settings Set and Transfer  (Alt-Click, Alt-Ctrl-Click)
g.   Instant automatic roof
 

5.   Views of the Quick House

a.   Sections
b.   Elevations
c.   Perspectives