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in how to use tools within archicad to model and illustrate thermal characteristics drainage planes air barriers and vapor retarders within building enclosures specific archicad concepts include building materials priority based connections composites custom profiles graphical overrides selection criteria and energy evaluation learning outcomes understand the basic principles of effective building enclosures in relation to thermal and moisture control establish priorities for the intersections of materials within the building enclosure identify and model the typical assemblies and intersections within the building enclosure demonstrate proper construction techniques in 3d using whole building models assembly sequences and cutaway details posted in archicad leave a reply i m back posted on august 7 2016 by ken huggins architect reply building enclosure modeling i m back with a new mission to marry my two biggest technical obsessions bim and building enclosure design call it building enclosure modeling which has just begun to emerge as a topic for building science and the aec industry tempus fugit a lot has changed in archicad we now capitalize the whole name there have been 4 upgrades some great new functionality has been added priority based connections building materials energy evaluation improvements 3d documents integrated cinerender engine tab based navigation graphical favorites and graphic overrides my old favorite the element id can now have 2 048 characters quite an improvement from 15 meaning more descriptive less cryptic naming all good i ve been busy especially with the building enclosure council i spent two years as vice chair and then two more as chair of the charleston chapter which included a stint on national building enclosure council board and national advisory board member for betec building enclosure technology environment council a unit the national institute for building sciences i ve met a lot of smart people i ve been to numbers of national conferences lots of exciting things going on i got jared banks whom you archicad probably know from shoegnome to come to charleston in 2014 as the featured speaker for the bim bang symposium co sponsored by our local building enclosure council and csi i ve appeared on a panels at graphisoft bim 2015 north america user conference and the aia 2016 national convention with jared and two other archicad power users patrick may and ken adler what s next so i m re engaging my blog with two renewed purposes first i m seeking to develop more rigorous methods of modeling effective building enclosures in general second i ll be developing content for two seminars i ve submitted which i hope to present at the graphisoft bim 2017 north america user conference and the aia 2017 national convention i ll be blogging on building science as well as bim but always with a focus on the building enclosure posted in archicad leave a reply seven simple layers posted on december 19 2012 by ken huggins architect 1 wonders of a virtual world so what can you do with just seven layers almost everything anyone ought to be doing with layers no matter how many yes i told you in the power of one that my standard template has twenty one layers but for now seven is enough to introduce the principles of my system take note visibility is king for all that functional tracking stuff see my earlier post stop worrying and learn to love the element id layer concept begin with the archicad layer and reserve it for layout elements reassign other elements such as those from schematic design elsewhere the remaining layers are derived from standard orthographic projections in plans the cutting plane segregates a building s components into three natural categories base elements which fall wholly below the cutting plane cut elements which intersect it and overhead elements which lie wholly above it typical elevations include plan elements plus additional wall mounted components like baseboard or trim that are too thin to show in a standard plan these components along with small elements one finds on an enlarged floor plan constitute the detail for our fifth layer typical sections include both plan and elevation elements plus additional components concealed within floor or ceiling assemblies which define our sixth layer see euler diagrams of combinations below regarding visibility we can manage with just six layers by combining model elements with text and other annotations until we include an enlarged plan why the text and other annotations we need for it will be superimposed on those for the floor plan when we set up the layer combinations so our seventh layer is reserved for text and other annotations needed for our base plans for the site floors and roof we ll find it s our preferred location for any text or other annotations we wish to add to any drawing except other modeled plan views layer combinations and layers layout archicad layer elevation archicad layer base cut detail overhead text plan archicad layer base cut text plan archicad layer base cut text plan enlarged archicad layer base cut detail plan interstitial archicad layer concealed cut plan rc electrical archicad layer cut overhead section archicad layer base concealed cut detail overhead text survey archicad layer xref modeled drawings and layer combinations site plan plan floor plan plan roof plan plan reflected ceiling electrical plan plan rc electrical interstitial plan plan interstitial enlarged finish floor plan plan enlarged elevation elevation section section interior elevation elevation 3d document depends on view survey survey tips and limitations place site elements on a separate story generally the lowest place electrical objects text and annotations on the overhead layer regardless of their relation to the cutting plane by default these will be visible on the reflected ceiling plan elements placed outside the 3d model like those on 2d worksheets or details cannot be used with interactive schedules lists photo rendering or energy evaluations use the interstitial plan to show concealed structural and or service components use object settings for 3d detail level and floor plan display to prevent modeled plants or furniture from appearing in 3d windows elevations or sections consider adding vegetation to elevations and sections as 2d annotations consider attaching a survey as an xref file which will add xref layers edit layer combinations as needed to show survey data in plan it s just xref layers who s counting provide unannotated presentation drawings by hiding the text layer provide other plan views using the 2d worksheet tool provide construction details using the 2d detail tool a practical limit for displaying modeled elements is around 1 16 3 4 1 0 screenshots layout elevation plan plan enlarged plan interstitial plan reflected ceiling electrical section survey posted in archicad bim tagged 3d document details elevations find and select interactive schedules layers plans sections 1 reply stop worrying and learn to love the element id posted on december 12 2012 by ken huggins architect 2 the element id is better in bim in archicad layers are good for no more than three things visibility control editing convenience and improved rendering speed remember revit gets by with none at all there are better ways to categorize data among archicad data fields the element id offers the broadest functionality to identify and group elements for interactive schedules lists find and select criteria sets and the ifc manager you can assign an element id to any construction tool object zone fill or grid element using up to 15 characters you can edit it in the tags and categories panel an interactive schedule or the element id manager you can even display it in plan with element label settings interactive schedules scheme settin gs are used to establish selection criteria for interactive schedules the element id field offers nine conditional functions greater than less than greater than or equal to less than or equal to starts with ends with contains is and is not other non numeric fields including layer offer two is or is not of course you re free to incorporate layers into the scheme settings but the element id obviously packs more punch from here it s just a matter of nomenclature find and select criteria sets consider a twist on a familiar tool using find and select you can create criteria sets to choose elements to display in the 3d window and hence in a 3d document the filtering logic is similar to interactive schedules so regardless of your layer strategy you can isolate a particular system or set of components in a 3d document you can even use 3d documents to create pseudo plan views elevations and sections unfortunately 3d documents must be updated manually the process is somewhat involved but once upon a time so were schedules and interior elevations so to incorporate new elements into a previously defined 3d document open the 3d document select open 3d source make sure all the needed layers are visible remember the power of one open find and select apply the appropriate criteria set select show selection marquee in the 3d window select redefine the 3d document make sure it s correct done or if you re not worried about preserving annotations from an earlier version just go straight to the 3d window and apply the criteria set to make a new 3d document nomenclature whether simple or complex you should be systematic about setting element id s you ll find the conditional functions starts with contains and ends with to be especially helpful in simple situations identify elements with prefixes like w for window and a numeral to indicate a unique instance or shared type such as w 07 in sophisticated situations adopt a standard like uniformat a fixed exterior window might be denoted as b2020 20 07 where 07 again refers to a particular instance or type in a hierarchical system like uniformat the criterion element id starts with b20 would select that window and all other exterior vertical enclosure elements ifc attributes if you re into exchanging files the ifc element name is the archicad element id and it s set by the archicad user ifc also uses two unique identifiers set by the system the globalid the globally unique identifier in the ifc model and the tag the archicad guid which differs from the ifc globalid the take away manage drawings with layers and data with element id s so changes to one shouldn t screw up the other use no more layers than the drawings require geometry first data later connections follow additional commentary at linkedin archicad posted in archicad bim ifc tagged 3d document find and select interactive schedules layers lists uniformat 2 replies has chrome lost a little shine aside has chrome lost a little shine recently i began using google chrome instead of safari as my default browser chrome has much better diagnostics for web developers so i m more than a little surprised that it displays a blank page when i use it to open archicad help safari works fine so does firefox hmmm posted on december 9 2012 by ken huggins architect tagged google chrome 2 replies the power of one posted on december 7 2012 by ken huggins architect 5 how many layers do you really need last month in the linkedin archicad group timothy bal l started a discussion entitled generating correctly named layers uk which got me thinking again about layers he advocated naming layers according to uniclass a uk industry standard comparable to csi s uniformat in the us in my quest for interoperability i once used uniformat as the basis of my own layering system however it proved to be impractical given the large number of layers used and to be incomplete given the small number of categories accommodated even with 287 layers it accommodated only 23 categories of building elements after factoring in related layers to coordinate element display with renovation status separate projections and annotations a pitiful outcome compared to 612 similar categories in uniformat 2010 then graphisoft introduced the renovation filter which helped a bit but after reading john maeda s laws of simplicity the realization hit me the best use for layers in archicad was to provide a filter of last resort for controlling elements in 2d projections of the model i e plans elevations and sections that insight reduced my template to 21 layers so what can you do with just one layer the mandatory always on archicad layer start simple using only the archicad layer layer combinations are useless for controlling elements in 2d projections but archicad 16 provides other tools for this purpose such as story settings individual element settings including sections and elevations and archicad s other built in document filters model view options renovation filter options partial structure display pen sets and floor plan cut planes the available model output is enough for schematic design in general and even construction documents on a simple project although you might need a couple 2d worksheets for the electrical plans site plan floor plans roof plan interstitial plans with a few caveats elevations sections interior elevations 3d documents schedules and lists when annotation requirements are minimal interstitial plans showing concealed structural and or mechanical elements can be modeled using the model view options to render the floor slabs transparent and the partial structure display to hide non load bearing elements alternatively 3d documents can be used to create similar drawings from the model regardless of annotation requirements otherwise draw other plans and details independently of the model using the 2d worksheet and detail tools here are some tips and limitations place site elements on a separate story display overhead objects as dashed elements on the floor plan model elements and annotations share the same layer 3d elements shown in elevation and or section also appear in plan subject to partial structure display settings 2d elements may be added in one view without appearing in others only modeled elements can appear in schedules or lists which excludes 2d objects inserted into elevations sections worksheets or details visual conflicts will likely arise in trying to model electrical fixtures in plan without additional layers which will prevent creating an electrical fixture schedule from the model to control where objects such as trees and furniture appear pay special attention within object settings to the 3d detail level and floor plan display objects appearing in the 3d window and hence 3d documents may be selected individually and or by using the find select tool rules for selection criteria can be created edited and named for future use but updates must be performed manually multiply your power alternates to explore alternate schemes add one layer and one layer combination for each alternate and restrict the archicad 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