Archicad Tutorial #88: How to Measure a House with Archicad
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Most of my projects start with a house measure. I measure the house and build the Archicad model at the same time. This process takes one to three days on site. By the time I leave the client's house at the end of the measure my Archicad model is basically done and I'm more or less ready to start design. In this video I talk about this process, covering what I do both in and out of Archicad.
00:00 Intro (why I did this video)
01:52 Backup Strategy (why I can share all these files so easily)
02:38 Measure Day 0 (before I go to the site)
03:30 Measure Day 1 (interiors and overall structure)
15:31 Measure Day 2 (exteriors)
22:33 Measure Day 3 (back at the office finishing the site model)
24:40 Outro (why I build the Archicad model while I measure)
The original blog post this video is from has a bonus tip for doing existing conditions models:
www.shoegnome.com/2022/11/07/h...
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love your videos Jared.. very coherent and professional! spent about 3 hrs in the past 2 days watching and learning some new things. keep it up mate.
Joash, architect from Israel
Thank you. So glad the videos are helpful. I'm always looking for new video ideas, so if there's anything you'd like to learn more about, let me know. I'll hopefully have time soon to record and share new videos.
I also like to measure and model in great detail.
It makes everything that comes afterwards so much easier.
Excellent walk through. I totally agree with your process on reality vs. the model and all your tweaks to make it work for the project.
One suggestion - to quickly mass in the kitchen we use complex profile beams for base/island/bench, upper, and full height cabinets. Each are also on a different layer and the full height layer is set at a different intersection priority so it does not heal with the others. These preset complex profiles are easy to tweak or copy to have different cabinet conditions.
The only real model issue with this is the 'end' of the beam or end of a cabinet is all one surface, really just the countertop edge isn't shown with the correct material. We use this on all jobs where a client will be working closely with a builder and their cabinet supplier - we just have the appliances placed where we want them. A finished kitchen design can be done in 5 minutes this way. Works for existing conditions as well.
I've seen a few people do that cabinet solution. It's a good hack. I have used it myself on occasion. My cabinet favorites allow me to block in a kitchen super fast as well with the cabinet objects, and they don't need Layer shenanigans plus they can evolve with the project. I tend not to bother modeling most cabinets during measures though since kitchens typically get replaced/everything can be schematically modeled later from photos.
Doing quick kitchens with cabinet objects though is currently annoying because of the handle repositioning bug in 25 and 26. Hopefully that gets fixed in 27. It needs to be.
Hi Jared, I have been following you and looking at your work for some time now, thank you and keep going you are an inspiration to my journey from CAD to ArchiCAD. I am struggling with learning the working methods of using and thinking archicad as a tool to do an architectural refurb project. I know the process in CAD, but have been struggling for years now to transition to ArchiCAD. Your survey really helped, do you have working methods to do the full project? I have used another top archicad tutor but ultimately he is not a practicing architect, so the 'why and how' dont stack up! If I think like a drawing board 'CAD' how do i think like archiCAD 'BIM'? Im really trying to get of this addiction/habit of CAD. Your help is very much apprecitated.
Duncan, send me an email and let's chat. I'm out of the office for the rest of the year so my response time might be slow. But I'd be happy to discuss your struggles and see how we can get you over CAD and fully into BIM.
great explanation jared, can u please share the survey file...
Unfortunately it's not a file I can share.
Awesome video. Out of curiosity, how long did you spend measuring and modeling?
I have done this in the past and found this to be a great strategy to ensure things are modeled correctly. However, I have found it to be time-consuming up front, yes it saves time later, but I might not have the time now, or the client doesn't have the time to let us stay that long.
The whole measure was about 20 hours, including time before being on site and time wrapping up back in the office. Day 1 was about 9 hours on site and Day 2 was about 6. So 15(ish) hours at the house. It is a lot of time, but beyond worth it. It used to be that clients would let me in at the start of the day, go off to work, and then I'd lock up on my way out-or leave when they got home. Now there's usually someone working from home and I just stay out of their way. Honestly with people working from home, I get the impression they are happy to have someone around. Plus if they are home, we have a chance to talk more about the project and just general chitchat which helps future communication.
On bigger houses I'll be on site closer to 20-24 hours (two full 8 days plus a half day wrapping stuff up). But usually I can get things done in two long days, especially if I work at night or give myself a day in the office between to set up some heavier modeling stuff. If I can have a corner of the house sided and the attic measured on day one, I can model a lot of the exterior quickly in a few hours between measuring sessions.
@@Shoegnome Thank you for the thorough reply. Fascinating process that makes way too much sense.
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