ArchiCAD Tutorial | Creating Custom Symbols and 3D Objects (part 1 of 3)
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- www.acbestpractices.com - The first in a three part series on creating custom objects for the ArchiCAD library. (The second one may be viewed at • ArchiCAD Tutorial | Ma... - the third one will be posted next week.)
These tutorials are excerpted from my comprehensive ArchiCAD training resource, the Best Practices Course - www.acbestpractices.com
In this 16 minute video, we look at how to create a basic 2D symbol as well as a quick way to save a new 3D object. The basic process is simple: draw or model whatever you'd like to turn into an object, select these elements on the floor plan, then use the File menu - Libraries and Objects - Save Selection As - Object command and give the new object a name.
After a new object is created, it can be made more flexible by adding parameters and editing the GDL script to make it more parametric, allowing it to change with each instance or insertion into the project.
The hotspots or selection handles of new objects are created automatically by ArchiCAD, and by default will include the bounding box corners and geometric center of the element. To optimize these handles, simply draw in your own hotspots on the plan with the hotspot tool, then select these hotspots along with the 2D or 3D elements when you are creating the object.
When you have hotspots included in the selection, you may turn off the bounding box handles by unchecking the Details - Compatibility Options - Bounding Box Hotspots checkbox, then resaving the object. (Note: if you have an object already placed, you may not see the updated symbol until you refresh the view by zooming in or out.)
Great video, This is a subject I have struggled with before but your video's have explained this soo easily & in a very clear way. Well done . I will be watching more for sure!
Thank you very much for this training,
it's very clear, precise, and...free !
bravo !
thanks Eric
Great video - simply explained easy to follow
Thank you so much! I've been killing myself for several hours to find the way of adding additional hotspots to my object! And here it is in your tutorial!)))
Great presentation. Thanks Bob.
This is awesome
I posted a question about this on the Forums and now this video shows me exactly how to do what I wanted to do. Wish I knew the video existed before
Thanks Eric. This is a great topic for me as I want to customize my own electrical symbols library and schedule.
Like every time : very clear very simple to understand
Thanks a lot Eric
Christophe (France)
Great and useful Tutorial. Thank you.
Thank you for your time Eric
thanks a lot, it really helpful!
Another great tutorial......thanks so much!!
This is great to create my own section symbols. Thanks
God Bless you Eric...
good workl eric!!
can u made a tutorial about custom section markers?
Thank You For Tutorial.
Thank you Eric for your ""simple but into the point tutorials!... Your videos are really helpful and saved me too many times... I sketched a simple rectangle with a text inside but when I change the dimensions of the my object also distorts the text!....I wonder what I am doing wrong.... Your help would be precious to me.... Thank you in advance..
Hi Eric... nice presentation... very helpful..
Just wondering, if we work in teamwork, are these material can be locked so other team member can't make change of the material? thank you.
Best regards,
kevin
Parabéns muito bom o vídeo!
Awesome Eric! Thanks a lot!
I have a questionEric, is it posible to make the text in the object able to have free movement around the object?
Carlos - It is possible to make the text moveable, however it takes some very precise GDL coding to create the offset parameters and tie them into an editable / stretchable hotspot. I've done it on occasion, it always takes me a while to figure it out again from the manual, since I don't do it often.
Hi there Eric!
I am working in an Architectural firm that will soon switch to Archicad.
We are trying to figure out things before we start.
My question is this:
Let' assume you have the same window repeated 12 times on a building.
You create the window as an object and add it to the Library.
Then you place that object on the 12 different locations.
If for some reason we decide to change the window type
(let's assume that wall opening remains the same),
what is the way to change them all together?
Go to the library and change the saved object?
Will that change all the 12 windows?
Since this is something that often has to be done in projects, what is the procedure?
Have you done a tutorial about this subject?
Thank you in advance,
Antony
Eric is possible for ArchiCad to produce tensile fabric structure 3D modelling ... thanks
Thank you for your phantastic tutorial! god bless you.
Eric !!!! how creating a object with free rotate..... pleasssseeee
Eric
i found the error, it works to me when i place the parameter in the line below textblock!
yhea,, that`s the problem with use a morph, becouse if we save like a object, can`t use again like a free rotate.... PLEASEEEE, i would like you condider doing a tutorial..... and THKS SO MUCH.....
How do you create custom elevation symbols for gdl objects, as it doesn't look good in elevation but looks fine in plan view. Thanks
excuse me, but when i create the parameter of text and replace it in the script the scale not can be change any more, i have the archicad 15. thank you again
Hi
I am trying to create an object. My level is beginner so i am gonna need some help. how can i send you an image? to have an idea
Hello, my name is Kevin i am an Architecture studying, recently I've been using ARCHICAD 18 to make my college work, but i have a several problems and i don't find any answers on the web. I've been trying to change the settings of the "audience seats layout" from the object library but i cant change them at all, it always stay in the default setting no matter what i do, the only thing i can do is change the number of seats!! And the same thing happen with a lot of other things, like walls, i can't change them to "non-load bearing element or load-bearing element" they keep on "undefined" no matter how many times i change it they always go back to the default.. PLEASE HELP ME, i am so desperate...
+Eric Bobrow hey!! Thank you for your response. And yeah I basically have done everything, I select it, deselect i've done all i know.... It may be something basic but i really don't see it, I don't know if you're able to add me on Facebook, snapchat or something so i can show you pictures of what's going on with that, I need to solve this as soon as possible :'(
Archicad 17 GDL add new parts to intelligent GDL Objects:
following this tutorial of Eric Bobrows - and make one step further..:
Archicad 17 GDL add new parts to intelligent GDL Objects
Be sure to set the inserted original GDL-library-part exactly to the original zeropoint, before You make this..
a cuestion, i create the symbol but the text is too large, i don`t know why.. thank you