Archicad Tutorial #97: Design Options in Archicad, Part 2 (Templates & Design Option Examples)
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Let's look at Design Options on an active project, and how Design Options can improve the organization of a template. In the accompanying blog post for this video I talk about a number of additional items that relate to Design Options and templates. I highly recommend you head over and read that additional information:
shoegnome.com/2024/02/19/desi...
If you haven't already watched part one of this video series, I recommend you start there: • Archicad Tutorial #96:...
00:00 Intro and recap of Part 1
01:12 Design Option Combinations & Views and using a default Design Option Combination for all views
05:08 Paddle Board Tangent
05:55 Design Option Combinations and Schedules
07:25 Design Option Examples (both big and small)
10:10 Notes Design Option
11:18 Object Creation Primitives Design Option
12:43 As Built Reference Design Option
13:57 Recap, additional ideas, and outro
This video was created using the Shoegnome Open Template and the Shoegnome Work Environment for Archicad 27. Links below:
www.shoegnome.com/template/
www.shoegnome.com/work-environ...
As always the template and work environment are free; a good Archicad template (and work environment) is too important to horde. If you want to click the PayPal button on the template or work environment pages to support my endeavors and encourage future development, that's wonderful. Whenever people do that, it makes my day.
Thank you - the "proposed scheme" concept is brilliant. Random question - what are you using to mark up the screen during presentations (ie: blue marker to circle where the paddle boards would be)?
It's a small app called Presentify. It's maybe $5, allows me to hit Ctrl+A to start drawing over anywhere on the screen at any time, and is the best little app ever. I can't recommend it enough. It also has a cursor highlight feature which I rarely use. I'll scribble over the screen during a meeting then screenshot what I drew before hitting escape to make the drawings go away.
And yes, proposed scheme is an absolute must.
Is there a way to have Design Options Combinations available to swap without opening the design options manager? It would be handy to quickly switch between combos.
You can switch between Design Option Combinations view the Quick Options Bar or Palette, by switching between saved Views, or (in my Work Environment) I have a drop-down that also allows me to switch between combos.
If you want to turn on/off individual Options though, you either need to open Design Options Manager or click on what you want in the Design Option Palette.
I tend to turn on/off the D.O. Palette with a keyboard shortcuts to change what's visible or use the quick options palette to switch between combos.
I've used that grid concept forever! :) It's OK when used in 2d but, when working in 3d it adds so much bloat to the model (and can cause other issues).
Very helpful video. I've downloaded your 27 template and started to incorporate my template into it. It takes me a day or two to do it for each new release or Archicad. I wish there was a quicker way to combine them - kind of like an import favorites file. I've followed your video on how to incorporate new changes but, as the year goes on my file size get much larger. Especially because I usually just copy from one project to the next in lieu of updating a separate template file. This way all of the changes that I make are automatically incorporated into my next project.
When you update the template to add the design options - is that something that is easy to transfer into an existing template?
When it's time to incorporate design options, it'll be quite fast just to create the ones you want and update the view map by selecting all the views at once and changing their d.o. combination to proposed scheme.
One thing I don't mention in the videos is that when copying between files, elements bring their design option with them. So one way to populate a file with D.O. is to copy elements in..but that'd be slower and more of a hassle than spending 10 minutes to create them.
And totally agree. The grid with 3D gets so cumbersome, especially when you're trying to design multiple stories at once. That's the real game changer. Being able to shuffle between and compare/mix different schemes on different stories.
I haven't looked to see if there's any import/export feature for design options. I don't think so.
That makes sense. I'm going to mimic your setup in the video and use that in my first V27 template as a starting point. I want to start using Design Options ASAP. It will make my workflow much more fluid.
Good to know about them bringing the DO name along with them. I'd guess there may be some issues with hidden objects or artifacts bringing that info along into new files - but, that will remain to be seen. Does this occur or cause issues with favorites as well? @@Shoegnome
No issues with favorites because design options aren't saved with favorites. I don't have all my standard design options set up yet, so we'll all be exploring for a version or two while we collectively figure out what are the right D.O. to have and use. I'm definitely still experimenting project to project.
2d lineworks' place is on a worksheet, at the right position (not far away in the floorplan) - it's a way more easier to use it with tracing. and actually, why using 2d linework, if you can adjust dimensions and do sketches right with the 3d elements themself.
of course it's easy to make those lines to disappear with options...
I like the 2D linework as reference for as builts because there are often slight adjustments between the original measurements and the final model. So those static lines are the raw data. A 2D worksheet would definitely work just as well for storing the linework. Although with a Design Option, that information can live in its original location on every viewpoint and story.
Does anybody else have an issue with archicad crashing when you duplicate a design option?
Update to the latest version of Archicad 27. That fixed a bug where duplicating a Design Option with dimensions crashed Archicad.