Discover Smart BIM: An Interactive Guide to ArchiCAD is graphically intensive book providing visual and written instructions for each stage of the Virtual Building™ process covering the most important points such as modelling, visualisation, detailing, scheduling and documentation.

A typical user would fall in to one of the following categories:

- An evaluator contemplating migrating to BIM
- Teachers, lecturers and students
- Commercial ArchiCAD users



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The book includes:

Creating a Virtual Building™
The early stages of the book concentrate on creating a ‘Virtual Building™’ including slabs, walls, stories, doors and windows, stairs and furniture objects.

Defining Room Usage and Spaces
Learn how to use Zones to assist with facilities management and scheduling.

Measuring and Scheduling the Building
Working with the Interactive Scheduler on components from the Virtual Building™.

Rendering the Model
The process of creating images from the integrated rendering engines.

Creating a 2D Detail Drawing
This sections describes in detail the process of creating a traditional detailed drawing.

Creating a 3D Document
This explores a document type that can help communicate details and components clearly.

The Layout Book
This section of the book brings together the various types of drawings and images produced within the previous chapters to create a set of documentation.

Sample Images generated from ArchiCAD Models
A range of images rendered in various styles and from a range of project types… from the building created within this book to larger developments.

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