I’m an independent Software Engineer and Mathematician. My main focus is on developing Add-Ons for Archicad. I develop custom software for clients as well as software which I offer on this site.
Clients
How to Use Automatic Zones When There's no Continuous Boundary
How to Use the Wand Tool for Wall Coverings
If you decide to draw separate walls for your wall coverings, you might wonder how to draft these efficiently. Of course you can trace the outline of the “naked” walls manually, but this feels like you are back in AutoCAD again. And then there’s still the problem of needing empty door and window holes in the new finishes. Do you really have to setup each of them manually?
[Read More]How to Setup a Profile Modifier for Finish Heights
One way to create flexible finishes for walls is to use complex profiles with modifiers. Variable finish heights and thickness are both possible but setting up the profile modifiers in Archicad can be daunting at first. And maybe you’ve been burnt before by such modifiers with inexplicable behavior. There are 4 different types of offset modifiers and it’s important to catch the correct type. It took me a few tries to get it right even for the easy case of flexible finish heights, so here’s a detailed step-by-step guide for you and past me ;)
[Read More]Ortho Tool
Align and orthogonalize walls and beams to the current view angle
if they are within a given tolerance.
Room Coverings
Automatically create coverings modeled as native Archicad walls.
[Read More]Interior Wizard Add-On Usage & Comparison
The interior wizard (part of the Archicad Goodies Add-Ons) is sometimes recommended for wall finishes. So I wanted to check it out, since my Room Coverings Add-On tries to solve the same problem.
[Read More]MVO Properties Label
How to Get Room Areas With and Without Plaster Reduction Using the Room-Coverings Add-On
There is no easy, out of the box way to get zone areas both with and without plaster area in Archicad. You could achieve it by modeling the plaster walls as separate simple walls and setting them up to reduce the room area. But to model all plaster manually instead of using composite materials is horrible! With the Room Coverings Add-On you can automate a big chunk of that modeling work. In this post I’ll demonstrate how to use the Add-On to model the separate plaster walls automatically and how to get the room area with and without the subtraction of the plaster area.
[Read More]How to Use Superscript or Subscript in Archicad Properties
There are no direct text formatting options in Archicad properties. Which makes sense, since properties are more about information and data than its presentation. But it’s an issue when properly setting e.g. fire codes as asked in this question in the Graphisoft Community.
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