![]() ![]() ![]() Videos are great because you get to watch someone work. GRAPHISOFT has a lot of videos and as of late 2022 the Shoegnome YouTube channel has around ninety videos. There are so many Archicad videos on YouTube. Remember your first project isn’t going to take advantage of every aspect of Archicad. Show it to an Archicad expert and ask if they think it’d be a good one to start with. When choosing your first project, go with something comfortable and known. I once had a boss decide (against my advice) that a coworker’s first Archicad project would be one with a ruled surface roof and columns that were debarked trees the timber framer found while walking through the forest. The project should be on the less complex end of your standard work. If you do tenant build-outs, it should be one of those, not the pro-Bono work you agreed to do for a former client. If you do houses, it should be a house, not the random dentist’s office someone asked you to design. You’ll come across the challenges you need Archicad to be able to solve. By recreating a project that is prototypical for your office, you’ll be focusing on what you actually need to learn and do. The building should be a typical project for your firm. Whether you rebuild an old project or start a new one, choose your first project wisely. ![]() You therefore get to focus on how to work within Archicad. With an old project you aren’t thinking about the design or the details. Take an old project and redo it in Archicad. If you want to learn one of those other BIM programs, read on and just mentally replace Archicad with Revit, Vectorworks, or whatever software you’ve mistakenly choosen over Archicad. In an effort to save everyone some time, here’s a list of things you should do if you want to learn Archicad (after of course downloading the free trial version, if you don’t already own Archicad). But I don’t remember everything I’ve written, and I don’t expect you to either. If you’ve read anything I’ve written since 2010, you’ve probably come across much of this advice. “ I want to learn Archicad… what should I do?” I get this question ALL the time. ![]()
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