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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Quickstart to ArchiCAD 1.4 - Guides, Snaps, And Grids

Understanding the subtleties of snapping and guides will dramatically improve your productivity and it will make it easier for you to use ArchiCAD. This movie explains how to use guides, snaps, and grids.

Quickstart to ArchiCAD Part 1.3 - Tools and Commands in Detail

This movie explains many of the tools and concepts for creating and editing in ArchiCAD. This movie uses an exercise file that you will need if you want to carry out the exercises as well. Download the file from this link:
exercise files


Quickstart to ArchiCAD Part 1.2 - ArchiCAD Interface

This movie explains the ArchiCAD interface.

Quickstart to ArchiCAD Part 1.1 - Selecting and Deselecting

This movie covers the basics of selecting and deselecting. Selection is an important concept to learn early, so I'm covering it first.



Monday, January 21, 2019

Quickstart to Vectorworks Part 3

This movie carries on from part 2. In this movie you will learn model a house again. We will also cover lighting, textures, and rendering.


Quickstart to Vectorworks Part 2

This movie carries on from part 1. In this movie you will learn how to model a house. We will use the snapping that we learned about in Part 1, we will use the Push/Pull tool and learn about other 3D tools.



Getting Started with Vectorworks - Part 1

This movie, for Vectorworks 2019 is the first in a series of movies to show how to get started quickly in 3D. In this movie you will learn how to set your units, page size, 3D view, and how to model a house. You will learn about snapping, 3D viewing, how it use basic tools such as the Rectangle, Circle, and Push/Pull tools.