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Book Description
Architects, building industry professionals and architecture students who use ArchiCAD will discover throughout this book the potential and power of the calculation functions of ArchiCAD.
After explaining the notions and basis of quantity survey in ArchiCAD, the author then explains step by step, and with a concrete example, how to create a book and specification data base, how to transfer an existing data base, how to configure tools and properties, how to link it all through GDL scripts in order to generate a price list, a quantity estimate, an estimate or a summary description from your 3D model.
You will familiarize yourself with the strengths of the ArchiCAD quantity survey, such as the keys, components, specifications, properties, criteria and lists.
Well documented and widely illustrated, this study will become your benchmark encyclopaedia, thanks to its index and detailed table of contents.
Book examples as well as the supplied files are realized with ArchiCAD 9. The procedures are identical if you possess ArchiCAD 7, 8 or 10.
About the Author
ArchiCADuser of the first hour, Webmaster of the francophone ArchiCAD users FC-Cadlink website (www.fc-cadlink.com), Eric Wilk is also a service provider, trainer and consultant for architecture firms.
Table of contents
- 1-Introduction
- 2-The various stages in the production of a summary description, of a quantity estimate and of an estimate in ArchiCAD
- 3-Creation of the database
- 4-Creation of the properties
- 5-Individual assignment of the properties
- 6-Automatic assignment of the properties
- 7-Creation of a property in a program library object
- 8-Creation of components in a program library object with a GDL script
- 9-Link of a database component in a program library object with a GDL script
- 10-The summary description
- 11-Summary
- 12-The lists
- 13-Which list to use, or which list to create?
- 14-How to produce a proper quantity survey?
- 15-Analysis of the database “components”
- 16-Creation of the object comprising the manual settings
- 17-Creation of the property “wall”
- 18-Creation of the object “wall end"
- 19-Creation of the property “column”
- 20-Creation of the property “beam”
- 21-Creation of the property “slab”
- 22-Creation of the properties Roofmaker
- 23-Creation of the property “roof”
- 24-Creation of the property "fill"
- 25-Creation of the library elements “window”
- 26-Creation of the library elements “door”
- 27-Creation of the library elements skylight”
- 28-Creation of the library elements “objects”
- 29-Creation of the library elements “stair”
- 30 - Creation of a zone
- 31 - Use and modification of the bill of quantities
- Appendix 1 – Syntax of the List Templates
- Appendix 2 – Syntax of the main GDL functions used in this book
- Appendix 3 – The list global variables
Product Details
- Paperback: 352pages
- Publisher: FC-CadLink (Jan 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN 13: 978-2-9527670-1-9
- Dimensions (in cm): 16 X 2 X 24
