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- [Instructor] The column tool has changed

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a little bit in Archicad 23.

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Click on this little arrow here and open up your favorites.

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If you predefined some favorites, you'll find them here

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but we don't have any predefined.

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So let's just double click into the column settings.

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What we're going to do is we're going to make it

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a 5 1/2 inch by 5 1/2 inch column.

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We do want it to be

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from the first story to the second story,

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that makes sense.

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We could also adjust the angle of the column.

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We can also adjust the ends.

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So if the end of the column was 45 degrees

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or something of that nature, you can see up here

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that it's adjusted the tip of that column.

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You can also do that for the base.

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And then we can also adjust where we place it.

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This little diagram here shows

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that when we place the column

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it's going to be at the center.

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And we'll go over that a little bit more

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as we place this column.

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And then we have the layers.

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We can also adjust the structure of the column,

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circular or the complex profile.

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So this is going to be a wood column.

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So let's just go down and make it a wood structural member.

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And then we also have the ability to give it a cover fill.

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We would be able to adjust

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how that column is going to be shown in plan view

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or in elevation.

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I'm not going to use a cover fill

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so I'm just going to use a background fill.

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I think those settings are okay.

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So I know some columns are going along this edge

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of this concrete.

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The first column is going to start

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basically at the face of this wall.

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And I'm going to change where that column is being placed.

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So let me just show you an example

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of what is a typical placement.

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So that's the center and I want it to the face.

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So I'm just going to go back one.

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So Command+Z or Control+Z.

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And I'm going to change this orientation here

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and so I'm going to put it at the top right.

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So if I place that now, now it's at the top right.

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I am also going to array this.

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So if I go into my dialogue box here

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and I'm just going to spread them about eight feet apart.

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And so I drag that along the edge

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of that concrete sidewalk there

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and I'm going to place those columns there.

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And I know that there's actually two columns here

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so I'm going to just change this,

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so I'm going to move one up and move one down as a copy.

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So I'm just pushing control and clicking.

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So now I have those two columns there.

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So let's look at this in 3D.

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So I'm just going to use my marquee tool

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and the thick marquee is okay.

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So let's just look at that.

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So now I can right click in here and show selection in 3D.

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And so you can see I've placed those columns there

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and then they have that wood surface.

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One thing I'm noticing is that those columns

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might not be just touching the top of that sidewalk here.

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So I might want to drop them down a little bit.

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So what I can do is go to column tool

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and just push command or Control+A,

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and it'll select all the columns

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that are in this marquee area.

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So with that, I think I'm going to drop them

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down about a foot.

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Keep the top height where it is.

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And so I'm going to go here

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and I'm just going to push negative one.

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And you can see it's dropped the bottom part

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of those columns down a foot.

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So let's look at this column a little bit more detailed.

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So we have this column and I'm just going to isolate this.

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So we have this ability to stretch it this way.

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We also have the ability to stretch it

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this other different direction.

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And we also can break this little line here.

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So what I've done is grabbed the reference line.

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And so if I do it again, I grab that reference line,

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it gives me this option to break that column apart.

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And with that, I can push this edit button,

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click on individual pieces of the column

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and I can stretch them if I wanted to.

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I can also adjust the top angle.

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So there's a lot of different options here.

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So this is rotating the angle of those two pieces there.

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And it might be a little bit easier if you're adjusting this

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to adjust, so we're going to just exit this mode

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so I've just pressed escape a couple of times,

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and I'm just going to adjust this placement

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or where the reference line is.

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And you could see how it changes

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how that column is functioning.

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So there's a couple of different options

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within this column tool that are new within Archicad 23

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that allow you to give it a little bit more flexibility

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in what that column is.

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And as you can see, there's a lot of different options

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of what you could do with this column as you break it apart.

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So the column tool has become a little bit more advanced

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than it wasn't previous versions of Archicad

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but this is going to allow you to be able

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to do a lot more with this column tool.