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- [Instructor] All right, so we discussed the contour

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and now let's talk about the beam tool.

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I am going to change this column.

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I'm just going to delete that one

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and that's why we just previously placed.

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I'm just going to drag this one

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and

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push alt

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and it'll drag a copy of it.

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Just so we have consistency

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with the other columns that we replaced.

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So now

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we're going

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to place a column.

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And so again,

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you have the option to click on that little flyout button

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and you have some predefined beams.

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And if we double click into this tool,

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we can see that it has a similar dialogue box

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that the

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column tool has.

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And so again

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we have the ability to adjust the height of it,

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we have the ability to adjust the width of it

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and then the position,

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so the height above ground,

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what storey it's going to be on

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and we also have the ability to adjust the edges,

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the reference position

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and

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we can adjust

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the surfaces.

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So just to be consistent

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we're going to make this a wood structural element

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instead of a concrete element.

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We're going to make it about

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a five and a half

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inch

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column.

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And then we are going to link that

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so that it's a square column there.

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We also have the ability to insert holes through this beam.

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So that could be useful if you are doing a more industrial

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or commercial project.

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You can add

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holes for mechanical systems

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that might be penetrating these

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beams.

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And so

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just to go back there.

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So make it a five and a half inch by five and a half inch

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and then we're going to just change this to wood.

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We're not going to add any holes to it.

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And again, we also have this new option

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which is the cover fills.

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So if you wanted

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to add

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some random fill across it

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you can see that it's changing what that surface looks like.

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And so we're just going to leave it a background fill

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and I think those are all the changes

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that we're going to make here.

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And so we're going to just say, okay

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and so we're going to start placing this.

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So let's

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start here.

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And we're just going to drag it to the end point, all right.

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So there we have our beam

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and so let's look at that in 3D.

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So I'm going to get Marquee tool

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and

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we'll just look at that piece there.

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And I'm just going to show selection Marquee in 3D.

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So you can see we have placed that beam

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and it looks pretty good.

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It's going over the top of those columns.

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So let's just isolate this and show one other thing.

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That's new

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with

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ArchiCAD 23.

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So one thing I could do is

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I can click on this reference sign here

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and it's going to give me some new options,

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so I can segment it,

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I can insert a hole,

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I can actually convert it to a curve

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and then I can also curve it

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in a few different other ways

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or just

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create a new segment.

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So let's just try this curve piece.

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So if I wanted to curve that I could just do that.

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And now I have a curved beam

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and

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that's a unique feature

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with ArchiCAD 23.

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And so let's look at the other options here.

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So if I click on that reference line

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which is that blue line, I can add that segment.

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So you can see there is a new segment there

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and then I can adjust the edges

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differently from the rest of it.

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So you can

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rotate it.

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You'd see it starting to

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cut that

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beam.

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And so those were kind of the new features with ArchiCAD 23.

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It's really exciting to be able to modify

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beams in a unique way.

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And so you also have this edit function

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which is similar to what the column offered.

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So just separating the two pieces

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and I can adjust them

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and modify

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those pieces

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in kind of a unique way.

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Definitely a very exciting tool

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and it's going to allow a lot more accuracy

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in your modeling and design development exercises.