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- [Instructor] All right, one of the key components

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of ArchiCAD is the representation of information

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in a way that we can look at something in floor plan

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as well as in a three-dimensional kind of environment.

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And if you go over to your toolbox,

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you'll see this little chair

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and that's where the objects are stored.

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So if you double-click on that,

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you'll have a library.

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And this contains both three-dimensional information

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but also two dimensional information.

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And it's organized

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by the Construction Specification Institute sorting.

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So the numbers here are reflective of CSI.

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So right now we have a toilet selected.

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So let's look at some furnishings.

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So let's look at furniture.

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So you can see that there's quite a lot

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of really basic elements that are within this.

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So let's just go to residential furniture.

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As you can see, looks like six beds.

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So let's choose a double bed.

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And you can see this is the double bed

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and I can also look at it in 3D.

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So I can see what it looks like in 3D.

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See what it looks like when it's rendered.

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And then I could see what it looks like in elevation.

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So if I want to make some changes to this.

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I go to those custom settings.

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I can also adjust the width and the length of the bed.

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I can adjust the elevation of the bed

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as it relates to our Project Zero

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or again, any of the different datum points

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that we have for elevations.

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So if I go to custom settings,

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and I can change the headboard

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and make any of the adjustments.

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I can give it some legs and I can change the type of legs.

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So you can quickly get a good representation

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of what your object looks like

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and that will help you delineate

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what you're trying to express on your drawings.

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Let's just place one of these beds

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and just like everything else,

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there's the way you can adjust the line types

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and the fills that are associated with it.

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So you get the right representation in two dimensions

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and you can also override the surfaces.

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It's going to A fixtures.

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Let's change that and let's go to A furniture

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and let's just place this.

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So we'll place it out here for now

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and then let's just look at that.

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So if we go to,

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if we just right click,

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we can scroll down and we have some options here

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

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And I'm going to push this little fit to window

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and you can push O to orbit

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and then you can kind of fly around

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and see what this looks like.

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So let's make a couple more changes to this,

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just to get an idea of what its capabilities are.

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So maybe I want to change that headboard or the legs.

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Maybe I want to change that style.

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And I want to change the leg maybe something like this.

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And so we can look at that

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and you can see it updates that right away.

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Let's place another object.

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And let's go to the settings.

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So I just drag with control and it gave me a duplicate.

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So let's look at something else.

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Let's go to plumbing and look at those toilets.

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So we have a couple of basic toilets

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so we'll just place a basic toilet.

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So I'm not going to make any adjustments to this

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but there are a number of adjustments that you can make.

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And you can see all the parameters

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and things that are adjustable within this,

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and color of the material or the surface.

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And so let's just say OK.

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And so there we go.

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We have a toilet.

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And so because these objects are parametric

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they will show up both in 3D and 2D as well as elevation.

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If we go back to the objects,

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there are a lot of different objects

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that you can start to manipulate

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and place into your projects

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to help give it a more realistic view.

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One thing I want to show you though within the objects

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is that there's this button at the bottom.

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And if you click on this,

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you can create your own object.

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You can go to the BIM Components Portal.

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And so let's just open that.

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So on Graphisoft's website they have different objects

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and you can download this.

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So you can go to this object and you could say

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I want to put this into my project

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and you can download more specific objects

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that you might not find in the library,

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and that will be closer to what you're looking for.

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There are a few other ways that you can bring in objects.

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You can bring in objects like from 3DS

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or the SketchUp warehouse.

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And you can just translate those.

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And let me just show you how you would do that.

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So if you went to file and you went to merge,

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you can bring in SketchUp files.

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So you can actually bring in

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lot of different types of files.

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So you're not just limited

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to the library that's within ArchiCAD.

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You can start to build your own libraries.

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So that's objects in a nutshell.