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- [Instructor] So let's talk about library parts.

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So library parts

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that come with ArchiCAD are pretty comprehensive

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but they might not necessarily represent the exact object

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that you're trying to place.

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So for instance,

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if we have some furniture

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and we go through here

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and we have a couple bookshelves

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and drawers and things like that,

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they might not necessarily be exactly what you want.

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So, with that being said,

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ArchiCAD has developed a new method for creating objects

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and so if we go to the ArchiCAD website

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on the sidebar here

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we have this little expanding kind of menu bar

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and if we go to support

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and we go down here to Downloads,

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we will see some of the downloads

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that are available from Graphisoft's website.

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So if we go to Library

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and we clicked on this Library Part Maker

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and so this is the Library Part Maker's kind of webpage

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and you can download it for Mac or Windows

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and so I've already done that

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and I've gone through the installation process

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and so once you've done that,

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if you go to Design

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and then you go to Design Extras,

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there's this Library Part Maker option here.

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So once we open that up,

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it gives us this option here.

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So what we're going to do

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is we're going to quickly create a table

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and so what I'll do

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is I'm just going to grab a slab.

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I'm going to make this a little bit smaller either way

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and I'm going to make the thickness

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of the table top two inches

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and then I'm going to look at the material

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and I'm going to make it a wood.

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We'll just use OSB for now

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and I'm going to set the height of it to be,

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let's just make it 42 inches.

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I'm going to start by clicking

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and I'm just going to make it a four foot by eight foot table

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and I'm going to give it some legs

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and so I'll pick some legs.

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I'll just make them wood structural

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and let's see here.

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I'm going to take this off

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and I'm going to make them also 40 inches

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since the table top itself is 42 inches

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and I'll make them four by four thickness

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and let's just do something here

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and so when I click in here

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just going to drop this leg here.

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I'm going to move it to the corner

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and I'll probably just move it in three inches.

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So I'm just tabbing and clicking into there

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so I get three inches

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and let's just mirror these.

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So just using shortcut command to mirror

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and copy it

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and I'm going to do the same thing here.

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I'm going to mirror and copy it.

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So my shortcut command is Ctrl + M for that

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and then I'm just using the option command

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to make a copy of it.

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So let's look at that in 3D.

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So I'm just going to select it

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and I'm going to view in 3D

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and so there is my table looks okay

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and so what I'm going to do

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is I'm going to go back to the floor plan

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and now I have this Library Part Maker option here.

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So the first thing I'm going to do

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is I'm going to select the area

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that I want to include in my design.

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So let's just make a box around there

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and so now I have the design.

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I'm going to do one other thing

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is I'm going to explode this object.

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So if I go down to Edit and then Reshape

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and then if I go down to Explode

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and I'm going to keep the original elements there

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and I'll tell you why in a second.

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So let's just explode that.

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So that means that

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all the three dimensional objects are there

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but also I have a two dimensional line

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of what I was just looking at

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and so if I click on here

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and I go down

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and if I make a marquee around this area

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and then I go to the Line Tool

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and I just push Command A.

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So looks like it might be a polyline tool.

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So there's the line elements

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and I am going to go over here

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and I'm going to say the 2D full is that selection

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and then I'm going to select all the objects,

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the three dimensional pieces

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and I'm going to assign that to 3D full

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and I am not going to adjust the properties

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but if I needed to

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I can import properties

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and then there's another option here,

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what property listings do you want

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so you could use the National BIM Standard

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or you could use the ARCHICAD Listing Parameters

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and I'm going to go in Details

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and so I've already created

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a three dimensional representation of this

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so if I went into here

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and I want to adjust it,

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I'm just creating a three dimensional image

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from what I actually have

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and then I could adjust any of the information

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in here as necessary.

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So let's do one thing here

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and so now we go to Check and Save

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and I'm going to make it an object

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because it doesn't really fit into

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any of these other kind of parameters

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and then if I say Check,

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it's saying that it's missing origin

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for 2D and 3D

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and then it says some elements

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have no component type assigned.

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So I'm going to do something here.

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So one of the requirements for creating an object

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is to assign the origin

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which you can see here.

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So if I go down to my Level Dimension Tool

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and I'm going to just assign the origin here

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and then if I go back to the Define Library Part

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and I select everything that's signed

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and so let's, just a sec here

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and we'll do 3D

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and then if we go to the 2D Symbol,

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I'm going to actually put another origin

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and let's go back and check it.

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So right now it's giving me a yellow warning

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but I can still make the object.

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So here is kind of the parameters

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that are associated with the object itself

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and I can go to Save

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and then I can embed that into my projects library

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and now if I go over to my Object Tool,

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I've already got this library object

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embedded in the library of the project

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and I can look at it in 3D,

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I can look in an elevation

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and then I can place it.

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So I'm just going to place that object there

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and so there is the object that I created

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so I'm going to just look at this in 3D

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and so there we have it,

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we have this object that we've quickly created

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and we can manipulate the color

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and some of the other kind of properties of it

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but this is a great way to kind of quickly create objects

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that you're going to be using over and over,

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objects that might be custom or unique

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that you really want to represent accurately

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in your project

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and so that's the Library Part Maker,

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very unique tool with ArchiCAD

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that will help you generate information

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that will be useful in your project.