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Building materials

Building materials - Archicad Tutorial

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Building materials

- [Voiceover] After you have created the line types some new field types and some new surface it's time to bring it all together on the building materials. Before we look into building materials let's try to use it a little bit. Every time we are adding a wall or a slab or any other element we actually have to choose here what is the building material of this wall. In this case we are using a generic external cladding building material. We're using a generic building material. If you look at this slab we are also using a generic structure slab. Let's take a look at this on 3D. I'm going to do a little marquee here and press F4 on the Mac or F5 on Windows so we have a cut through this slab. I'm also going to select this wall here and move it down a little bit so we have it transpassing the slab and as you can see the wall is not cutting through the slab but if I change the building material for this slab from generic structure to plywood you will see that now the wall is going through.…

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