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Editing elements in ArchiCAD

Editing elements in ArchiCAD - Archicad Tutorial

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Editing elements in ArchiCAD

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- [Voiceover] Before we start modeling our project, we need to understand how we edit elements in ArchiCAD, and one of the great things about ArchiCAD is that it stays pretty consistent in the way you do things. So for instance, the same way you do a line is how you're gonna do a wall. Same way you do a pully line is how you're gonna do a slam. So if you know how to do one, you should be fine doing the other. When you're drawing elements in ArchiCAD, one thing you're gonna notice is this blue text here following the cursor with a distance and an angle, and this is called tracker. To access the tracker you press the Tab key and you jump into distance, if I press the Tab key again, I jump into angle, and if I keep pressing the Tab, ArchiCAD is gonna show me the x, y, and z coordinate in relation to the starting point of the wall. So for instance, if I type here three meters, I should do a three meter wall. Another way to access the tracker is by typing the first letter of the field. So…

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