Civill Group

Virtual BuildingIn ArchiCAD you build a real-sized Virtual Building using virtual building elements. If properly modeled, your virtual building can be used to automatically generate the necessary drawings, visualizations and calculations with minimal 2D adjustments.Use walls, openings, slabs, columns, beams and roofs to virtually construct your building, instead of having to compile drawings from lines and other 2D elements. ArchiCAD elements are “intelligent”: these components are not merely a collection of lines or 3D surfaces, but rather entities with a set of editable parameters. For example, a wall has thickness, height and material parameters, among others. ArchiCAD’s intelligent elements connect to each other automatically and are displayed in 2D according to architectural conventions. At this point, once modeling is finished, documentation becomes an effortless task.The real advantage of using the virtual building concept becomes clear when you have to modify something in your building. If you are using separate 2D drawings, you have to implement the modification on each drawing. In contrast, in ArchiCAD you modify the model at one place, then all generated drawings will reflect your changes at once.