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When designing by hand, the steps to starting a new project are simple: grab a writing implement, a surface to write on, and start being creative. As long as you have a pencil, pen, crayon and a notebook, napkin, scrap of plywood you are ready to go. If you are doing production drawings by hand (please tell me very few people still do this), the process isn’t much more complicated.

You select a sheet of velum or mylar with your title block pre-printed on it, add a few details to the title block, and pick where you want to start. ARCHICAD and BIM are of course different. Sure you can launch ARCHICAD and get to work.

But that’s ignoring the power of the tool. There are a number of things you should do when you start a new project. The major first step is what you open when you launch ARCHICAD. One could literally launch a blank file, one with nothing in it and start working.

But there would be so much to do. A true is an experiment and a educational tool, not a starting point. You could also open your most recent project, do a save as, delete the building and start your new project. Hopefully no one does that anymore.

For so many reasons, which will hopefully be made more clear throughout this article, that is a crude and unstable way of working. Using an ARCHICAD template is the first step to starting a project.

I’ve said it a million times: templates are the key to BIM success. Drevitalize 2 42 Portable more. Hopefully you’ve read my recent article on.

But to drive the point home, here’s my favorite diagram from that post:Accepting the power and importance of templates, one could say that starting a new project is “Open ARCHICAD, chose your template, and get to work.” But having a template is not the same thing as a project initiation process. While templates provide a lot of the basics you need when you start a file, there are still a number of things we can not yet automate in ARCHICAD and a number of actions we can’t embed into a template. Fortunately these are often processes we can document and do mindlessly very early on. A project typically starts with a given site and a rough understanding of some key features: square footage, number of stories, etc. These are all clues that can be used to block out plans, elevations, and even sections before a project is designed. All these pieces should already be in your template, but will rarely be sized properly. Furthermore you might have two (or more) standard sheet sizes and need to pick the right one for the project.