Being able to navigate the 3D window in Archicad is super basic, but also extremely important. It’s one of those skills that helps make the program invisible, letting you focus on design and documentation rather than the tool itself. Invisibility after all, is one of the important BIM lessons Pantera taught us on their final studio album, Reinventing the Steel.

As always, everything you see in the video is baked into the Shoegnome Open Template and the Shoegnome Work Environment, so if you want to replicate what I’m doing, download the template.

In my recent videos I’ve noticed a few of the menus aren’t being captured by my screen recording software (OBS Studio). Not sure what’s going on with that. The missing pop-up menus aren’t anything critical, just annoying. And it’s not something I notice while recording. Hopefully it’s just an issue with Archicad 27 and when I go to Archicad 28, the glitch will disappear. If not, I’ll do some research and hopefully fix it in the future. Maybe. I don’t know. Not the most important thing in the world.

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