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This document provides a summary of behaviors for the wall object in current ArchiCAD and Constructor, GraphiSoft.
The Appendix is quoted directly from the help file in Constructor. It provides detail information of a wall object including its constructions and behaviors.
Five tasks are to be investigated in this report, including:
1) Is a wall segment delimited to have a single floor plane?
2) Is a wall also delimited to a single roof plane?
3) Can a wall have non-horizontal changes in construction (through its cross-section)?
4) Does the wall object support internal framing layout?
5) Can a wall be a lofted surface, with a bottom curve and top (or intermediate curve) that is lofted between?
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Printing to a PDF file:
Set up your line weights first. I like to use hairlines for the on screen display and for most quick linework for printing (very thin lines). Line thicknesses are established in the pens and colours dialog box. You can select a pen colour, and adjust the thickness for printing or for on-screen display. There is another dialog box for determining whether or not you will see hairlines on screen or true line thicknesses. I just use hairlines on screen: easier for accuracy in making things and easier on my eyes.
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01 figure tool – placing an image into the 2d window
02 mesh tool – modelling a 3-dimensional topography
03 plotmaker – exporting pages/ printing pages
04 element attributes/ customization of settings
05 camera tool and setting up 3d views etc
06 navigating around the 3d window – internal engine/open gl engine
- axonometric/perspective settings
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A building’s architectural design and its physical structure are closely interrelated: on the one hand, the architectural design of the building defines the structure; on the other hand, the structural design of a building reflects the overall architectural design. As structure became a visual and aesthetic part of the design in modern architecture, structures must be as light as possible while maintaining complete integrity. Also, the structure must be optimized for performance and price.
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TurnTool is a real time 3D graphics solution targeted at the growing market for 3D on the Internet. Integrate your 3D visualizations in web pages and other applications for interactive viewing and manipulation – responding to user input from mouse and keyboard. Knock your audience off their feet in amazement! The TurnToolBox for ArchiCAD is a plugin for Graphisoft’s architectural application ArchiCAD.. It makes it very easy to create breathtaking interactive 3D visualizations. Note that the TurnToolbox plugins exists for other 3D applications as well.
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The site was in a very appealing location, within one of the housing hotspots of the Midlands. The private location in a leafy green setting was perfect for a high quality development of four 2.5 storey 2500sqft detached houses. However, our design proposal would be a backland development, additional houses built within an already built up area, on the edge of Sutton Park. “We were confident that we could design a scheme that would give maximum site coverage whilst retaining the leafy setting.
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ArchiCAD 9 arrived with what at first I thought were minor improvements. But they add up to quite a lot, especially for 3D work, visualization, and working on a laptop with a cramped screen (figure 1). The latter situation may occur often now that ArchiCAD supports terminal server technology that makes it possible to work over the Internet from a remote location.
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The Floor Suite system includes a number of custom made objects for laying out and scheduling mid-floor framing and an ArchiCAD Add-On Tool which enables the user to operate easier with the objects, create schedules and export these data into an XMLfile.
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This module provides a foundation of working with text in Photoshop. With the following exercise under your belt, you will be ready to take on most any challenge creating and laying out text in PhotoShop.

What you will do:
You will learn a variety of methods for working with text through the process of creating an informational mini-poster.
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This article is based on the Sphinx talk from MySQL UC 2008. It is not a verbatim transcription but pretty close to it.
What’s Sphinx?
- FOSS full-text search engine
- Specially designed for indexing databases
- Integrates well with MySQL
- Provides greatly improved full-text search
- Sometimes, can improve non-full-text queries
- By more efficient processing (in some cases)
- By distributed processing on a cluster (in all)
- Details later in this talk

Sphinx is a free, open-source full-text search engine that was designed from ground up for indexing the content stored in local databases. Sphinx can pull the data from many different databases, but it ties especially well with MySQL. It offers a number of improvements compared to MySQL’s built- in full-text indexes; but what’s interesting, in some special cases it can also improve general purpose, non-full-text SELECT queries. It manages to do so either by processing the queries more efficiently than MySQL, or by distributing the load across the cluster of Sphinx nodes, or by combining both. We’ll return to that in the second part of the talk.

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