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CI TOOLS

Unleash the full power of Archicad with Ci Tools.

These comprehensive set of tools to provide are an extension to Archicad providing added flexibility and efficiency.

Annotate
+
Cabinets
+
Coverings
+
Detail Elements
+
Keynotes
+
Doors + Windows
+
Electrical
+
Metadata
+
Objective
+
Quantities
+
Sites (ANZ only)
+
Stairs
+
Time Tracker
+
Transformer
+
NZ Bracing
+
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We use Keynotes all the time, with a few graphic tweaks it produces just what we want.

Doors + Windows is very helpful in that it has some great styles and scheduling outputs. We used Detail Elements quite a lot, and the Coverings tool was particularly useful for this project. I think they are just essential.
Joshua Warne
Stevens Lawson Architects
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Ci Tools Packages

Tools & features:

Basic

Your choice of two tools from the available tools below

Basic 5

Your choice of five tools from the available tools below

Premium

All tools listed below
Annotate
Available
Available
Included
Cabinets
Available
Available
Included
Coverings
Available
Available
Included
Detail Elements
Not available
Not available
Included
Keynotes
Included
Included
Included
Metadata
Available
Available
Included
Objective
Available
Available
Included
Quantities
Available
Available
Included
Sites
Not available
Not available
Included
Stairs
Available
Available
Included
Time Tracker
Not available
Available
Included
Transformer
Available
Available
Included
Select Object Library
Not available
Not available
Included
Premium Support
Not available
Not available
Included
MyCi
Limited
Limited
Full access
Ci Tool Knowledge Base
Full access
Full access
Full access
AUD per year license
$370 annually or $37 per month
$740 annually or $74 per month
$840 annually or $84 per month
USD per year license
$330 annually or $33 per month
$660 annually or $66 per month
$780 annually or $78 per month
NZD per year license
$390 annually or $39 per month
$780 annually or $78 per month
$960 annually or $96 per month
GBP per year license
£190 annually or £19 per month
£380 annually or £38 per month
£440 annually or £44 per month
EUR per year license
€270 annually or €27 per month
€540 annually or €54 per month
€620 annually or €62 per month

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What our customers say

I am delighted to share a little of arkLAB’s experience of working with Central Innovations fabulous Ci Tools. As an architectural practice based on the Archicad software platform we are committed to a complete immersion in software and have, from our beginnings, 19 years ago, been very much reliant on the expert support, training assistance and supplementary products of Central Innovations. The two Ci Tools we have benefited from most are the Ci Cabinet Tools and Ci Electrical Tools.
Alan Jordan
arkLAB

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Time Tracker

Keep track of how long you’re spending on your projects in Archicad. This simple to use tool allows you to easily log the amount of time you are working on the various Tasks and Projects you do day to day, so you can check whether the amount of time they take matches up with the amount you anticipated (or quoted).

Sites (ANZ only)

The Site tool provides an easy visual way of evaluating your model in relation to boundaries and height recession planes, and also contains a large library of cutout ‘billboard’ style plant objects and others to assist you in making your landscaping designs.

Sites is especially helpful in the early stages of the design process when exploring design options in relation to the site. It includes area stamps, a tool to make adding boundaries much easier, and a building envelope tool.

Detail Elements

Detail Elements take the work out of detailing with a huge set of smart parametric 2D objects ready to be dragged and dropped. It saves hours from the documentation process by dynamically editing them, and removing the mundane and boring aspects of detailing.

NZ Bracing tool

This tool is only available in New Zealand. Specifically designed for our NZ Customers to calculate the required bracing units for the walls of your Timber-framed buildings based on NZS3604:2011.

The Tool also automatically adds the Bracing Lines, the physical braces based of your preferred Brace Set along these Brace Lines and creates a Bracing Table.

Quantities tool

CI Quantities is a solution for improving the process of calculating, scheduling, and exporting a bill of quantities from a live Archicad project model.

You can assign costs and quantities to your Archicad Elements, or automatically assign them using smart Recipes, and then generate Bills of Quantity at any time as you go,

Transformer tool

The Ci Transformer tool is brand new in Archicad 24 and is a one-click solution for customers who need to Mirror an entire project. Currently, doing that is a time consuming and error-prone process due to the extra work required to mirror and check on all the 2D work and other attached elements when you rotate just the 3D model.

Metadata tool

The Ci Metadata tool allows you to work with the Properties and Classifications of your model elements in a handy palette, instead of having to jump through dialog boxes to find what you need.

It also makes bulk changes of properties easier, and the filter and selection options will help you simply find the elements you’re looking for as you check your model.

Stairs tool

Design stairs with flexibility and freedom, straight onto your model.

With Ci Stairs, you have access to a range of individual components that allow for highly flexible stair configurations for both residential and commercial designs.

Railings can be associated with stairs, slabs or even stand-alone, so that stairs can easily wind at varied widths and heights and open on to landings. Stair assemblies can be edited, labelled and output as if they were a single object.

Electrical tool

With the Ci Electrical tool, placing electrical symbols is not only simple, but smart too. Just set the elevation you want when you place them, and the symbols will automatically rotate and position themselves to your walls when you click to place them.

The Electrical tool comes with a library of Power Points, Switches, Jacks, and other Wall Plates, which can all be shown as either the Wall Plate itself, or the individual components that Wall Plate contains.

Objective tool

Ci Objective has been designed to greatly increase your ability to model in 3D in Archicad, in a way which feels like a natural part of the environment.

The Objective tool now combines the functionality of the Ci Extrusions and Slab Edges tools. This makes it an incredibly powerful tool that gives you everything you need to bend, split, rotate, align and modify elements in your Archicad Model.

Add personality to your designs without restrictions on style, complexity or construction. What’s more, door and window objects made using this tool can be shared across projects, using the powerful Ci Presets system.

Coverings tool

Add realism to your Archicad model by applying 3D modelled skins to walls, slabs, columns and roofs in both 2D and 3D views.

This tool will add depth and detail to the surfaces of your Archicad projects. The surfaces are represented in your 2D, 3D, section and elevation views and they even retain their correct proportions when object sizes are changed.

The surfaces created maintain an automatic relationship to the primary elements, and whenever it is updated or changed, the attached 3D modelled objects update correspondingly.

Cabinets tool

Use just one highly-configurable object to model all your cabinetry, instead of having to use separate objects for each different cabinet type and shape.

Using the new library you can easily model flat and curved cupboard doors and drawer fronts. Mix and match from a generous palette of editable panel styles and handle types to create that unique lookYou can place a full note without any reference directly on a drawing, or place a reference key on the drawing and then Keynotes compiles a schedule of these notes.

Keynotes tool

End the tedium and potential errors of annotating your Archicad drawings by using Ci Keynotes.

Keynotes allows you to annotate your drawings quickly and simply with greater accuracy by providing a framework to create a database of notes (or to transfer an existing database) so that notes automatically attach to elements based on their attributes.

Annotate

Convert the case of text in Archicad on the fly without doing any of it manually The Ci Annotate tool lets you take control of your text case in Archicad – you can change all text, or just the selected text to all-caps, lowercase, sentence case, or heading case, removing the need to retype everything. You can also add exceptions to your text case rules, and even apply the changes to text inside of objects.

Doors+Windows tool

The Ci Doors+Windows Tool gives you the freedom to explore a greater variety of door and window styles with a variety of panels, opening methods, trims and sills.

Add personality to your designs without restrictions on style, complexity or construction. What’s more, door and window objects made using this tool can be shared across projects, using the The Ci Doors+Windows Tool gives you the freedom to explore a greater variety of door and window styles with a variety of panels, opening methods, trims and sills.

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