We use Keynotes all the time, with a few graphic tweaks it produces just what we want.
Stevens Lawson Architects
These comprehensive set of tools to provide are an extension to Archicad providing added flexibility and efficiency.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.