Fear GDL No More…
Bring GDL to Life and Make the Objects You Want, Hands-on, with David Nicholson-Cole.
No class scheduled at the moment.
Day 1: The Object-Making Everyone Should Know
Learn how to create your own objects and customize existing library parts. In a step-by-step fashion, learn how to create not just custom furniture, moldings, windows and doors but also custom structural and decorative elements that are shaped and rotated to meet your design requirements. Increase the level of detail in your models, drawings and renderings, while increasing your productivity. Some elementary GDL scripting will be covered, although the majority of modeling will be done visually with standard tools. Some third party visual object creation tools will also be demonstrated if time permits.
Join us and learn how to:
- build your own custom library parts using ArchiCAD’s familiar Slab, Wall, Mesh and Roof tools
- customize standard ArchiCAD library parts by adding custom parameters and rotation
- import manufacturer 2D and 3D DWG/DXF files as library parts
- create objects from models created in other 3D programs, like SketchUp, or those easily downloaded
- use tools that create objects for you (e.g., Profiler, Trussmaker, ArchiForma, SketchUp)
Prerequisite: A working knowledge of ArchiCAD and no experience with GDL.
Day 2: Making Parametric Objects - Introductory GDL Programming
Learn the fundamentals of creating parametric GDL objects with the basic concepts of Graphisoft’s Geometric Description Language. We will work through increasingly complex examples of 2D, 3D and parameter scripts to create objects whose display behavior changes based on parameters and stretchiness. While it would take at least two more days of training to master GDL, this day will provide a firm understanding of the essentials that are sufficient to create and modify a variety of objects that will improve your day to day productivity.
Prerequisite: Creating objects as taught in The Object-Making Everyone Should Know class, above.
$295 per person for one day, $495 per person for both days;
Additional people from the same firm: $250 for one day; $400 for two days, per person.
Call Caitlin at 714/612-4547 to reserve your space.
About the Instructor
David Nicholson-Cole is the author of the GDL Cookbook. He is an instructor of architecture at Nottingham University in England, as well as the coordinator of ArchiCAD Winter School in Austria and ArchiCAD University in Nottingham England.