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Want to learn how to supercharge your BIM processes? Here are some useful ArchiFrame hacks and tips from users and ArchiFrame developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ArchiFrame is a BIM powerhouse with lots of shortcuts and hidden features that you might not be aware of yet. Through years of working with ArchiFrame, our users have found tonnes of useful hacks to help simplify their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From speeding up window framing to angled drillings and finding things via search faster, we hope these tips make your lives easier! Got an awesome hack to share? Scroll to the bottom to find out how to be featured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#1 Window framing hack: get window framing done in minutes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Jan-Frode Nilsen from Lindal Gruppen<\/a> for this super time-saving tip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that you can use ArchiFrame to execute window framing quickly and easily, and then use the function ‘paste picked planks’ to duplicate the framing to other windows in the model?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Jan-Frode explains: “in the model, it will look like I have spent hours and hours on framing all the windows, but this way, it hardly takes me a few minutes to do it”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan-Frode’s way to do it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Find one window in the floor plan after the ArchiFrame-wall has been generated. Draw in the framing exactly as it will be built. (Create the weatherboard in ArchiFrameBlocksChanges). If you have already created framing in another project, it can easily be copied over and placed in the right spot. For easy picking, create a separate layer for window framing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • When you have done framing for one, pick all the parts and connect them to the panel layer in the correct element:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    • Now that you have one window done correctly, you can pick all those parts using the ‘pick’ tool and then go to other panel elements with windows and use ‘Paste picked planks’ to transfer them over. Some adjustments may be needed to help land them in the correct spot, but this is pretty easy when you know how they refer to the opening in the panel. Just get them in there and move them around and adjust the size (most of the time the windows have module sizes, so this is quick and easy.) You can also use this method across floors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • After a few minutes of doing this, your model will look 100 times better for the customer! Plus, every time you do it, the faster you get. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      “Before you know it, you can frame the entire model in just a few minutes. I always do. Using only manual planks I can create any window frame quickly without programming anything: when I am happy with one window I just start spreading them around the model!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Another plus-side is that once you have these things drawn, you can also easily get out the quantity for everything”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      #2 Create V-Cut operations using two lines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      In the video below, Benjamin Fischer, ArchiFrame Developer, goes through how to use the “v-cut with selected line(s)” function in the Cut&Join tool that makes cutting planks and machinings a lot faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In fact, you can easily create V-Cut operations using two lines, as shown in this video: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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