Architerra Fundamentals. Terrain and site, inside your Archicad model

Real projects sit on real ground, with slope, roads, and cut and fill to account for. This self-paced course teaches the Architerra workflow in Archicad: bring in surveyor and GIS site data, build the terrain model, shape the site with plateaus and retaining walls, lay out roads and work their length profile, calculate cut and fill, and georeference to your local standards. Your whole site lives in the Archicad project. Delivered as eLearning, taken at your own pace. Assumes you already know your way around Archicad.

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Who it's for

One course for Archicad users who design or document buildings on real sites. It assumes you have the Archicad basics, so if you are new to Archicad, start with Archicad Fundamentals. You also need the Architerra add-on; if you do not have it yet, see the product first. Pick the situation that sounds like you.

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Your buildings sit on real, sloping ground

Flat-site assumptions break the moment the survey arrives. You learn to build an accurate terrain model in Archicad, so the ground is part of the project from the start, not an afterthought.

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You get surveyor and GIS files and have to make them usable

Survey and map data arrives in formats that need work before they fit the model. You learn to bring that site data in, set your coordinates, and turn it into a terrain you can actually work with.

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You need roads, plateaus, and cut and fill in the model

Site work means grading, access roads, and knowing how much earth moves. You learn to shape plateaus and retaining walls, lay out roads from a plan polyline, and read cut and fill straight from the model.

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You keep jumping out to a separate tool for site work

Handing the site off to another tool means a second model to keep in sync. You learn to do the terrain and site work inside Archicad, so it stays in the project instead of a separate model. Training a team? Talk to an advisor.

What you'll learn

By the end you can take site data into a working terrain model, shape it, lay out roads with their length profiles, and read cut and fill across it, all in the same Archicad project. Here is the scope.

Site work starts with someone else's data. You learn to bring surveyor and GIS files into Architerra, establish the map data, pull coordinates, and set the project in the right place. In Norway that includes SOSI map import; the same workflow takes the survey formats used in your market. The imported data becomes the base your terrain is built on.

What people say after the course

Your whole site, modelled in Archicad

Enrol in the eLearning course and start at your own pace, or talk to an advisor about training the whole team.

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