Complex Profiles in Archicad for walls, beams, and columns

Complex profiles are how you build custom cross-sections for walls, beams, and columns when Archicad's standard profiles do not have the shape you need. This course teaches the tool and the logic behind it, then puts it to work on the column and beam tools, where segmentation and per-segment profiles take those elements well past generic geometry. You learn to create profiles, import them, save favourites, and edit them with modifiers. Self-paced eLearning you take when it suits you. Assumes you already know the Archicad basics.

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Who it's for

One course covering the complex-profiles tool and the column and beam tools, for people who already know Archicad and want to model custom elements instead of working around them. It assumes you have the basics, so if you are brand new to Archicad, start with Archicad Fundamentals. Pick the situation that sounds like you.

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The shape you need is not in Archicad's standard profiles

Some walls, beams, and columns need a cross-section the standard profiles cannot make, a custom cornice, a special edge, a non-standard column. You learn to build that shape with the complex-profiles tool, so you can model the profile your project calls for rather than approximate it.

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Your columns and beams are stuck as generic geometry

Placed straight from the toolbox, columns and beams come in as generic shapes. You learn to use segmentation and per-segment profiles to drive both tools further, so a column or beam reads as the element you intended, not a placeholder.

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You rebuild the same custom element on every project

If you remake the same custom beam or column each time, the work never compounds. You learn to import profiles and save them as favourites, so a profile you build once is ready to reuse across projects.

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You know the basics and want more from the wall, beam, and column tools

You model competently and want the wall, beam, and column tools to do more. This is the step after the basics, the custom-profile layer that makes those everyday tools far more capable. Training a team? Talk to an advisor about booking together.

What you'll learn

By the end you can build a custom profile, apply it to walls, beams, and columns, drive columns and beams with segmentation, and import, save, and edit profiles with confidence. Here is the scope.

A complex profile is a custom cross-section you apply to a wall, beam, or column. Before you build one, you learn what the tool is doing and why, so you can reason about a profile instead of copying steps. This is the base everything else on the course builds on.

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Build the profiles your projects actually need

Enrol on the eLearning course and take it at your own pace, or talk to an advisor about training the team together.

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