This plug-in provides you with all of the tools necessary for creating as-built surveys within ArchiCAD. Its tools for designing and placing doors and windows allow you to quickly and easily draw an as-built survey and convert it into a 3D model made up of parametric ArchiCAD elements.

Work Method
With the Room tool, using the same logic as if you were doing a freehand sketch, you design the rooms being surveyed on the Floor Plan (rectangular, L-shaped or freeform) and add any necessary notes or information. Next you define the positions of doors and windows, using either a generic type (single- or double-door) or choosing one from the ArchiCAD Library.

Using the Trilateration tool, you insert the diagonals in the room to block the as-built survey geometrically; if there are intersecting diagonals, ArchiMap lets you define which ones are primary and which are secondary. Furthermore, you can define a 90° angle between two walls or insert hotspots inside, outside or along the sides of the room being surveying (for example, for placing a pillar or to define the position of an element on a wall).

The Measurements tool lets you insert the lengths of the room’s sides or diagonals either individually or in sequence. You can input the measurements manually or by interfacing directly with Leica’s Disto™ Plus laser distance meter (via a BlueTooth connection).

The Join tool allows you to connect rooms that have been surveyed and stored, using the doors that the rooms have in common. If the thickness of the wall separating the Rooms is not uniform, you can join the rooms using four hotspots (two in each room), resulting in the generation of a trapezoidal wall.

Once the rooms have been joined, you can create a Perimeter around them and define the following parameters: the maximum and default thickness of the perimeter wall and internal walls, the trapezoidal wall limit, the limit for the difference in aligned walls’ thicknesses and the limit for trapezoidal perimeter walls.

Using the 3D Construction tool, you can select the as-built and the Perimeter and then either manually or automatically erect all of the walls and insert the doors and windows selected from the ArchiCAD Library.

ArchiMap erects editable walls individually based on the active settings for ArchiCAD's Wall tool (height, materials, pen, internal hatching, etc.); the 2D as-built is thus converted into a 3D model made up entirely of parametric ArchiCAD elements.