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Frank for Archicad.
Everything for teams working in Archicad: short videos of Frank on real tasks, prompts to try in your own model, and what we’ve added lately.
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Frank in Archicad, step by step.
Short recordings of Frank on everyday tasks, in viewing order.
01
Editing doors with Frank
Frank finds every bathroom door, narrows the list to the Ground Floor, and exports it to CSV. It then sets the three doors to 90 cm, asks whether you want a single or double leaf, and swaps them for sliding doors.
02
Asking questions about the model
List every room with its area, then filter to the seven rooms over 20 m². Frank finds the doors between the garage and the house and sets their fire rating, confirmed in Door Settings. Click any row and the plan zooms to it.
03
Finding and updating doors
Frank checks which bedrooms have no window, then finds the doors that lead into the bedrooms (D-03, D-04 and D-05) and widens all three to 100 cm. Door Settings confirms the new width.
04
Editing windows with Frank
Ask for the bedroom windows on the 1st Floor. Frank works out which zones are bedrooms, selects the three windows in Bed Rooms 01, 02 and 04, and sets them all to 100 cm high.
Prompts to try
Start with these.
A starter set for Frank for Archicad 2.0. They refer to zones and stories by name, so swap in the names from your own model. Try edits on a copy of the project first.
Find information
Counts, lists and areas from the model.
- Find all doors that belong to bathroom zones on the Ground Floor.
- How many doors are on the Ground Floor?
- How many doors belong to bedroom zones on each floor?
- List all the zones on the Ground Floor with their area.
- Which rooms on the Ground Floor are bigger than 20 m²?
Find specific elements
Locate and select elements by zone, story or relationship.
- Find the doors that belong to the kitchen zone on the Ground Floor.
- Find the doors between the corridor and the bedrooms on the 1st Floor.
- Show me the windows on the 1st Floor.
- Select all bathroom doors on the Ground Floor.
Check your model
Quick checks against dimensions and requirements.
- Which bathroom doors on the Ground Floor are narrower than 800 mm?
- List the width of every door on the 1st Floor.
- Which bedrooms on the 1st Floor don’t have a window?
Edit elements
Change parameters for one element or a whole group.
- Make all bedroom doors on the 1st Floor 900 mm wide.
- Change the height of all bathroom doors on the Ground Floor to 2100 mm.
- Set the sill height of all windows on the 1st Floor to 900 mm.
- Change the height of all walls on the Ground Floor to 3000 mm.
Views and dimensions
Open views and add documentation.
- Open the Ground Floor plan.
- Create exterior dimensions.
Continue from previous results
Send these in order, in the same conversation.
- Find all doors that belong to bathroom zones on the Ground Floor.
- Which of them are narrower than 800 mm?
- Make them 800 mm wide.
Ask why
Ask Frank to explain how it reached an answer.
- How did you decide which doors belong to the bathrooms?
More clips
More of Frank in Archicad.
Recorded in Graphisoft’s Archicad sample projects. Archicad is a registered trademark of Graphisoft SE.
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