What does element-level modeling mean in ARCHICAD 23?

ARCHICAD 23 offers element-level modeling features

ARCHICAD 23 announced with a brand-new structural modeling tool for column and beams. This new feature is not just a fancy upgrade of existing column and beam tool, but a revolutionary solution that enables element-level modeling for columns and beams. It comes very handy specially when we are dealing with modeling, data management, and documentation of prefabricated structural elements such as reinforced concrete, steel, timber and composite structures.

So, what does element-level modeling features mean really?

In a simple explanation, it means now columns and beams are hierarchical elements which consists of one or more sub-elements. Each sub-element called “Segment” in ARCHICAD 23 and each segment can be a simple element or custom profile with their own classification and set of properties. Isn’t it amazing that now we can use both schedule and label tool to not only extract properties and parameters of a structural element (column or beam) but also from their sub-elements? Here I short graphical explanation:

While GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD 23 introduced segments, I started to search about its use cases in practice and I realized this new feature ease the modeling process and geometry accuracy for modeling prefabricated elements. During my brief investigation I found some examples from different providers in Spain (Tecnyconta in Zaragoza, Hormipresa in Tarragona, and Pujol in Leilda) and other countries such as in The Czech Republic (VCES). I gave it a try and just in few minutes I could model a detailed post and beam connection using the real prefabricated columns and beams from a provider catalog in Spain (Tecnyconta in Zaragoza). Below you can see the image I took as sample and a short video of how easy and fast I did the modeling:

post and beam

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