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HOW BIM DESIGN WORKS
BIM designs commonly begin the terrain on which the building is to be situated, then the building
is designed with one or more floors. BricsCAD can handle this, but for this tutorial, we’ll do
something a little simpler.
We begin with a 2D floor plan, and then extrude with the PolySolid command into walls and floors.
1. Start BricsCAD with the BIM workspace and Imperial units.
2. To make it easier to see your work, change the visual style Wireframe. You can do this in the Properties pane
Explorer with the View > VisualStyles option, shown at right.
... or at the command prompt with the -VisualStyles command:
: -visualstyles
Visual styles: set_Current/Saveas/Rename/Delete/?: c
Enter visual style [2dwireframe/Wireframe/Hidden/Realistic/Conceptual/Shaded/shaded with
Edges/shades of Grey/SKetchy/X-ray/Other/cUrrent]: : wireframe
3. Draw an outline of the floor plan. For this tutorial, draw a rectangle 50’ by 25’ with the Rect command’s Distance
option. This is the typical size of a house in North America.
: rect
Select first corner of rectangle or [Chamfer/Fillet/Rotated/Square/Elevation/Thickness/Width
of line/Area/Dimensions]: d
Length to use for rectangles : 50’
Width to use for rectangles : 25’
Select first corner of rectangle or [Chamfer/Fillet/Rotated/Square/Elevation/Thickness/Width
of line/Area/Dimensions]: 0,0
Other corner of rectangle: (Pick a point in the upper right corner of the drawing area)
Rectangle defining the floor area
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