ArchiCAD Libraries by Djordje Grujic Even with over 500 objects you get with ArchiCAD, you will always need more. That is why there are additional libraries, from Graphisoft or independent developers. You can't get enough Graphisoft ArchiCAD is known by its parametric objects. With the program, you get over 500, mostly 3D objects. What happens if you need something that is not there? Starting with ArchiCAD 5.0, you can load more than one library in your project. The default ArchiCAD library contains almost everything you need in everyday work, but mostly in simplified 3D shapes. If you don't want to place angular people and cars in your project, there are two solutions: learn GDL, and structured programming, or do not spend your time and choose other's relatively cheap objects. Before describing the available libraries, let us point to two important Internet sites for everybody that needs additional objects. Accessing the URL http://www.objectsonline.com you can browse and buy single objects or groups of objects. At the average price of 10 USD per object, this is a good place to shop. A very important place for all those who want to make their own objects, that is to say learn GDL, is University of Nottingham's David Nicholson Cole website. Accessing the URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/`lazwww/cookbook you are enlisting on a complete GDL university course with examples, and you can order the book, too! If programming is not your game, buying what you need is the solution. ... The next two libraries deserve special attention. The first, produced by Digital Architecture called People Library, contains people. Those people are not angular, but rounded as they should be, with 40 (!) parameters on the average, defining the posture and the position of the figure in space, ending with the angle between the fingers and the hand, and even defining if the figure is thin, athletically built, nicely rounded, or ... ahem ... ready to diet. The figures are divided into Business and Casual groups, although during the summer there is no harm in going to work wearing bermuda shorts. Of course there are parameters defining the colour of clothes and hair, starting at 6 and ending at 9 per figure. Although small enough to fit on a diskette in its basic form, this library expands as it is recommended to save every carefully positioned person as a new object. In this way, you are making your own library of preset figures. A few added details, like the umbrella and the champagne glass, are contributing to this library, invaluable for the interior perspectives, rendering them more humane and measured to the man. The only objection comes from a lady who said that the haircuts and the clothes are old fashioned - well, you don't design a Techno club every day. ... Working with ArchiCAD, you will always need something else, which can be modeled, programmed, or bought, as single object, or a library. The only thing you can be sure of is that you will get what you need.