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How it works
Ask it something hard.
📎 ai-skill-for-archicad.txtLOADED ✓
Set up a room finish schedule from Zones with floor, wall and ceiling finishes and net area, grouped by story.
CLAUDE · WITH THIS SKILLYou get: the scheme criteria (Element Type is Zone, Zone Category filter, story range) and the field list including Zone Name, Zone Number, Net Area and three custom finish properties -> the Property Manager steps to create the finish properties and assign them to the Zone classification -> a CONCAT expression for a combined finish code -> the click path under Document > Schedules > Scheme Settings with grouping by Home Story and a summed area column -> the single next step: fill the finish properties on two zones and check the schedule updates before placing it on a layout.
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// the file itself
Read it before you buy it.
The first lines of the file your AI will read, exactly as delivered. Nothing rewritten for the page.
Use the name Once the file is loaded, talk to it by name: “Serge, check this page.” That is what the name is for. It also keeps several skills apart in one chat.
// the skill your AI runs on
You are a senior ArchiCAD user and BIM coordinator working inside the user's project: layer combinations that behave, schedules, IFC translators and GDL. You have been activated to prepare the artefact and name the ArchiCAD menu path.
KissMySkills.com | Install: paste this whole file into Claude Projects (Project instructions), a custom GPT (Instructions), a Gemini Gem, or your AI's system prompt. Then just ask questions the way you normally would. You are a senior ArchiCAD user and BIM coordinator embedded in the user's daily architectural work. You optimise for a clean, well-templated project: correct classification, layer combinations that behave, schedules that count the right things, and drawings published without last-minute fixes. Tone: direct, practical, click paths using real ArchiCAD menu names, GDL or expressions when needed. · Model elements: Wall, Slab, Roof, Shell, Column, Beam, Stair, Railing, Curtain Wall, Mesh, Morph, Zone, Object, Door, Window, Opening, plus 2D Lines, Fills, Labels and Dimensions. · Organisation: Stories, Layers and Layer Combinations, Pen Sets, Model View Options, Graphic Overrides, Renovation Filters, the Navigator with View Map, Layout Book and Publisher Sets. · Attributes: Building Materials with junction priority, Composites, Profiles, Surfaces, Fills, Line Types, Zone Categories, managed through Attribute Manager. · Classification Manager and Property Manager with custom properties and Expressions (IF, CONCAT, STRTONUM, area and volume parameters). · Documentation: Interactive Schedules (Scheme Settings), Element ID Manager, property-driven Labels, Sections, Elevations, 3D Documents, Master Layouts, Autotext. · Collaboration: Teamwork on BIMcloud (reserve, send and receive, release), Hotlinked Modules, Xrefs. · Interoperability: IFC Translators, BCF, DWG and DXF translators, PDF, BIMx, Rhino and Grasshopper Live Connection. · GDL: 2D, 3D, Parameter and Master scripts, the GDL Object Editor, Library Manager for embedded and linked libraries. · Gotchas: elements on the wrong story or layer, layer combinations not updated after a new layer, schedules double-counting through Hotlinks, IFC mapping mismatched to classification, file bloat from unused attributes. · Ask the ArchiCAD version and OS when menus, features or shortcuts differ. · Ask whether the project is Teamwork or solo and whether Hotlinked Modules are involved. · Ask which template and classification system are in use.
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// what's inside
What's inside this skill
Interactive Schedule scheme settings with criteria, fields and sums
Property expressions and labels that fill from your classification
Layer combination and Model View Options matrices per drawing type
IFC translator checklists and GDL script snippets ready to test
Architects, BIM coordinators and technicians who model and document in ArchiCAD every day.
// two ways to get it
Use it inside your AI, or download it once.
Library plan
This skill and 2,500+ others, inside your chat
$9/mocancel anytime, or $59 a year
All 2,500+ skills, prompt packs and agents, loaded the moment you ask
Nothing to download or paste: connect once in Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Cursor
New skills every week and 10 catalog files a month to download
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// ask your assistant
Or let your AI set up this skill for you.
Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "AI Skill for ArchiCAD" skill (handle: ai-skill-for-archicad) for me
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Your AI walks you through connecting KissMySkills (about 3 minutes, 7-day free trial) and loads the skill. What your AI will read →
What you're actually buying
This Claude/ChatGPT skill works as an ArchiCAD AI assistant inside your daily BIM work: it specifies Interactive Schedule schemes with the right criteria and fields, writes Property Manager expressions for calculated labels and areas, builds layer combination matrices and Model View Options per drawing type, and produces IFC export checklists for the engineers on your project.
It knows Stories, Layers, Building Materials and Composites, Complex Profiles, the Navigator with View Map and Layout Book, Publisher Sets, Teamwork on BIMcloud, Hotlinked Modules and GDL scripting, and it names the menu path for every step. It does not open or edit your ArchiCAD file; it prepares the settings, scripts and checklists you apply, and asks you to test on a copy first.
Works the same way in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. One purchase, download the file, install in under 2 minutes, then describe the schedule, drawing or export problem you are stuck on in ArchiCAD.
// how to install
Under 2 minutes
Four steps. Any AI chat.
01
Download the file
After checkout, the download link lands in your inbox. Save the .txt file anywhere on your device.
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Open your AI chat
Any AI chat you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot or another.
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Paste the prompt
Open the .txt file, copy the prompt section and paste it into Claude or ChatGPT - or add it to a Project so it is always there.
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Start working
Your AI is now configured as a specialist. Ask it anything inside its domain.
No technical knowledge required.
With Library there is nothing to download. Connect your AI once, then ask for any skill by name.
It makes Claude or ChatGPT act as an ArchiCAD AI power user next to you: it specifies Interactive Schedules, writes property expressions and GDL snippets, designs layer combinations and view settings, and prepares IFC export and Layout Book checklists with the exact ArchiCAD menu paths.
Does it operate ArchiCAD for me?+
No. It never opens, edits or publishes your ArchiCAD project. It prepares the numbered steps, settings tables, expressions and scripts, and recommends a Save As copy or a one-element test before anything that changes attributes, layers or Hotlinks.
Can it help with IFC exports from ArchiCAD to Revit or engineering software?+
Yes. It gives the IFC Translator settings to check (model filter, classification and property mapping, geometry conversion), a pre-export checklist for ArchiCAD, and the questions to ask the receiving engineer about their IFC version and schema.
Does it write GDL for ArchiCAD library parts?+
Yes. It produces commented GDL snippets for the Parameter, 2D and 3D scripts of an ArchiCAD object and explains how to test them in the GDL Object Editor on an embedded copy, so the linked office library is not changed by accident.
Ready to give your AI a specialist?
This one and 2,500+ others, inside Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. Cancel anytime.