Aligning 3D textures in ArchiCAD should be easier. It needs to be done in 3D and this can be tricky if you don’t have a node in the right place to snap to. Sometimes I’ll make a temporary object or one that will stay invisible to have a point to click to if the texture starts in a weird spot, or if I want a lot of textures to all
This AECBytes article by Thomas M. Simmons of ARCHIVISTA is great. Material takeoffs are a lot easier and closer at hand than I thought. Worth a read. I have some experimenting to do.
Although the meeting was focused on new users, there were some great questions and discussions that have value for all users. As in most of our meetings, a fair amount of time was spent discussing complex profiles. For anyone who’s not using complex profiles to their breaking point: get to it! Scott Newland shared a project and showed off some of the ways he was using them. One example, using
Graphisoft is running a very nice promotion between now and the end of 2010. The full details are here. The basics are below: DEAL 1: Buy any new ArchiCAD 14 commercial license with a subscription and get Virtual Building Explorer as a gift. DEAL 2: Buy any new ArchiPLUS subscription and get Virtual Building Explorer as a gift. DEAL 3: Buy any commercial ArchiCAD upgrade and an ArchiPLus subscription and
All new users I work with invariably ask me a question followed by a request. Is there a list of all the keyboard shortcuts? Yes; go to Work Environments, Shortcut Schemes, Keyboard Shortcuts, click Show Shortcut List in Browser. Once they see the seven pages of keyboard shortcuts, the following request is made: You should make a list of the most important shortcuts. Three years later… done. Some of these
One of the promises of BIM is to help us architects spend more time designing and less time documenting. The lion-share of our fees are typically on construction documentation. Wouldn’t it be more fun if we spent 80% of our time designing instead? That’s what BIM promises. Material take offs, energy modeling, facilities management are all great. But if we can keep refining our designs until we have a solution
Paste in Reference Location is an option I never noticed until recently and it’s surprisingly useful. I had structural information form another file that I needed to copy into place. Essentially I was referencing in an updated structural main level plan underneath an outdated one. I pasted the updated info in the story below, but offset 100′. The reason for this was to keep the new information completely separate from
Our next Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group is Monday December 13th, 2010 at SALA Architects in Minneapolis (6:30-8:30 pm). We’re having a special Usergroup meeting in December. It’s going to be all about the basics. This meeting will be ideal for: – New Users – Prospective Users interested in switching to ArchiCAD – Coworkers who don’t use ArchiCAD, but want to know more about it – Experienced users looking to brush
