A quick word on details, cabinets, and walls
Do I use ArchiCAD to its fullest? Not even close. Is my work a combination of 2D & 3D? of course. Each project is more 3D and less 2D. However, it's not about 100% 3D vs. 100% 2D or 100%
A question asked before I was ready to answer
I was on a panel discussion on BIM in residential architecture during the summer of 2009. One of the audience members, after hearing the four of us talk for an hour, got up and said “But where
10 ArchiCAD tips from Pantera’s Reinventing the Steel
The track list from Pantera's last studio album, Reinventing the Steel, has great advice for any ArchiCAD user. You don't need to love their music like I do to see what accidental BIM geniuses these guys were. Let's look: Hellbound -
Operators
I keep the majority of my operators on a hidden layer called Operators. However it's a pain to turn on the layer when I need it on. In times past I'd either go to the layers, select operator, turn it
Eyeballs and Locks
I've set the keyboard shortcut for the Quick Layers palette to 'control + X'. The filtering capabilities of this little palette are huge and easy to use. I am always isolating layers to do quick moves. When working on a
There are better uses of a machine that sends messages to the past, but…
I'm excited about version 14. I started using ArchiCAD on version 9, dabbled in 8.1, 10, 12, and 13, and have been using v11 since it was released. While working on my first project in v11 back in 2007, I
What have you Unlearned Today?
We all have bad habits in ArchiCAD. Some of this is from how we were taught and some from the version we learned on. As the program evolves, we need to reevaluate how we work. Do we still need to
Avoiding Ugly Messes
I recently attended the usergroup for another BIM software. And I'm damn proud of our local ArchiCAD usergroup. Our mailing list is about a 1/6th the size of theirs, but they only had about double our usual