March 8th Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup (Next week!!!)
Date: Tuesday March 8, 2011 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM | Location: Wilkus Architects in Eden Prairie, MN Among other things, we will be discussing opportunities for leveraging ArchiCAD to help get and retain work. It's a big topic
IFC Certification: The Next Step on the Road to True Interoperability
A good article from Green Building Pro on the future of IFC, BIM, and the promised land of real model sharing. Take the time to read it.
AIA MN BIM Breakfast Club – February 22nd – CANCELED
CANCELLATION OF TUESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2011 SESSION The BIM in the Clouds meeting scheduled for 7:30 am Tuesday, February 22, 2011 is canceled due to weather related travel problems for one of the speakers. That sucks.
Pen Sets, Part Two
If you haven't read Part One, you might want to start here. At SALA Architects, I use 6 pen sets on a standard project. In this post I'm going to discuss the basics of two: one pen set, with colors: STANDARD (COLOR) one
Tekla BIMsight
Tekla just released a new BIM collaboration / Clash Detection program to compete with Navisworks and Solibri. It's built around IFC, which is awesome. We need more programs that put neutral source IFC collaboration as a priority. Down with the
ArchiCAD 14 Hotfix released today
ArchiCAD 14 Hotfix (Build 3636)
AIA MN BIM Breakfast Club
BIM Breakfast Club Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:30 am to 9:00 am Location:Â AIA Minnesota Office International Market Square, 275 Market Street, Suite 54, Minneapolis Discussion Topic: BIM in the Clouds Cloud computing is the new computing platform shift. The cloud is really just
Backup! Seriously. Backup.
How often do you back up your files? Daily? You better. Anything longer is a wrong answer. Here's Part One of why: My brother is in IT; when I was younger he excitedly told me about a new server he'd installed. It
Eric Bobrow wants to make you Better
Many of you have probably heard of Eric Bobrow. He's the guy behind ArchiCAD Master Template. Eric was a major Graphisoft reseller for 21 years and is now focused on improving our ArchiCAD skills. Eric has put together
Rabbit Hole Blog
Okay. Time to learn GDL. Check out Rabbit Hole Falling into GDL. It's a new blog with a beautiful name by ArchiCAD-Talk regular Erich. It was started just last month (January 2011). There are only 3 posts so far, but
From Scott’s Bathroom to SketchUp to ArchiCAD
At the Usergroup meeting in January we talked about working between SketchUp and ArchiCAD. You can read the recap here. Scott Newland of Newland Architecture (digress for a moment and check out his website) wasn't able to attend the meeting,
Have You Tried Turning it Off and On Again?
Is ArchiCAD not acting properly? Object movement or 3D navigation is sluggish. The cursor keeps disappearing. Have you tried turning it off and on again? My brother is in IT and I've learned it's a truism of computers. Don't