A lot safer, a lot more secure…
Over the past week you might have noticed some strangeness on the blog. Especially if you visited on Monday or tried to share some posts on Facebook, LinkedIN, etc. Let me assure you, I haven't changed the blog to start
AIA Minnesota Homes by Architects, 5 out 16 ain’t bad
Every year I like to count the number of houses on the AIA Minnesota Homes by Architects tour that were designed in ArchiCAD. This year my back of the envelope calculation says 5 out of 16. That's essentially 1/3. Not
Advice from one of my ArchiCAD Heroes
Remember my recent ArchiCAD Heroes post? In it, I mentioned my five favorite posters on the ArchiCAD-Talk Forum. If you haven't taken the time to start searching out their posts and learning from their experience, that's okay. In time I
Comment on the AIA BIM and Related Digital Practice Documents
This is important. Find time in the next few weeks (before September 24th, 2012) to download and comment on the updated AIA BIM and Related Digital Practice Documents. If you're using BIM, or thinking about it, then these changes are
Finith Jernigan, Awards, and an Original Goal of the Blog
Finith Jernigan's latest book, Makers of the Environments recently won a Global Ebook Award. That's great. Congratulations Finith! Very much deserved. Read more about the award here. Finith's writing and the Origins of Shoegnome Back when I started Shoegnome (now almost 2
And the To Do List gets smaller… Shoegnome on ArchDaily
When I quit my day job in February, I started living off To-Do lists. Some items were minor: go to Target, do the laundry, e-mail the neighbors. Most where things related to my daily work life: write two blog posts,
BIM for Small Projects – AIA Minnesota Continuing Education Lecture
Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM International Market Square 275 Market Street, Suite 512, Minneapolis, 55405 Continuing education AIA. This program meets the AIA/CES criteria and qualifies for 1.5 LU hours of continuing education credit. IDP. This program qualifies as 1.5 IDP
One reason why your PDFs might be Huge
The difference between the 2 PDFs in this image? One fill Left without vectorial fill = 12 KB. Right with vectorial fill = 1.6 MB. This is one of those semi-secrets of ArchiCAD. 3D is better than 2D. We all know that.
ArchiCAD Heroes
Shoegnome would never have existed if I wasn't such a huge fan of Onland.info. I've gushed over James Murray's blog before. He stopped updating his site about the time I started writing mine, so I feel a responsibility to carry
Boston ArchiCAD User Group… come see how Shoegnome runs a meeting
Boston Area ArchiCAD User Group Date: Tuesday August 14, 2012 | 6:00 PM — 7:30 PM | Location: designLABÂ architects 35 Channel Center Street, Suite 103 Boston, MA 02110 RSVP HERE Clear your schedule Join us for the second (and final) user group meeting of the summer here in Boston,
ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix #1 released
ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix-1 package (build 3014) was released today. If you've been reading the Forum and some of the Facebook groups, you might have learned about a crash that occurs when launching a second instance of ArchiCAD 16. Or you