2013

Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group Meeting: Number 21

Yes, that’s right. The Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group #21 is almost here. I am more excited about this event than any of the previous twenty meetings. The first meeting maybe comes close, but not really. WHY is this event so special and exciting? Because this event is the first to be hosted, run, and organized without ME. Well clearly I’m still sort of involved… Date: Wednesday July 17, 2013 |

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Guest Blogger Willard Williams: Review of the Better Detail Marker by Master Script

The Better Detail Marker for ArchiCAD by Master Script is an awesome little tool to add to your box.  The Object basically allows you to adjust how the tail will look while removing the arrow at the markers’ head.  The stock ArchiCAD detail markers have limited adjustments of various types of marker heads but few tail options for the Object.  Our preference within our drawing standards is to have a

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ArchiCAD 17 Hotfix #1, ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix #4, AND downloading ArchiCAD 17

I’ve got three items to report today as I sit on the floor of my childhood bedroom, watching my youngest daughter open and close the door to my oldest brother’s old bedroom… instead of taking the nap she should be taking right now. ArchiCAD 16 and 17 Hotfix News ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix-4 package (build 3827) was released today. You can read about all the details and download the Hotfix (if

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Guest Blogger Shivang Rajvir: 3 Responses to Technology

The days and nights we used to spend creating drawings by hand during the early days of college are still fresh in my mind. It was then that this question first hit my mind hard, and it is still with me today. “Why do we use computers?” Since my college days (i.e.2002-2003), there have been innumerable arguments regarding this, with senior faculty members, students, professionals, and even with CAD and

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Guest Blogger Endre Ilauszky: The Random City Object for ArchiCAD site models

After the successful Ceiling Editor and Floating Dimension objects the next BIM component has arrived in the “Wish upon an Object from BIMcomponents.com”. The Random City component is a very useful tool when you want to place schematic buildings or town parts simply and quickly into the background of an ArchiCAD site model. It is random, as you can adjust the buildings’ geometry and measures to be generated by the

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The BIMobject App Now Released for ArchiCAD

MALMÖ, SWEDEN, June 18, 2013 — BIMobject® announced today that the cloud integration App for GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) architectural software developer, has been launched. The App is completely free of charge for all users of ArchiCAD worldwide, giving the ArchiCAD user a toolset to find, source, update and check BIM objects supplied through the http://bimobject.com cloud completely integrated in their software. The integration is completely

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The Fallacy of Design Intent – An Awesome BIM Presentation

So this is my month of travel. I’ve so far driven from Minnesota through South Dakota to Wyoming. I’m now in southern Colorado; tomorrow night my wife, kids, and I will sleep somewhere in the northeast corner of New Mexico. After that we have a week or so in Texas before flying to Connecticut and finally driving on to Massachusetts… While I’m all over the map, I don’t want to

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Guest Blogger Arne Heeres: ArchiCAD Template Creation

Reinventing the Wheel Let’s face it. We love it. We reinvent every chance we get hoping to make things better. Without it our lives would be pretty boring, Does this mean however we need to re-invent everything? More specifically, do we need to reinvent our interaction with ArchiCAD for every project? In our careers so far, each of us at [mac interact] have worked with and for offices that to

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GRAPHISOFT Ships ArchiCAD 17

BUDAPEST, June 11, 2013 — GRAPHISOFT®, the global leader in Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions for architects, announced today that ArchiCAD® 17’s global rollout process has begun. Shipping starts with the International, US, and German versions — the first three of 26 local versions that, according to a busy release schedule, will all reach the market by the end of Q3 2013. For specific shipping dates in the various markets,

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