Seattle ARCHICAD User Group — June 19th, 2018
We’re heading back to Hoffman Construction’s office in downtown Seattle for our ARCHICAD user group. At this meeting we’ll hear from Sally Struck, the Pacific Northwest’s new GSNA BIM Consultant, who will be presenting ARCHICAD 22!
DATE:
Tuesday June 19th, 2018
6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
LOCATION:
Hoffman Construction
600 Stewart St #1000
Seattle, WA 98101
HOSTS:
Willard Williams, AIA (Hoffman Construction), Thomas Bormann, and Jared Banks, AIA
ARRIVAL INSTRUCTION:
Enter the building on 6th street between Stewart and Westlake. Someone (Willard, Jared, Thomas and/or Vance) will be waiting in the lobby to let you in the building and deliver you to the 10th floor where you will be greeted by friends, food, drinks, and ARCHICAD. Please try to arrive no later than 6:30 so we don’t have to leave someone at the door the entire meeting. If you’re running late, call or text Jared: 206.504.3075.
TOPICS:
- ARCHICAD 22 – Sally will show off the new features in ARCHICAD 22. If you aren’t familiar with many of the new features, jump over to the ARCHICAD YouTube channel and watch some of the feature videos.
- Everything Else – If we don’t spend the entire evening talking about ARCHICAD 22, I’ll lead a discussion on whatever else we want to talk about. As always I’ll have lots to share.
If you’ve got a current issue, please bring that as well. Our group has a huge collective knowledge. Let’s share what we are doing well and what we’d like to do better. To that end, if you have a project you’d like to share, bring your laptop or a thumb drive (if you bring a thumb drive, save your project as a .PLA so there aren’t missing library parts). I of course will have my machine and projects to share, but I’d love to get someone else’s projects up on the screen. Are you brave enough? If there’s a specific topic you’d like to discuss, or a project you’d like to share, let me know so that we make sure there’s time!
Food and refreshments will be served.
As we always like to do, we plan on having an after-party ARCHICAD nerdfest at a nearby bar. Please share this post and e-mail it to all your coworkers. I know not everyone gets the official e-mails about user groups-especially new and/or quieter employees.
A Big Link to Register for the User Group
Go sign up to claim your spot and let GSNAÂ know they need to feed you: REGISTER HERE!
Seattle Area ARCHICAD User Mailing List
I maintain a list for ARCHICAD users in the Seattle Area (or people interested in Seattle Area ARCHICAD events). If that describes you, sign up by clicking here.
ARCHICAD job hunters!
If you are in the Seattle area and need work, e-mail me. There are plenty of people who want to talk to you. If you want to move to Seattle and use ARCHICAD, e-mail me as well-especially if you like the freelancer lifestyle. If you are an ARCHICAD firm in need of help, definitely e-mail me. I regularly hear from people looking for work, so if I don’t have someone for you today, I bet someone will be reaching out to me soon. As always though, the answer to our need for ARCHICAD help in Seattle (and so many other places) is training new users. The ARCHICAD community is larger now than it has ever been. And it needs to be larger. Not just because a bigger community is more sustainable, but because there’s more work than we can all handle. I don’t know of any firm that uses ARCHICAD that considers themselves overstaffed. It’s time to hire new people and train them on ARCHICAD from the ground up.
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