Seattle ARCHICAD User Group — June 20th, 2019
Join us in Seattle as we explore ARCHICAD 23 at our next ARCHICAD User Group.
Date:
Thursday June 20th, 2019
6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Location:
DeForest Architects
1148 NW Leary Way
Seattle, WA 98107
Speakers:
- Sally Struck — Our GRAPHISOFT BIM Consultant out of Portland, OR will be up in Seattle to give us an overview of ARCHICAD 23.
- Thomas Simmons of ARCHVISTA, Inc. — Tom Simmons is flying up from the Bay Area. Tom is the ARCHICAD reseller for the Pacific Northwest.
- Jared Banks, AIA of Shoegnome Architects — Any time left over after Tom and Sally are done, I’ll fill with something useful about ARCHICAD.
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.
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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 am always hearing from people looking for work, so if I don’t have someone for you today, I bet someone will be reaching out to me tomorrow. I can’t promise I’ll find you a job, freelancer, or employee, but I’ll try. 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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Jose
Hi Jared. I was completely blown away by archicad 23 premiere. While Revit is trying hard to do It all themselves (ironically going against bim principles of collaboration), graphisoft is partnering with the best in the business.
More importantly, archicad is slowly but surely becoming parametric right in front our eyes. Not in a Dynamo or grasshopper way, but in it’s core functionality. Soon, Revit families will look like a feature from the past.
The moment archicad begins to handle better terrain creation and annotation in a more automátic way along of what i think project Everest Will be, they will blow everyone out of the water (and actually, they already have the in house framework for this, as vectorworks seems to handle terrain amazingly well, while real automátic and updatable anotation in plan, section and elevation could be handled using the same Workflow used for the section tool. If an element can be cut or proyected in a section, it surely can be annotated finding it’s right limits and or axis per the projection in that said section and just update itself as you move or add elements, anotating based on selected criteria).
But i digress. Whats your take on all of this? What are your impressions on this new version?
Regards!
Jared Banks
I’m very excited about ARCHICAD 23. It seems to have a nice mix of basic utility features, modeling improvements (beams and columns!!!!), and next generation tools (improved Grasshopper connection and Twinmotion integration). My main criteria for a successful release (beyond being stable) is a release that improves my workflow, removes modeling/documentation barriers, and also gives me new avenues to explore with the hopes of eventually evolving my methods of production and design. If ARCHICAD 23 delivers on its promises, I think it’ll be another knockout version.