I was feeling guilty that I hadn’t scheduled an ARCHICAD user group in February. Then we got over 20″ of snow in 10 days and I’m kind of glad I’ve been too busy to get things organized. Now that the weather is better, it’s time to get together and talk ARCHICAD.

Date:

Tuesday March 26th, 2019
6:00 PM — 8:00 PM

Location:

DeForest Architects
1148 NW Leary Way
Seattle, WA 98107

Speakers:

1. Thomas Simmons of ARCHVISTA, Inc. — Tom Simmons is flying up from the Bay Area. A long time ago Tom was the ARCHICAD reseller for the Pacific Northwest. Why is he coming up to see us in Seattle? I’ll let you put two and two together.
2. Jared Banks, AIA of Shoegnome Architects — If Tom doesn’t take up the entire time, I’ll lead a discussion on whatever else we want to talk about: ARCHICAD 22, best practices, problem solving your issues, etc. 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 GSNA know they need to feed you: REGISTER HERE!

ARCHICAD job hunters!

Seattle Area ARCHICAD User Mailing List

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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