A few things have changed since the last time I mused about Orthograph. I got an iPad (well my wife and I bought an iPad mini for ourselves, though it’s mostly hers) I got a copy of Orthograph 4.0 Orthograph 4.0 was released I’ve had some time to play around with Orthograph 4.0 and so far I’m quite happy. It definitely lives up to the assumptions I made in my
What is EcoDesigner Star? You can read a little more by clicking on this link, but here are the basics: “EcoDesigner Star enables architects to use ArchiCAD’s building information model (BIM) directly as a building energy model (BEM). This ensures streamlined collaboration between designers and energy consultants. Furthermore, EcoDesigner Star offers standard-compliant energy analyses on the BEM and produces a detailed building performance report, all within the familiar ArchiCAD design
Are you familiar with ArchiMag? They are a quarterly magazine on the iPad dedicated to all things ArchiCAD. They do a great job of getting some familiar faces and names to write for them (Eric Bobrow, Apollo Spiliotis, Jeroen de Bruin, and me). In 2011 and early 2012, I wrote 3 articles for them. It’s on my to do list to talk with them and see about writing for them again in
Are you familar with Dwight Atkinson’s books? He’s got two great ones for ArchiCAD users. There’s the Artlantis Attitude which obviously covers rendering with Artlantis. And for people looking to do all their rendering within ArchiCAD (yes it’s possible), he also has The LightWorks in ArchiCAD Book. From everyone I’ve talked to, both books are the bible for rendering in their respective application. Semi-related, you can find Dwight commenting on
I read a lot of things that annoy me. It’s hard not to. Thanks Twitter. You’re really helping me out. Sometimes I get smart and stop following people who write too much that frustrates me. I’m also doing my best to just unfollow people who only tweet boring stuff. On an overly personal note I also went through and unfriended about 30% of my Facebook friends recently because seriously do
I need some work that’s not writing. Because if I’m writing then I can’t listen to podcasts. And I really want to be listening to 99% Invisible right now. I learned about this podcast recently from one of my top three favorite podcasts (Stuff You Should Know). This seems to be how I learn about podcasts these days, from other podcasts I like. What is 99% Invisible? It’s a short
Got this in my e-mail today, figured I should share… One Week left to submit your project! AIA TAP Building Information Modeling Awards Submission Deadline: 5PM ET, December 17, 2012 The AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community is hosting its ninth annual Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards competition. The competition is seeking projects that exhibit exemplary use of integrated and interoperable building information modeling. The Ninth BIM Awards
Unfortunately I can’t just share the video directly on my blog. So the link below will take you to the 3 minute video where I talk about Improving Client Communications with BIM, which I realized on the flight back from Washington DC is what I really should have titled the talk. Oh well. Maybe when I revise it and give the talk a third time! Enjoy: Jared talks to US
I’ve noticed a peculiar response to the 2012 UK Construction Computing Awards. You know, the awards Graphisoft and ArchiCAD consistently do really well at, winning BIM Product of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. The awards that Revit doesn’t fair as well in. The response I see from one segment of the community is to dismiss the awards (as provincial, alleged, etc.). The argument boils down to “my software
