Eye Candy with a Ton of Substance I got the press release below from Tekla this morning: What is happening in the construction industry right now? Check the 42 projects from 18 countries that compete in this year’s Tekla Global BIM Awards for a nice view. The contestants come from all areas of construction industry, from industrial projects and bridges to office buildings and sports venues. The one thing they
Last week was Thanksgiving in the United States. My wife, daughters, and I drove down to Texas to visit family, friends, and do some business (the benefits of partnering with your best friend). So my time to write was severely limited. In fact I told myself I’d skip the week and not post. It’d be my first off week in 2 1/2 years. I nearly failed. I wrote most of
MNAUG #18 is coming… Date: Thursday December 13th, 2012 | 12:00PM — 1:30 PM | Location: Wilkus Architects 11487 Valley View Rd Eden Prarie, MN We’re trying something new in December for the Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group. Instead of an evening meeting we’re going to have a lunch presentation. It’ll be at Wilkus Architects and the intent will be to have it more like a 90 minute training session. I’ve
Do you know how to create these two images in ArchiCAD? Clink on the images or the links to read posts I wrote for BIM Engine that talk more in depth about each. With a little bit of knowledge and template set-up both are very easy to do–and they are a great leap forward for what our documents can be. Evolution of an Elevation Adding Legibility to Details
BUDAPEST, November 12, 2012 — GRAPHISOFT announced today that BIMx, its cutting-edge communication and presentation tool for BIM projects, is now available through the Amazon AppStore for Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire Gen 2. Amazon AppStore is available to customers located in the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and United Kingdom. BIMx is an interactive environment that allows users to explore full BIM models without holding a license
I’m going to start this post with a hypothetical encounter. Here’s an imaginary e-mail exchange I often have: Dear Mr. Banks, ArchiCAD is driving me crazy. I want to keep working like we did when I first got out of school. But the computer is MAKING me do things I don’t want to… Help! Fix it and tell me what I need to do to get back to the good
Jared’s Note: I’ll be attending this event, and will have a ground report for you sometime next week. I’m very excited to leverage the collective architectural power of a room full of architects and designers with access to ArchiCAD and Teamwork 2 to do some good for a community in need. Freak tornadoes in New England are dear to my heart, as my parents’ house in Connecticut was destroyed by
Are you attending Architecture Boston Expo? You know, that architect’s convention in Massachusetts next week that I’m speaking at? Or do you wish you could? Well… GRAPHISOFT North America has a promotion code for ABX attendees. Â It’ll give you a 60 day trial — instead of the standard 30 day. You can sign up using the code between now and December 31st, 2012. So don’t dawdle. Here are the details:
I’m being lazy tonight because of the election and spending all day at the AIA Minnesota Convention. Here’s the info from the link below: This hotfix has been published for solving IFC issues occurred after ArchiCAD 15 Hotfix 4 (Build 3898). Due to technical reasons this package does not only update the IFC add-on in the existing ArchiCAD package but all ArchiCAD components and fixes several errors found in those
