BIM Dream Team
April 8, 2012
Hopefully the era of firms trying to fix their BIM credentials through misplaced hiring practices is nearing its end. But probably not.
Jared Banks
Easter Eggs in ArchiCAD
April 1, 2012
Have you seen the list of ArchiCAD Easter Eggs on the ArchiCADwiki? Enjoy! Of all the Easter Eggs in ArchiCAD, I still think this is the best one. But then again I’m a fan of anything that can be related to Zombies.
Moving Windows and Doors Between Walls – I bet you didn’t know this trick worked
March 26, 2012
Glitch Or Hidden Magic? When exploring ArchiCAD, I often find things and need to ask myself “Glitch or Hidden Magic?” Sadly this post about Conditional Operators is an example of a great glitch. Hopefully Graphisoft will either remove it so I stop trying to use it or make it a real function (it is a little finicky in ArchiCAD 15). I hope they make it a reliable function because it’s
Work Environments in ArchiCAD – part 1
March 19, 2012
Thought about your ArchiCAD Work Environment recently? This week I’m trying something different (no real surprise, right?). In honor of setting up my new home office, I’m going to talk about my ArchiCAD Work Environment. I’m not going to cover everything about it, but let’s see what I can share under eight minutes. Here’s one spoiler: If your info box is stretched horizontally across the top of the screen like
This Week’s post is coming, once Youtube stops being a jerk
March 19, 2012
So this week’s post is written. The video is recorded. Everything is good to go. But I’m having issues with uploading anything to my Youtube channel. Hopefully I can resolve it tonight or try uploading from my wife’s computer. I’ve wasted too much of last night and this morning on troubleshooting the issue and am ready to throw something through a window. I think I’ll eat an early lunch and
ArchiCAD Jobs
March 13, 2012
There are a lot of places to look for ArchiCAD jobs, but usually the positions are scattered among a whole variety of other opportunities. So it pays to keep an eye on local AIA boards, craigslist, the Archinect job board (when you click on this link make sure to add the keyword “ArchiCAD”), etc. And on many sites you can filter the job postings by keywords; searching the jobs on
Guest Post on Business of Architecture
March 8, 2012
I wrote a short guest post on Enoch Sear’s Business of Architecture blog. It gives a little more insight into what I’ll be talking about at tomorrow’s TAP webinar. Read it here.
Shoegnome Youtube Channel Updates
March 6, 2012
So far I’ve gotten a lot of very positive responses from my Shoegnome Youtube Channel video tutorials. And it’s definitely helped increase traffic to the blog. 7 of my 10 best traffic weeks have been since I started doing the videos in the middle of December 2011. And I’m sure once I post my 7th video (next week?), I’ll break the 10,000 views mark (I’m at roughly 8,500 views right
TAP Webinar March 9th… and I’m Speaking!
March 5, 2012
That’s Right! I’m really excited about this. I’m one of three panelists talking about BIM for small projects. This is the second in the series. You can view the first webinar here (featuring two ArchiCAD users and one Vectorworks user). I thought the first session was great, so I’m just thrilled and honored to be part of the second one. The other two speakers are Brian Skripac, Assoc. AIA of