There’s now a BIMx Hall of Fame for BIMx projects with over 100 likes. This BIMx project (ZOMBIE ATTACK 2011), as of October 27th, 2011, just crossed the 100 like level to join the Hall of Fame! Click here and like it. Help share all the great and crazy things BIMx can create, like fake first person shooter games.
Sunday night, time to share my favorite screenshot from my BIMx competition entry. Want to know how this screenshot was created? Here’s the explanation.
Miguel Krippahl has been blogging about ArchiCAD since October 2006. Back then I’d been using ArchiCAD for only 9 months. Miguel has decided that after blogging for so long, the BIMx competition is a turning point. If his readers don’t help him win by liking his entry, he’s going to stop blogging. If no one is willing to make the gesture, then his blog isn’t having a significant impact on
So it’s Friday; time to enjoy some screen shots from my BIMx competition entry. Have you voted yet by clicking the like button below the image of the house and tank in this link? I’ve got some more screenshots I’ll post between now and Halloween.
In preparation for my BIMx entry, I spent some time reading up on BIMx Optimization on the ArchiCADwiki. One of the suggestions is to download the PolyCount Add-On. You can download it here. When you’re building a file for export to BIMx, paying attention to polygons is important. Two interesting things to note here. Delete everything you can’t see. For this model I deleted footings, some bathroom fixtures and trusses
Of e-mails and iPads Have you had a chance to read all the great articles about architecture-related iPad apps on ArchiCADmonkey? There are a ton of apps out there and more being announced everyday (I haven’t forgotten about you OrthoGraph). All those articles and a fortuitous e-mail from a friend in the Netherlands convinced me to enter the BIMx competition that Graphisoft is running and hopefully win myself an iPad
Two bits of Mac news. First off, MAC OSX 10.7.2 has just been released. If you’ve already upgraded to 10.7, you’ll definitely want to upgrade to 10.7.2. BUT before you do, read what the ArchiCADwiki suggests. Here are all the release notes as it relates to ArchiCAD If you have yet to upgrade to OSX 10.7, you should read the aforementioned article as well. Since versions of ArchiCAD before ArchiCAD
Not everyone owns a cellphone Not everyone in the firm has their own computer You sign out conference rooms by hand using a clipboard Your boss has his secretary printout e-mails for him You have hand drafters who never ‘got’ CAD Your boss thinks computers are a fad or something to humor the younger staff Too many coworkers aren’t on Facebook, have never heard of Google+, and only know about
Parallel Teams a group of people working on a given project, at the same time. Teams working in parallel are well discussed in the world of ArchiCAD and BIM. There are a variety of options for ArchiCAD users: independent .pln files, hotlinked modules, and of course Teamwork 2. It’s pretty safe to say that, regardless of what other software venders will tell you, there is no better solution for parallel
