“I’m laid back at lunchtime, but I’m aggressive at crunch time. Let’s get it.” – Jacob “Crunch Time” Mann Many firms out there have figured out how to stabilize in this down economy. The hard layoffs and continued reduction of hours are over (note I didn’t say BEING on reduced hours is over). Many owners are now thinking that their firms will survive. Times will still be tough for a
The Free Educational version of ArchiCAD 15 is FINALLY available for download (as are all the add-ons and Artlantis). Read more about it at the official ArchiCAD blog. More likely though, you’re already heading to www.myarchicad.com to download it.
My adventure started after finishing a bachelor in architecture and working in several architects’ offices. I found that drafting in 2D really annoyed me: First draw the floor plan, then the elevations, manually add in shadows… and then the architect changes the design and you start over again. Those painstaking hours of checking if the elevation matched the floor plan… If only there had been an ArchiCAD feature like Trace
Building next-generation BIM cloud-computing environment will increase customer satisfaction TOKYO, August 26, 2011 — Obayashi Corporation announced that it has signed an agreement on the joint development of a BIM cloud-computing platform with NEC Corporation and GRAPHISOFT. The goal of the agreement is to provide technology leadership for Obayashi through integrated building information modeling workflows and company-wide BIM-based information sharing. Obayashi has been working on reforming the use of BIM
CADspeed has two articles on their blog about ArchiCAD and computer performance. They are both quick reads and well worth it. I will now be sending people to read both these articles when they ask me about upgrading ArchiCAD and their machines or tell me things like “I don’t do much modeling, why do I need to upgrade from ArchiCAD 7 to ArchiCAD 15?” http://cadspeed.wordpress.com/tag/archicad/
Recent History Over the past few months I’ve made a couple of terrain models in ArchiCAD 14 and then exported them to SketchUp 8. At first this was done to figure out a way to collaborate with a fellow architect who is an avid SketchUp user. We both wanted to work in the program we knew best. After I modeled the first site it became evident that it was incredibly
There’s been a lot of talk on LinkedIn about trying to do an ArchiCAD School similar to the Spring / Summer / Winter Schools that are done in Europe. What level of interest is there for doing one in the United States and/or Canada sometime in 2012 or 2013? I’ve created a poll on the forum. Take a moment and vote. And then add your voice to the discussion on
Need every Library shipped with any version of ArchiCAD since 1995? Here’s how to get all the old ArchiCAD Libraries.
ArchiCAD 14 Hotfix (Build 4044) Remember to update everyone using Teamwork 2 (including the BIM Server) at the same time.
