Jared Banks, Author at Shoegnome Architects

Virtual Visible Views Project

March 27, 2011

In the ArchiCAD LinkedIn group, Michael Scarmack, AIA, recently started gauging interest in a global experiment using the ArchiCAD BIMserver that he’d like to conduct. There’s a lot of excitement about this grassroots project and I think it will lead to some big things. What things? I don’t know. But it is entrepreneurial experimentation and group collaboration like this that will bring our industry into the future and prevent our

IFC Hotfix Preview, more secrets revealed!

March 24, 2011

Who else caught this on the LinkedIn ArchiCAD page recently? I never knew Graphisoft released fixes to ifc bugs between the regular hotfixes. In all honesty this doesn’t effect me at all. The majority of my work is residential. I do all the architectural, structural, and electrical drawings in ArchiCAD. I rarely have to share my data with anyone using anything more than an old version of AutoCAD. But I

Pen Sets, Part Three

March 20, 2011

If you haven’t read Parts One or Two, you might want to start here. At SALA Architects, I use 6 pen sets on a standard project. In this post I’m going to discuss the basics of two: one pen set, for structural drawings: HALF TONE (STRUCTURAL) one pen set, for electrical drawings: HALF TONE (ELECTRICAL) As I mentioned in Part One, setting a view to grayscale in the layout book

ArchiCAD-designed Fountains Grace 2015 European Capital of Culture

March 17, 2011

Cool fountain designed by Ondrej Cisler using ArchiCAD. I love that they modeled the whole square to better design the fountain. You can check out more of the firm’s work here. Both their designs and their ArchiCAD abilities are very impressive. There are some great examples of efficiently and legibly modeled urban sites. Also while you’re at their site, check out the Nikola Tesla Memorial. I know I’m a sucker

MNAUG #12 Recap

March 13, 2011

Our March 2011 usergroup meeting was one of my favorites: there was a wonderful turn out and a lot of lively discussion. The main topic for this meeting was what is everyone doing to leverage BIM / ArchiCAD to get and retain clients? While we did cover a lot of how-to stuff, it was all structured around that basic question. BIM offers a lot of great opportunities. Better coordinated documents,

High / Low. You backed up, right?

March 6, 2011

I got a weird error message recently. An attribute went missing. Find and Select with the criteria set to ‘element type is All and attributes are Missing’ didn’t work. It seemed likely that it was an attribute of an attribute that was bad (an image associated to a material, for instance). Thus I needed a different solution. How do you find that? Backups. And thinking about what changed. I did

Your 7 Day Window to Register for the Best Practices Course Just Started

March 3, 2011

If you use ArchiCAD and have the internet, you probably know about Eric Bobrow’s Best Practices Course. I talked a bit about it in this earlier blog post. Since that post, I’ve heard a lot of good things about the course and Eric has also posted more free videos. Registration has opened up and will stay open until the 9th of March. Looks like a great course and a very

Great Tip from the Cadimage Blog

March 2, 2011

Every day Cadimage posts a tip on their blog. Every day. Some are specific to their products, but many are little gems for everyone. The tip from March 1st is a great example of one of these hidden treasures for the masses. Why did I never know you could reposition the camera in the 3D projection settings (perspective settings)? I knew I could change the camera in the 3D project

Graphisoft Newsletter, Q1 2011

March 1, 2011

Graphisoft just published the latest edition of their Newsletter. It’s great to see Shoegnome get a mention! Is anyone else feeling a bit more optimistic about the future than we were a year ago? Enjoy.

Jared Banks