Jared Banks, Author at Shoegnome Architects

AIA MN BIM Breakfast Club

February 14, 2011

BIM Breakfast Club Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:30 am to 9:00 am Location:Â AIA Minnesota Office International Market Square, 275 Market Street, Suite 54, Minneapolis Discussion Topic: BIM in the Clouds Cloud computing is the new computing platform shift. The cloud is really just a metaphor for the Internet, a style of computing in which users access technology-enabled services from the Internet without the knowledge of, or control

Backup! Seriously. Backup.

February 13, 2011

How often do you back up your files? Daily? You better. Anything longer is a wrong answer. Here’s Part One of why: My brother is in IT; when I was younger he excitedly told me about a new server he’d installed. It had 7 drives in parallel. You could rip one out of the server while it was on and no data was lost. It needed to be set up

Eric Bobrow wants to make you Better

February 10, 2011

Many of you have probably heard of Eric Bobrow. He’s the guy behind ArchiCAD Master Template. Eric was a major Graphisoft reseller for 21 years and is now focused on improving our ArchiCAD skills. Eric has put together a new online training course on the most effective methods for working in ArchiCAD. In a recent article, AECBytes Tips and Tricks #56, he goes over his 7 Keys to Best Practices

Rabbit Hole Blog

February 9, 2011

Okay. Time to learn GDL. Check out Rabbit Hole Falling into GDL. It’s a new blog with a beautiful name by ArchiCAD-Talk regular Erich. It was started just last month (January 2011). There are only 3 posts so far, but they are good and clear. I’m not sure I could handle more than a few blog posts a month about GDL. My brain might explode. I need to start using

From Scott’s Bathroom to SketchUp to ArchiCAD

February 6, 2011

At the Usergroup meeting in January we talked about working between SketchUp and ArchiCAD. You can read the recap here. Scott Newland of Newland Architecture (digress for a moment and check out his website) wasn’t able to attend the meeting, butÂ he did some exploration after reading the recap. Here’s his experience with modeling a light fixture in SketchUp and then bringing it over to ArchiCAD: What was used: ArchiCAD

Have You Tried Turning it Off and On Again?

February 4, 2011

Is ArchiCAD not acting properly? Object movement or 3D navigation is sluggish. The cursor keeps disappearing. Have you tried turning it off and on again? My brother is in IT and I’ve learned it’s a truism of computers. Don’t just close the file. Close down ArchiCAD. Restart your computer even. If ArchiCAD suddenly starts acting weird, 90% of the time this is the solution. Computers get weird. I swear there

MNAUG #11 Recap

January 29, 2011

Winter Usergroup meetings in Minnesota are an adventure–snow, ice, sub-zero temperatures. I’m always so glad to see a mixture of new and old faces make the trip. This month, even with a location snafu, we had about 1/3 newcomers. Below are some highlights. There’s plenty more that we covered (complex profiles, attribute manager, library updates in v14, among other topics), but this post is already my longest to date. I

Zonematic

January 23, 2011

Micro Aided Design, the Graphisoft Reseller in Finland, has a really cool Add-On for ArchiCAD. They actually have a couple, but Zonematic really stands out. It will create zones from a text file–which from a programing and planning standpoint is just awesome. They have both an English and a Finnish version. You can read more about it and download it for free here.

January Usergroup Location Change

January 21, 2011

Unfortunately we ran into some complications and couldn’t get a room at the UofM for our meeting. No worries. We’ll just meet at the offices of SALA Architects in Minneapolis. I’ll work on getting us onto campus in the future. It would be nice.

Jared Banks

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