Jared Banks, Author at Shoegnome Architects

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.

March 8th Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup (Next week!!!)

February 27, 2011

Date: Tuesday March 8, 2011 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Location: Wilkus Architects in Eden Prairie, MN Among other things, we will be discussing opportunities for leveraging ArchiCAD to help get and retain work. It’s a big topic and a little different from what we usually discuss. But there are a lot of ideas floating around the group and it’d be great to share. And as always bring

IFC Certification: The Next Step on the Road to True Interoperability

February 25, 2011

A good article from Green Building Pro on the future of IFC, BIM, and the promised land of real model sharing. Take the time to read it.

AIA MN BIM Breakfast Club – February 22nd – CANCELED

February 21, 2011

CANCELLATION OF TUESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2011 SESSION The BIM in the Clouds meeting scheduled for 7:30 am Tuesday, February 22, 2011 is canceled due to weather related travel problems for one of the speakers. That sucks. At least I’ll get more time in the office tomorrow.

Jared Banks