One of the promises of BIM is to help us architects spend more time designing and less time documenting. The lion-share of our fees are typically on construction documentation. Wouldn’t it be more fun if we spent 80% of our time designing instead? That’s what BIM promises. Material take offs, energy modeling, facilities management are all great. But if we can keep refining our designs until we have a solution
Paste in Reference Location is an option I never noticed until recently and it’s surprisingly useful. I had structural information form another file that I needed to copy into place. Essentially I was referencing in an updated structural main level plan underneath an outdated one. I pasted the updated info in the story below, but offset 100′. The reason for this was to keep the new information completely separate from
Our next Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group is Monday December 13th, 2010 at SALA Architects in Minneapolis (6:30-8:30 pm). We’re having a special Usergroup meeting in December. It’s going to be all about the basics. This meeting will be ideal for: – New Users – Prospective Users interested in switching to ArchiCAD – Coworkers who don’t use ArchiCAD, but want to know more about it – Experienced users looking to brush
Many years ago when I was an intern at Gensler in Houston, one of my jobs was transferring redlines on shop drawings. The lead architect marked up the original and then I made 5 copies by hand. Some shop drawings came across my desk today and I had a thought. At SALA, I’ve set up pen #20 to always print red (more on that later). What if I dropped a
Graphisoft is hosting a webinar on Teamwork 2 and how it facilitates collaboration. You can learn more and register here: Bridging Continents – Online BIM Collaboration around the World And watch a nice 35 second trailer here.
We had a good turn out last week for our 9th Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup. To celebrate a full year of meetings we had pizza (thanks, Graphisoft). We covered a lot of topics at this meeting. Many of them–like Solid Element Operations, two recent projects I’m working on, pen sets, complex profiles, and template development–deserve their own blog posts. So here are a few of the topics that we discussed that
A former colleague of mine, who was in the process of starting her own one-person firm, told me “I never liked drafting, I’m hoping to get someone else to do that.”
Our next Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group is Tuesday November 9th, 2010 at SALA Architects in Minneapolis (6:30-8:30 pm). November’s meeting will cover a wide variety of topics that have been suggested at recent meetings and subsequent e-mails. Some of those topics are SEO, template development, Version 14, pen sets, and schedules. We’ll see how much we can cover. And as always bring anything you want to share and any questions
It looks like there are some issues with the latest Java Update on Mac OS X 10.6. You can learn about the issue and get the ArchiCAD 14 patch here and the ArchiCAD 13 patch here. Future hotfixes of both versions will incorporate this patch.
