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ArchiCAD 17 is a ‘Best of Show’ Nominee at AIA 2013

July 15, 2013

BUDAPEST, July 15, 2013 — TenLinks, Inc., the largest online CAD, CAM and CAE network, has announced its nominations for best products and services on display at AIA 2013 recently concluded in Denver, Colorado. Among this year’s nominees is GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD 17, in the complete AEC design software category. Highlights at this year’s show included a live demonstration of ArchiCAD’s end-to-end design solution presenting the unique advantages in GRAPHISOFT’s one-of-a-kind

Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group Meeting: Number 21

July 9, 2013

Yes, that’s right. The Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group #21 is almost here. I am more excited about this event than any of the previous twenty meetings. The first meeting maybe comes close, but not really. WHY is this event so special and exciting? Because this event is the first to be hosted, run, and organized without ME. Well clearly I’m still sort of involved… Date: Wednesday July 17, 2013 |

Guest Blogger Willard Williams: Review of the Better Detail Marker by Master Script

June 28, 2013

The Better Detail Marker for ArchiCAD by Master Script is an awesome little tool to add to your box. Â The Object basically allows you to adjust how the tail will look while removing the arrow at the markers’ head. Â The stock ArchiCAD detail markers have limited adjustments of various types of marker heads but few tail options for the Object. Â Our preference within our drawing standards is to have a

ArchiCAD 17 Hotfix #1, ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix #4, AND downloading ArchiCAD 17

June 27, 2013

I’ve got three items to report today as I sit on the floor of my childhood bedroom, watching my youngest daughter open and close the door to my oldest brother’s old bedroom… instead of taking the nap she should be taking right now. ArchiCAD 16 and 17 Hotfix News ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix-4 package (build 3827) was released today. You can read about all the details and download the Hotfix (if

Guest Blogger Shivang Rajvir: 3 Responses to Technology

June 24, 2013

The days and nights we used to spend creating drawings by hand during the early days of college are still fresh in my mind. It was then that this question first hit my mind hard, and it is still with me today. “Why do we use computers?” Since my college days (i.e.2002-2003), there have been innumerable arguments regarding this, with senior faculty members, students, professionals, and even with CAD and

Guest Blogger Endre Ilauszky: The Random City Object for ArchiCAD site models

June 19, 2013

After the successful Ceiling Editor and Floating Dimension objects the next BIM component has arrived in the “Wish upon an Object from BIMcomponents.com”. The Random City component is a very useful tool when you want to place schematic buildings or town parts simply and quickly into the background of an ArchiCAD site model. It is random, as you can adjust the buildings’ geometry and measures to be generated by the

The BIMobject App Now Released for ArchiCAD

June 18, 2013

MALMÃ–, SWEDEN, June 18, 2013 — BIMobject® announced today that the cloud integration App for GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) architectural software developer, has been launched. The App is completely free of charge for all users of ArchiCAD worldwide, giving the ArchiCAD user a toolset to find, source, update and check BIM objects supplied through the http://bimobject.com cloud completely integrated in their software. The integration is completely

The Fallacy of Design Intent – An Awesome BIM Presentation

June 16, 2013

So this is my month of travel. I’ve so far driven from Minnesota through South Dakota to Wyoming. I’m now in southern Colorado; tomorrow night my wife, kids, and I will sleep somewhere in the northeast corner of New Mexico. After that we have a week or so in Texas before flying to Connecticut and finally driving on to Massachusetts… While I’m all over the map, I don’t want to

Guest Blogger Arne Heeres: ArchiCAD Template Creation

June 13, 2013

Reinventing the Wheel Let’s face it. We love it. We reinvent every chance we get hoping to make things better. Without it our lives would be pretty boring, Does this mean however we need to re-invent everything? More specifically, do we need to reinvent our interaction with ArchiCAD for every project? In our careers so far, each of us at [mac interact] have worked with and for offices that to

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