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Finith Jernigan, Awards, and an Original Goal of the Blog

August 22, 2012

Finith Jernigan’s latest book, Makers of the Environments recently won a Global Ebook Award. That’s great. Congratulations Finith! Very much deserved. Read more about the award here. Finith’s writing and the Origins of Shoegnome Back when I started Shoegnome (now almost 2 1/2 years ago, yikes!), I had a few vague ideas about what my plans were. I thought I’d write a blog and make a little side money acting

And the To Do List gets smaller… Shoegnome on ArchDaily

August 19, 2012

When I quit my day job in February, I started living off To-Do lists. Some items were minor: go to Target, do the laundry, e-mail the neighbors. Most where things related to my daily work life: write two blog posts, updated the LinkedIn profile, record more videos. And some where a little more grand: chase work with my blood brother* David, write a book, get Shoegnome mentioned on ArchDaily… Well

BIM for Small Projects – AIA Minnesota Continuing Education Lecture

August 16, 2012

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM International Market Square 275 Market Street, Suite 512, Minneapolis, 55405 Continuing education AIA. This program meets the AIA/CES criteria and qualifies for 1.5 LU hours of continuing education credit. IDP. This program qualifies as 1.5 IDP Training Hours. In August 2009, AIA Minnesota ran a program focusing on the use of BIM in residential projects, and by extension, for small firms.

One reason why your PDFs might be Huge

August 14, 2012

The difference between the 2 PDFs in this image? One fill Left without vectorial fill = 12 KB. Right with vectorial fill = 1.6 MB. This is one of those semi-secrets of ArchiCAD. 3D is better than 2D. We all know that. But more often than not, all the 3D elements take up less hard drive space than all the 2D ones. Stuff a project with tons of 2D

ArchiCAD Heroes

August 6, 2012

Shoegnome would never have existed if I wasn’t such a huge fan of Onland.info. I’ve gushed over James Murray’s blog before. He stopped updating his site about the time I started writing mine, so I feel a responsibility to carry the torch he held for so many years. Most of his 679 posts are still just as relevant now as they were when James wrote them. When I was teaching

Boston ArchiCAD User Group… come see how Shoegnome runs a meeting

August 1, 2012

Boston Area ArchiCAD User Group Date: Tuesday August 14, 2012 | 6:00 PM — 7:30 PM | Location: designLABÂ architects 35 Channel Center Street, Suite 103 Boston, MA 02110 RSVP HERE Clear your schedule Join us for the second (and final) user group meeting of the summer here in Boston, Massachusetts. At the last meeting I was just some guy who raised his hand and said hi. At this meeting I’ll

ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix #1 released

August 1, 2012

ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix-1 package (build 3014) was released today. If you’ve been reading the Forum and some of the Facebook groups, you might have learned about a crash that occurs when launching a second instance of ArchiCAD 16. Or you might be one of the unlucky ones to have already been suffering with this issue. Suffer no more. This Hotfix also resolves some other minor zone calculation-related issues. You can

All the Changes in ArchiCAD 16 that we love, but won’t be Advertised

July 30, 2012

There are a lot of little tweaks in every version of ArchiCAD that don’t get top billing. Or any billing at all. Yet some of these changes are huge and exciting for us nerdy, obsessive users. There is a great list (started by ArchiCAD Hero Link Ellis) from last year on the ArchiCAD forum detailing all these unannounced changes for ArchiCAD 15. I wrote a post about it. Discover both

Compatibility notes to ArchiCAD on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

July 25, 2012

Kind of important News If you’re using any version of ArchiCAD and getting excited about Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (or have already installed it). Read This. Now: http://archicadwiki.com/OsxMountainLion If you are already on Mac OS X 10.7, this is old news; but for those of you jumping from 10.6 or earlier, or an older version of Windows, no more using any version of ArchiCAD older than version 10.

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