My second year of blogging I’m now at two years of never missing a week. I can’t believe that. This is post 213, which means I’m averaging slightly OVER 2 posts a week. I did not plan on that. I really meant to do only one post a week. I guess since I quit my day job, I’ve just been having too much fun posting and thinking about ArchiCAD. We
The Morph Tool Allows pleasant Surprises There are a lot of great examples of what the Morph Tool in ArchiCAD 16 can do. If you want to see some crazy shapes and amazing forms, the videos in this post will disappoint you. If you want to start thinking about how to integrate the Morph Tool into your design process, then keep reading and watching. The first video shows a quick
Trial, Education, and Academic versions of ArchiCAD 16 are now available at myarchicad.com If you’ve already upgraded your key to ArchiCAD 16 at upgrade.graphisoft.com, then you can use the downloaded version to start working in ArchiCAD 16 instead of waiting for your box and DVD to arrive. And remember if you’re upgrading your key on a mac, read this post first. Enjoy! Oh and on an unrelated note, I’m planning
Blame it on Boston. Or that I was visiting my parents in Connecticut for a long weekend and didn’t open ArchiCAD 15 yesterday. Either way, I’m a few days behind on learning that ArchiCAD 15 Hotfix-4 package (Build 3898) has been released (came out on June 28th). You can read about all the details and download the hotfix (if your ArchiCAD isn’t set to automatically notify you) here. Remember to
So this is part 2G. Like all those countless movie sequels, it’s time to change up the post titles and not highlight that this is the equivalent of 2007’s Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends. Just call it Land Before Time: The Wisdom of Friends. There’s no need to see the original Land Before Time movie to appreciate this umpteenth sequel. By the way, I saw the original
Here’s Part 2F of my series on Work Environments. Have you read all the others? Part 1, Part 2A, Part 2B, Part 2C, Part 2D, and yes even Part 2E? Â Cleanest Work Environment EVER This is a Work Environment from a friend and local Minnesota ArchiCAD user. He redoes his Work Environment monthly. The craziest WE he tried was having no navigator on screen but having the organizer on a
Redlines We all know what Redlines are. Either digitally or by hand, someone is reviewing a set of drawings and marking them up to be corrected. Redlines are a critical part of the chain of command. A younger staff member can do a set of drawings or model a building and the project architect or some other experienced coworker will review them. Mistakes are caught, corrections are made, and beautiful,
It’s been a few days since I watched the BIM Components webinar and I’m still super excited I’ve already used ArchiCAD 16 as a beta tester and even gave my own presentation on it to the Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup back in May. But watching the BIM Components webinar I learned a bunch of new stuff and I can’t wait to start using ArchiCAD 16. Yesterday while working in ArchiCAD 15,
At the end of last year, an ex-colleague of mine and I — after 18 and 12 memorable years spent at Graphisoft — decided to carry on with the work we did as GDL fans in our former workplace with heart and hand. Since we established our new company, many friends have asked what manuBIM means Well, it’s not an unknown deap-sea animal —as we usually say 🙂 — but parametric
