In early March 2012, I was one of three panelists for the BIM for Small Projects II AIA-TAP webinar. If you missed it, or just want to watch it again, it’s now up on YouTube. Here’s a link to the AIA page on the webinar. If you really want to see all the visuals, I suggest you make the video full screen. The whole webinar is great, but if you
What are you doing May 25th & 26th, 2012? Well let me give you a recommendation: ArchiCAD 2012 Spring Academy in Riga, Latvia. Here’s some info from the ArchiCAD Users Association’s website about the event: “ArchiCAD Spring Academy 2012 is a two day celebration that will educate, entertain, and immerse you in the ArchiCAD community. You will be offered access to ArchiCAD BIM related products and services, paired with expert
Hopefully the era of firms trying to fix their BIM credentials through misplaced hiring practices is nearing its end. But probably not.
Photorealistic rendering is probably the most time-consuming mode of architectural representation. Even approximating realistic lighting conditions and material effects through specialized rendering software is an arduous task of trial and error. While I recognize and respect the place of these images in the contemporary practice of architecture, the daily reality of a small practice demands a method for producing renderings not dependent on large investments in software, time or personnel.
Have you seen the list of ArchiCAD Easter Eggs on the ArchiCADwiki? Enjoy! Of all the Easter Eggs in ArchiCAD, I still think this is the best one. But then again I’m a fan of anything that can be related to Zombies.
Glitch Or Hidden Magic? When exploring ArchiCAD, I often find things and need to ask myself “Glitch or Hidden Magic?” Sadly this post about Conditional Operators is an example of a great glitch. Hopefully Graphisoft will either remove it so I stop trying to use it or make it a real function (it is a little finicky in ArchiCAD 15). I hope they make it a reliable function because it’s
Thought about your ArchiCAD Work Environment recently? This week I’m trying something different (no real surprise, right?). In honor of setting up my new home office, I’m going to talk about my ArchiCAD Work Environment. I’m not going to cover everything about it, but let’s see what I can share under eight minutes. Here’s one spoiler: If your info box is stretched horizontally across the top of the screen like
So this week’s post is written. The video is recorded. Everything is good to go. But I’m having issues with uploading anything to my Youtube channel. Hopefully I can resolve it tonight or try uploading from my wife’s computer. I’ve wasted too much of last night and this morning on troubleshooting the issue and am ready to throw something through a window. I think I’ll eat an early lunch and
There are a lot of places to look for ArchiCAD jobs, but usually the positions are scattered among a whole variety of other opportunities. So it pays to keep an eye on local AIA boards, craigslist, the Archinect job board (when you click on this link make sure to add the keyword “ArchiCAD”), etc. And on many sites you can filter the job postings by keywords; searching the jobs on
