This case study is awesome. It makes me think of a future where all our cities are digitally modeled and managed. One more reason to love Scotland and the area around Glasgow. And ArchiCAD too. As if my wife needed one more reason to want to spend more time in Scotland. And I’m not arguing. So if anyone who’s reading this is part of STRATHCLYDE FIRE AND RESCUE, let me
Eric Bobrow has a lot of great free videos; he’s recently posted a bunch of new ones on his website that highlight his 7 Keys to Best Practices for ArchiCAD. But my favorite one is still his terrain modeling video. The technique he shares around minute six has come up a lot recently (not only in my own work and that of my coworkers, but also in the work of
Remember when ArchiCAD 15 was a finalist in three categories in the UK Construction Computing Awards? (And we all supported Graphisoft by voting?) Well… BUDAPEST, December 1, 2011 — GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD 15 has won the BIM Product of the Year award at the sixth annual Construction Computing Magazine Awards. Affectionately known as ‘The Hammers,’ the Construction Computing Awards showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design,
Paintings and the Art of Self-Referencing A year ago I wrote about putting paintings and wall art in models. I recommended a trick using walls, niches, and aligning 3D textures. It’s a good technique, but I have to admit that I now rarely use it for hanging pictures. I finally got around to using the Picture 15 object. It’s great and fast. Put whatever image you want in your loaded
When I started this blog, I looked to one place for inspiration: James Murray’s www.onland.info. Last week James left a comment on my blog. Much like when I got comments from Finith Jernigan and Link Ellis, I was super excited and honored. It’s nice to know many of my ArchiCAD and BIM heroes are aware of what I’m doing. In his comment, James included a link to a blog post
I recently had to model a Queen Anne house in ArchiCAD to produce some renderings for a client. It was a ton of fun. And I learned some cool tricks while modeling the various trim and ornamentation. I have to admit, of all the things I’ve done in ArchiCAD, this model is my favorite. Unfortunately I can’t share images of the entire house until the overall project is completed later
On Sunday I briefly wrote about an ideal job posting I saw a few months back. The post generated some nice traffic to the blog and stirred up some good comments in various places. BUT most importantly it spurred one Southern California firm that uses ArchiCAD to post this comment. Anyone in that area looking for a job? Hopefully I just helped connect someone with a great forward-thinking firm. If
A while ago I saw a job posting. Here are some highlights. If you could hire someone tomorrow, would your job posting look like this? Why not? Small, award-winning firm seeks licensed Architect/Project Manager. 60% multi-family housing, mainly for non-profit developers of affordable housing. 40% single family residential, commercial and institutional work. 100% thoughtful, beautiful design. Our work is varied, exciting, and creative. Everyone from drafters to the Principal use
A bit more exciting news about OrthoGraph, from their blog: Many of our users have asked and we listened. The beta version of OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module has just been released, a dedicated application for extending ArchiCAD to read OrthoGraph Architect’s native “.srvd” file format. The current beta version supports the conversions of up to 5 rooms with full functionality from drawings made using the iPad version of OrthoGraph. This
