Date: Tuesday May 17, 2011 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Location: Wilkus Architects in Eden Prairie, MN 11487 Valley View Rd Eden Prarie, MN There will be a presentation on the curtain wall tool and hopefully a short presentation on how ArchiCAD was used in the University of Minnesota Solar Decathlon House. I’m sure we will also discuss tips, tricks, examples of members’ recent work, and anything else
Let’s start with the basics and get a bit more complex. 1. The enable/suspend groups button should always be visible. If the button looks like the image below, then groups are enabled. Otherwise they are suspended. 2. It’s a good idea to have shortcuts for enable/suspend groups, group, and ungroup. This is what I use: command+G: group option+G: enable/suspend groups command+option+G: ungroup 3. When groups are enabled, you move the
BIM Breakfast Club Next Meeting: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:30 am to 9:00 am Location:Â AIA Minnesota Office International Market Square, 275 Market Street, Suite 54, Minneapolis Discussion Topic: BIM in the Clouds Cloud computing is the new computing platform shift. The cloud is really just a metaphor for the Internet, a style of computing in which users access technology-enabled services from the Internet without the knowledge of, or control
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At SALA Architects, we’ve been using ArchiCAD since v6.5 (1999). However I didn’t join the firm until 2007, at which point I spearheaded the transition of a hodgepodge of v8.1 users following no uniform procedures to a larger number of v11 users following company wide standards. We are now approaching the next big transition period. Over the next year we’ll be moving first to version 14 and then quickly to
Read all about it here. Then check out some of the other great projects by lead architect Tima Zoltán. My favorite is the Riverloft project: a really well done modern addition to an old brick and stone structure. Want to know a little more about who Tierney Clark was? Enjoy.
Are you saving a backup every day? Your answer better be yes. Data safety and organization is the subbasement/foundation of BIM. Your BIM model is only useful if it’s accessible, readable, and existent. Don’t lose your data. It’s not just about file corruption and lost computers. Projects change. And change back. A backup a day allows you to copy and paste changes back and forth between files. – about to
If you’re in the Twin Cities this weekend, check out these two homes designed using ArchiCAD: Project # R56Â -Â Minneapolis – built by Vujovich Design Build, Inc., designed by SALA Architects. Project # R52Â -Â St. Paul – built by Ispiri, LLC, designed by SALA Architects. I talked a bit about the kitchen from R56 in this post (referred to as 03221). You can also learn more about these two houses at the
In the ArchiCAD LinkedIn group, Michael Scarmack, AIA, recently started gauging interest in a global experiment using the ArchiCAD BIMserver that he’d like to conduct. There’s a lot of excitement about this grassroots project and I think it will lead to some big things. What things? I don’t know. But it is entrepreneurial experimentation and group collaboration like this that will bring our industry into the future and prevent our
