If you haven’t read Parts One or Two, you might want to start here. At SALA Architects, I use 6 pen sets on a standard project. In this post I’m going to discuss the basics of two: one pen set, for structural drawings: HALF TONE (STRUCTURAL) one pen set, for electrical drawings: HALF TONE (ELECTRICAL) As I mentioned in Part One, setting a view to grayscale in the layout book
Cool fountain designed by Ondrej Cisler using ArchiCAD. I love that they modeled the whole square to better design the fountain. You can check out more of the firm’s work here. Both their designs and their ArchiCAD abilities are very impressive. There are some great examples of efficiently and legibly modeled urban sites. Also while you’re at their site, check out the Nikola Tesla Memorial. I know I’m a sucker
Our March 2011 usergroup meeting was one of my favorites: there was a wonderful turn out and a lot of lively discussion. The main topic for this meeting was what is everyone doing to leverage BIM / ArchiCAD to get and retain clients? While we did cover a lot of how-to stuff, it was all structured around that basic question. BIM offers a lot of great opportunities. Better coordinated documents,
I got a weird error message recently. An attribute went missing. Find and Select with the criteria set to ‘element type is All and attributes are Missing’ didn’t work. It seemed likely that it was an attribute of an attribute that was bad (an image associated to a material, for instance). Thus I needed a different solution. How do you find that? Backups. And thinking about what changed. I did
If you use ArchiCAD and have the internet, you probably know about Eric Bobrow’s Best Practices Course. I talked a bit about it in this earlier blog post. Since that post, I’ve heard a lot of good things about the course and Eric has also posted more free videos. Registration has opened up and will stay open until the 9th of March. Looks like a great course and a very
Every day Cadimage posts a tip on their blog. Every day. Some are specific to their products, but many are little gems for everyone. The tip from March 1st is a great example of one of these hidden treasures for the masses. Why did I never know you could reposition the camera in the 3D projection settings (perspective settings)? I knew I could change the camera in the 3D project
Graphisoft just published the latest edition of their Newsletter. It’s great to see Shoegnome get a mention! Is anyone else feeling a bit more optimistic about the future than we were a year ago? Enjoy.
Date: Tuesday March 8, 2011 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Location: Wilkus Architects in Eden Prairie, MN Among other things, we will be discussing opportunities for leveraging ArchiCAD to help get and retain work. It’s a big topic and a little different from what we usually discuss. But there are a lot of ideas floating around the group and it’d be great to share. And as always bring
A good article from Green Building Pro on the future of IFC, BIM, and the promised land of real model sharing. Take the time to read it.
