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Someone’s comparing ArchiCAD to Revit and you should pay attention

March 5, 2013

Why should you be paying attention? Because of the WHO doing the comparing. Scott Mackenzie, BIM Manager at Stantec, is doing his own head-to-head comparison based on his extensive personal experience. The first post definitely reads as if it’s being written more for himself than for us. Which is awesome and very interesting. I hope he keeps it up and ignores any comments that disagree with his assessment. There’ll be time

I was going to write a post about LOD

March 5, 2013

Level of Development or Level of Detail (depending on how you define LOD) is a super fascinating concept. And ultra-critical to functioning intelligently in BIM. It’s not a be-all, end-all answer to success in BIM, but an awareness of the development and certainty of the information in BIM greatly benefits communication. And Communication is at the heart of good collaboration (foreshadowing). Instead of me writing more tonight, I’ll stop and

Think you can’t construct with ArchiCAD? Meet Mota-Engil

March 4, 2013

This looks like a really interesting webinar. Regardless of what BIM authoring tool you use, it’s always very interesting (and enlightening) to see how contractors are employing BIM. It just so happens that this construction firm, after searching long and hard, ended up choosing ArchiCAD. I’m looking forward to seeing how and why. This construction-specific online seminar will highlight how implementing BIM leads to numerous benefits for construction companies, including:

No Hollywood BIM

February 18, 2013

GRAPHISOFT North America and Trimble Vico Wednesday, February 27, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (PST) Los Angeles, CA Movie stars, fast cars, and cocktails by the pool. Â That’s what people imagine when you say the word Hollywood. Â When you say Hollywood to a general contractor or architect, the first thing that pops to mind is “Hollywood BIM” and the firms who try to woo owners with spinning models

What’s (BIM) Life Without a Challenge?

February 7, 2013

There is constant, never ending talk concerning the whole Revit vs ArchiCAD debate. In years past there have been CAD shootouts, though it’s been long enough since the last one that they might as well have never happened. But there’s really no current data on how these major BIM platforms compare. And isn’t that what all of us BIMnerds are about? Gathering data and turning it into functional Information? A

GRAPHISOFT Launches EcoDesigner STAR Public Beta

February 6, 2013

BUDAPEST, February 6, 2013 — GRAPHISOFT®, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) architectural software developer, has announced the launch of EcoDesigner STAR Public Beta, the first software that places standard-compliant energy analysis in the heart of the architects’ familiar BIM work environment. EcoDesigner STAR enables architects to design the most energy-efficient buildings, without having to rely on input from engineers or specialist consultants. Built on ArchiCAD 16’s native Energy Evaluation

Disabled Java plugin on Mac (new JAVA 7 Update 13 fixes this)

February 1, 2013

From the ArchiCADwiki: Breaking news – Disabled Java plugin on Mac Update 02/01/2013: Apple has recently blacklisted the Java Web plugin, as a result GRAPHISOFT’s key plug programming site (https://upgrade.graphisoft.com/) is not working on Mac systems. In some cases the site returns Java is outdated message, in other cases it just displays the standard error message, linking this site. With the latest OS X updates Apple has added a security

OrthoGraph Architect 4.1 released with simplified drawing

January 28, 2013

OrthoGraph’s intuitive sketching and measuring functionality has been enhanced with a new simplified drawing workflow. The natural way of sketching a floor plan is extended with the Sketch & Tap feature which accelerates the creation of multi-room drawings with a new level of sketch recognition. OrthoGraph’s sketch recognition functionality has already been a unique and industry leading way of creating floor plans. First by simply sketching the outline of a

Make the ARE Vignette Program HARDER

January 25, 2013

So I titled my post about the beta-testing of the ARE practice program “The Most Advanced 64-BIT Drafting Program“. That was a bit of a snarky, jerk comment. I am so thrilled that it is finally going 64-bit. I have heard too many horror stories from friends who took the AREs after I did. They had to go to work and use the old 32-bit machine connected to some random

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