Seriously. After 4 1/2 years at SALA Architects, I’ve left to pursue other adventures. I left my very stable job. A job where my coworkers appreciated what I provided for the firm and would love for me to stay there forever. During the worse economic meltdown in almost a century. With a wife in school full-time. And two young daughters. Happy Birthday Madeleine. You’re 3 tomorrow! And only a vague
It’s Valentine’s Day, so let’s share some love between BIM platforms… It also happens to be a busy week at Shoegnome doing things I can’t talk about or share right now. So here’s some news that’s a little old, but still good. You can now download Tekla BIMSight directly from www.myarchicad.com. You can read about all the details here. This is a great step for the industry. We need convergence,
I found an excuse to combine my love of art cars and ArchiCAD I can’t tell you how much time I’ve spent trying to match shadows in renderings to photos. Why didn’t I think of this before? All digital photos have a date and time stamp. Plug that into ArchiCAD (3D projection settings/more sun), pick your location, set your project north correctly and that should be that. This photo was
Instead of writing a blog post and recording a video for the Youtube Channel tonight, I get to deal with a broken washing machine. Joy. I’ll get the post and video up either Tuesday or Wednesday night. In the meantime… There are a lot of ways to hear about my latest blog posts, news, and adventures. Here are the three biggest: Like Shoegnome on Facebook Follow Shoegnome on Twitter Subscribe
Since the release of ArchiCAD 15 I’ve enjoyed using the shell tool–more for it’s ability to be reshaped in 3D, plan, section, and elevation than its crazy form-making opportunities. BIMES has created a 4 minute video that highlights how impressive and versatile the shell tool is and I am just blown away. Enjoy. This video originally came from a blog post by BIMES that explains the origin and reasoning behind this
To Close out 2011, here’s a great video of Ice Cube talking about the Eames. It’s from Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene. I know it doesn’t have anything to do with ArchiCAD, but it’s Ice Cube talking about the Eames. How cool is that? I hope you enjoy it and I’ll see you in 2012 with a lot of great new ArchiCAD stuff for the
A very good article about how local Minnesota firm Wilkus Architects uses ArchiCAD. This is definitely worth a read. Great images too.
This is great news from last week. Now you can start using OrthoGraph on the iPad with direct, NATIVE export to ArchiCAD for under about 150 euros. Note, you’ll need both OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module SE (99 euros) and Orthograph Architect for iPad (39.99 euros). OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module SE lets you import 50 rooms per file from the iPad directly to ArchiCAD–which is bigger than any house I’ve ever
