Graphisoft is running a very nice promotion between now and the end of 2010. The full details are here. The basics are below: DEAL 1: Buy any new ArchiCAD 14 commercial license with a subscription and get Virtual Building Explorer as a gift. DEAL 2: Buy any new ArchiPLUS subscription and get Virtual Building Explorer as a gift. DEAL 3: Buy any commercial ArchiCAD upgrade and an ArchiPLus subscription and
All new users I work with invariably ask me a question followed by a request. Is there a list of all the keyboard shortcuts? Yes; go to Work Environments, Shortcut Schemes, Keyboard Shortcuts, click Show Shortcut List in Browser. Once they see the seven pages of keyboard shortcuts, the following request is made: You should make a list of the most important shortcuts. Three years later… done. Some of these
One of the promises of BIM is to help us architects spend more time designing and less time documenting. The lion-share of our fees are typically on construction documentation. Wouldn’t it be more fun if we spent 80% of our time designing instead? That’s what BIM promises. Material take offs, energy modeling, facilities management are all great. But if we can keep refining our designs until we have a solution
Paste in Reference Location is an option I never noticed until recently and it’s surprisingly useful. I had structural information form another file that I needed to copy into place. Essentially I was referencing in an updated structural main level plan underneath an outdated one. I pasted the updated info in the story below, but offset 100′. The reason for this was to keep the new information completely separate from
Graphisoft is hosting a webinar on Teamwork 2 and how it facilitates collaboration. You can learn more and register here: Bridging Continents – Online BIM Collaboration around the World And watch a nice 35 second trailer here.
A former colleague of mine, who was in the process of starting her own one-person firm, told me “I never liked drafting, I’m hoping to get someone else to do that.”
I’ve been a bassist for over 20 years (over two-thirds of my life). As college approached and I was deciding what to do with my life, I had two options: professional musician or architect. Much of my life could be described as a balancing act between musician and architect. The tipping point from one to the other happened during my junior year of college, though I didn’t notice it for
Graphisoft is running a promotion through December 15th, 2010. Buy ArchiCAD 14 with a subscription and get EcoDesigner as a bonus! You can see the full promo details here. E-mail or call me if you are interested or have any questions.
