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 Essentially I was referencing in an updated structural main level plan underneath an outdated one.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.
I finally started a project in version 14 today. It’s probably more accurate to say I got distracted from working on my first version 14 project and spent time transferring over my version 11 template. The task is a little more daunting than I expected because I’m jumping so many versions. So I’m going to forge ahead on this project and develop the template as I go. I expect to
Graphisoft has produced a very informative white paper on BIM Collaboration. It nicely shows the differences and advantages of the three basic types of BIM file sharing (which could be extrapolated to the original Teamwork, Revit’s new Revit Server, and ArchiCAD’s Teamwork 2). Here’s the white paper. It’s definitely worth reading.
I’ll be giving a presentation about ArchiCAD to the AIA-MN Members in Transition group on Thursday 10/14/10 @ 4 pm at the AIA-MN office in International Market Square. If you can’t make it but are interested, give me a call or e-mail me.
