Unfortunately we ran into some complications and couldn’t get a room at the UofM for our meeting. No worries. We’ll just meet at the offices of SALA Architects in Minneapolis. I’ll work on getting us onto campus in the future. It would be nice.
Date: Wednesday January 26, 2011 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Location: SALA, Minneapolis In January we’re inviting students from the UofM to join us. This will be a great opportunity for professionals and students to share insights about ArchiCAD. If there’s anything specific you’d like to discuss, feel free to e-mail me beforehand. Or just come and ask.
Although the meeting was focused on new users, there were some great questions and discussions that have value for all users. As in most of our meetings, a fair amount of time was spent discussing complex profiles. For anyone who’s not using complex profiles to their breaking point: get to it! Scott Newland shared a project and showed off some of the ways he was using them. One example, using
Our next Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group is Monday December 13th, 2010 at SALA Architects in Minneapolis (6:30-8:30 pm). We’re having a special Usergroup meeting in December. It’s going to be all about the basics. This meeting will be ideal for: – New Users – Prospective Users interested in switching to ArchiCAD – Coworkers who don’t use ArchiCAD, but want to know more about it – Experienced users looking to brush
We had a good turn out last week for our 9th Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup. To celebrate a full year of meetings we had pizza (thanks, Graphisoft). We covered a lot of topics at this meeting. Many of them–like Solid Element Operations, two recent projects I’m working on, pen sets, complex profiles, and template development–deserve their own blog posts. So here are a few of the topics that we discussed that
Our next Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group is Tuesday November 9th, 2010 at SALA Architects in Minneapolis (6:30-8:30 pm). November’s meeting will cover a wide variety of topics that have been suggested at recent meetings and subsequent e-mails. Some of those topics are SEO, template development, Version 14, pen sets, and schedules. We’ll see how much we can cover. And as always bring anything you want to share and any questions
I went to the September AIA BIM Breakfast. As anyone who’s talked to me about BIM knows, I’m a big fan of this group. We were all supposed to bring examples of BIM requirements so we could discuss how they impact the project delivery process. Twenty people attended. One person brought in an example for a new prison facility. The BIM requirements for this project (when various levels of modeled
Last night we had our 8th Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup meeting. We’re coming up on one full year of meetings (our first meeting was in October 2009)! We’ll have to celebrate at our next meeting in November. I’m thinking I’ll bring pizza for everyone. Thoughts? While the intent of the meeting was to talk about first impressions of version 14, we ended up spending the full two hours on Teamwork 2.
Our next Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group is Tuesday September 28th, 2010 at Wilkus Architects in Eden Prairie (6:30-8:30 pm). A lot of us have been using ArchiCAD 14 for the past few months and we are all going to share our experiences. We’ll also be looking at Teamwork 2 and I’ll go through some examples of Solid Element Operations. As always feel free to bring anything you want to share
