How Twitter can teach you ArchiCAD
October 3, 2014
How does one go about learning ArchiCAD? Joining Twitter to follow one particular ArchiCAD guru is a good start.
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Ten Years of ArchiCAD Talk Forum
October 24, 2013
I can’t believe that the ArchiCAD Talk Forum is ten years old. That’s amazing. As is the fact that many of the original experts are still active. Thank You!
ArchiCAD Heroes
August 6, 2012
Shoegnome would never have existed if I wasn’t such a huge fan of Onland.info. I’ve gushed over James Murray’s blog before. He stopped updating his site about the time I started writing mine, so I feel a responsibility to carry the torch he held for so many years. Most of his 679 posts are still just as relevant now as they were when James wrote them. When I was teaching
All the Changes in ArchiCAD 16 that we love, but won’t be Advertised
July 30, 2012
There are a lot of little tweaks in every version of ArchiCAD that don’t get top billing. Or any billing at all. Yet some of these changes are huge and exciting for us nerdy, obsessive users. There is a great list (started by ArchiCAD Hero Link Ellis) from last year on the ArchiCAD forum detailing all these unannounced changes for ArchiCAD 15. I wrote a post about it. Discover both
BIM Components and the ArchiCAD Facebook Page (and Pacifiers)
July 23, 2012
Today ArchiCAD posted a comment on their facebook page: Do you have object ideas to expand the available GDL content on BIMcomponents.com? Let us know in a comment here! Some of your wishes will be programmed by professional GDL developers and shared with all of you through the BIMcomponents.com portal. We are looking for objects that cannot be found in the standard ArchiCAD library. Just comment with a concise description
Adventures in GDL – guest blogger Jeroen de Bruin talks about being a GDL Specialist
August 28, 2011
My adventure started after finishing a bachelor in architecture and working in several architects’ offices. I found that drafting in 2D really annoyed me: First draw the floor plan, then the elevations, manually add in shadows… and then the architect changes the design and you start over again. Those painstaking hours of checking if the elevation matched the floor plan… If only there had been an ArchiCAD feature like Trace
ArchiCAD School 2012/2013 in the USA?
August 14, 2011
There’s been a lot of talk on LinkedIn about trying to do an ArchiCAD School similar to the Spring / Summer / Winter Schools that are done in Europe. What level of interest is there for doing one in the United States and/or Canada sometime in 2012 or 2013? I’ve created a poll on the forum. Take a moment and vote. And then add your voice to the discussion on
All the Changes in ArchiCAD 15 that we love, but won’t be Advertised
July 28, 2011
Most of us have read about ArchiCAD 15 on the ArchicadWiki. If you want a refresher, read this and also the official changes guide. Many of us are even using ArchiCAD 15 on a daily basis and enjoying the new features like the shell tool and the 3D editing planes. But have you also read this list from the forum: Undocumented Changes in V15. There are a lot of little
Do You remember when the Explore Model method of navigating in 3D first appeared?
July 20, 2011
While doing some research for an article I wrote for ArchiMAG, I found an amazing forum post from the release of version 10. Take a quick walk down memory lane. It’s too bad Graphisoft took out that functionality with the first ArchiCAD 10 hotfix. It was a fun few weeks. I still miss those options. By the way, my article should be in the fall ArchiMAG issue and has almost
A great Spanish language ArchiCAD Blog (don’t worry Google Translate is here to help)
June 5, 2011
Last week I tweeted (@https://shoegnome.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1d-2d-3d-intersection.webp) and posted on facebook (www.facebook.com/https://shoegnome.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1d-2d-3d-intersection.webp) a link to an old post I did. Here it is. It was a short post about two things. There were some great tips from the ArchiCAD Forum. Real little gems that have increased my effectiveness in ArchiCAD tremendously. I can’t believe I lived without these tricks for so many years. Go back to the old post, follow the links,
Rabbit Hole Blog
February 9, 2011
Okay. Time to learn GDL. Check out Rabbit Hole Falling into GDL. It’s a new blog with a beautiful name by ArchiCAD-Talk regular Erich. It was started just last month (January 2011). There are only 3 posts so far, but they are good and clear. I’m not sure I could handle more than a few blog posts a month about GDL. My brain might explode. I need to start using
Paintings and Frames
January 3, 2011
There are a couple ways to hang a picture in an ArchiCAD project. There is an object which I can never find in the library when I look for it. There’s also the object mentioned in this forum post. My preferred solution is to place a wall that is as wide, deep, and high as the desired frame (say 2′-11 1/2″ x 4′-8″ x 1″). Then place a niche into
When did that happen? / I forgot about that!
October 20, 2010
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
Dashed Lines, Crazy Ramps, and Trees
September 1, 2010
The other users on the ArchiCAD-Talk Forum never cease to surprise and amaze me. There’s so much to be learned from them. Here’s my three favorite posts from the past few days. Dashed Lines on adjoining slabs I never knew ArchiCAD could model this, let alone in so many ways Take that SketchUp! And this too!
5 Minutes on the Forum makes us all (look) Smart
July 21, 2010
Take a few minutes and check out the techniques mentioned on this post as well as this one on the ArchiCAD-Talk forum. I highly recommend setting up a keyboard shortcut for the command mentioned in the second post. I have set mine to ‘[‘. It’s fast, easy, and I can’t believe I lived without it all these years. I’ll talk more about my tangential comments within that second thread next week.