At SALA Architects, we’ve been using ArchiCAD since v6.5 (1999). However I didn’t join the firm until 2007, at which point I spearheaded the transition of a hodgepodge of v8.1 users following no uniform procedures to a larger number of v11 users following company wide standards. We are now approaching the next big transition period. Over the next year we’ll be moving first to version 14 and then quickly to
Are you saving a backup every day? Your answer better be yes. Data safety and organization is the subbasement/foundation of BIM. Your BIM model is only useful if it’s accessible, readable, and existent. Don’t lose your data. It’s not just about file corruption and lost computers. Projects change. And change back. A backup a day allows you to copy and paste changes back and forth between files. – about to
I got a weird error message recently. An attribute went missing. Find and Select with the criteria set to ‘element type is All and attributes are Missing’ didn’t work. It seemed likely that it was an attribute of an attribute that was bad (an image associated to a material, for instance). Thus I needed a different solution. How do you find that? Backups. And thinking about what changed. I did
How often do you back up your files? Daily? You better. Anything longer is a wrong answer. Here’s Part One of why: My brother is in IT; when I was younger he excitedly told me about a new server he’d installed. It had 7 drives in parallel. You could rip one out of the server while it was on and no data was lost. It needed to be set up
