A brief history of living rooms and their televisions
Finding the best location for a TV in my own house is a good excuse to talk about the history of living rooms-and the evolution of home entertainment.
GRAPHISOFT’S BIMx and BIMx PRO Now Offer Extended Cloud Storage Access
This isn't the GRAPHISOFT press release you wanted today, but it's still good. BIMx and BIMx PRO now have extended cloud storage access and a few other great new features.
My house is full of wires I don’t need
When a previous owner remodeled my house in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he probably thought he was creating a futuristic, high end palace.
BIMx Docs is Dead. Long live BIMx Pro.
BIMx Pro pricing explained perfectly, and simply. The pricing has been fixed. It's time to use BIMx Pro on every project. Read on
Trimble Launches SketchUp Mobile Viewer for iPad at Basecamp 2014
SketchUp Mobile Viewer is now a thing. Read the presee release and some of my thoughts about the fast evolving BIM landscape.
BIMx Docs pricing explained perfectly, well actually not really.
Are you a little confused about the BIMx Docs pricing change? I've got you covered. Check out the official press lease and my ultra clear explanation.
Live Online Seminar: Introducing BIMx Docs with Hyper-model Capability
Graphisoft has a BIMx Docs Webinar next week to introduce you to more of the details of their latest iPad app.
BIMx Docs Brings Fully Integrated BIM Projects to the iPhone/iPad
The official announcement about BIMx Docs for ArchiCAD. The future of BIM documentation arrived last week. Check out BIMx Docs by Graphisoft. The more you explore it, the more you're going to see the potential. If you are interested in
The Structure Sensor for iPad and a game I want to play with my kids (or older brothers)
It seems like new Augmented Reality devices are coming ever faster these days. Will 2014 be the year of Augmented Reality? If the Structure Sensor for the iPad is any clue, then probably.
Could a 21st century pencil be the better tool Architects are looking for?
There are a lot of architects, designers, and drafters out there that aren't convinced by my ruminations on better tools. Either they refuse to be persuaded or just feel the pencil has some ineffable qualities about it. Ineffable doesn't cut
Digital over Paper Documents: This is Solvable
We need to move away from printed documents. Not to save the forests and not to save on money, though those are nice benefits. We need to evolve beyond what we've always done because paper documents are so dumb, so
Orthograph 4.0
A few things have changed since the last time I mused about Orthograph. I got an iPad (well my wife and I bought an iPad mini for ourselves, though it's mostly hers) I got a copy of Orthograph 4.0 Orthograph 4.0 was released I've
Let’s Dream a little about Orthograph Architect
Orthograph Architect is billed as a great survey tool and, from what I can tell, it is. Furthermore, the creators of this iPad app keep adding new features like crazy; I've lost count of the number of upgrades and improvements
OrthoGraph gets +1 dimension
2012 is way more interesting than 2011 Are you familiar with Orthograph? OrthoGraph Architect for iPad (which was only released Fall 2011) is getting an upgrade: the 3D preview. This will assist surveying with the ability to reach and change the properties
OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module SE has launched
This is great news from last week. Now you can start using OrthoGraph on the iPad with direct, NATIVE export to ArchiCAD for under about 150 euros. Note, you'll need both OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module SE (99 euros) and Orthograph
OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module has been unleashed
A bit more exciting news about OrthoGraph, from their blog: Many of our users have asked and we listened. The beta version of OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module has just been released, a dedicated application for extending ArchiCAD to read OrthoGraph Architect's
OrthoGraph Architect for the iPad has been released!
So yes this official press release is about a month old, but October was a crazy month at Shoegnome World Headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. Watch the video; OrthoGraph looks FREAKING AWESOME. I'd love to get my hands on a