A brief history of living rooms and their televisions
December 5, 2016
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.
iPad
GRAPHISOFT’S BIMx and BIMx PRO Now Offer Extended Cloud Storage Access
June 22, 2015
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
May 13, 2015
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.
February 24, 2015
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
April 15, 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.
April 11, 2014
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
October 21, 2013
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
October 20, 2013
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 future of BIM, you need to check BIMx docs out.
The Structure Sensor for iPad and a game I want to play with my kids (or older brothers)
October 2, 2013
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?
August 6, 2013
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 it for me. And I don’t like stubbornness when it comes to expanding our understanding of what it means to be an architect in the 21st century. I’ve already tried
Digital over Paper Documents: This is Solvable
May 10, 2013
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 inflexible, so 20th Century. We can do better. Why do we cram as many sections or details as possible on a sheet? We do this to save paper, to go
Orthograph 4.0
December 19, 2012
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 had some time to play around with Orthograph 4.0 and so far I’m quite happy. It definitely lives up to the assumptions I made in my
Let’s Dream a little about Orthograph Architect
October 11, 2012
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 this not-so-little-anymore app has gotten since it was released in November 2011 (less than a year ago!). Now I don’t have an iPad, so I haven’t personally explored it yet.
OrthoGraph gets +1 dimension
May 17, 2012
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 of all graphical elements, so you will be able to switch between different object types, finishes, etc. directly from 3D. The new version is going to be released
OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module SE has launched
December 15, 2011
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 Architect for iPad (39.99 euros). OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module SE lets you import 50 rooms per file from the iPad directly to ArchiCAD–which is bigger than any house I’ve ever
OrthoGraph ArchiCAD Import Module has been unleashed
November 3, 2011
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 native “.srvd” file format. The current beta version supports the conversions of up to 5 rooms with full functionality from drawings made using the iPad version of OrthoGraph. This
OrthoGraph Architect for the iPad has been released!
November 1, 2011
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 copy and try it out. But then I also need to get an iPad… 9/27/2011 – Nuremberg, Germany – InterGEO exhibition – The first professional iPad compatible bulding survey software