Bowling is the secret to BIM Mastery
Who's the better bowler? A guy who can throw perfect strike after perfect strike OR the guy who never misses picking up a spare. It's the guy who can pick up the spares. Of course 12 strikes gives you the best possible
Frustrating ArchiCAD Things That Need to be Changed: You
Okay that title is a little facetious. But you should expect that from me by now. There is a wonderful thread on LinkedIN that was started two weeks ago on the ArchiCAD Residential Designers Group. You need to be a member
More lessons from children’s TV
Don't talk about the brontosaurus in a room full of dinosaur lovers The other day on Sesame Street they did a segment on dinosaurs. They mentioned a brontosaurus. Dinosaur Train would never mention a brontosaurus. Why? Because it's not a real
One reason why your PDFs might be Huge
The difference between the 2 PDFs in this image? One fill Left without vectorial fill = 12 KB. Right with vectorial fill = 1.6 MB. This is one of those semi-secrets of ArchiCAD. 3D is better than 2D. We all know that.
Compatibility notes to ArchiCAD on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Kind of important News If you're using any version of ArchiCAD and getting excited about Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (or have already installed it). Read This. Now: http://archicadwiki.com/OsxMountainLion If you are already on Mac OS X 10.7, this is old news;
Are you a Mac User getting ready to Upgrade your Key to ArchiCAD 16? Read this first.
ArchiCAD 16 is almost here and I wish I was using it on the project I'm starting today BUT
Compatibility notes to ArchiCAD on Mac OSX Lion
Kind of important if you're using any version of ArchiCAD and getting excited about Lion (or have already installed it). Read it. Now: http://archicadwiki.com/MacOSXLion No more using any version of ArchiCAD older than version 8.1 if you go to Lion (Mac OS
A great Spanish language ArchiCAD Blog (don’t worry Google Translate is here to help)
Last week I tweeted (@shoegnome) and posted on facebook (www.facebook.com/shoegnome) 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
High / Low. You backed up, right?
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
Have You Tried Turning it Off and On Again?
Is ArchiCAD not acting properly? Object movement or 3D navigation is sluggish. The cursor keeps disappearing. Have you tried turning it off and on again? My brother is in IT and I've learned it's a truism of computers. Don't