Zombies

Pantheon of Workmonsters

In a world of https://shoegnome.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1d-2d-3d-intersection.webps, there are workmonsters… Much like I came up with the realization that I was a https://shoegnome.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1d-2d-3d-intersection.webp years before I started my company and blog, the concept of workmonsters has been floating around in my head for a long time. What are workmonsters? They are a special breed of coworkers. I have a feeling that you already understand. This is just a small sampling of archetypes.

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Locked Doors and Red Doors… guiding clients through BIMx

As I was developing my BIMx competition entry, I tried to give each room or area in the file something special. There was the zombie soldier with the axe in his back walking towards the tank, the horde of zombies in the yard, the blackened trees, the ominous sky, the burned out upper story, the hole in the floor when you enter the master bathroom that drops you down to

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BIMx Hall of Fame and MORE Zombie Screenshots

There’s now a BIMx Hall of Fame for BIMx projects with over 100 likes. This BIMx project (ZOMBIE ATTACK 2011), as of October 27th, 2011, just crossed the 100 like level to join the Hall of Fame! Click here and like it. Help share all the great and crazy things BIMx can create, like fake first person shooter games.

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BEST BIMx Screenshot ever.

Sunday night, time to share my favorite screenshot from my BIMx competition entry. Want to know how this screenshot was created? Here’s the explanation.

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This won’t help me win, but let’s not lose Miguel Krippahl’s ArchiCAD blog.

Miguel Krippahl has been blogging about ArchiCAD since October 2006. Back then I’d been using ArchiCAD for only 9 months. Miguel has decided that after blogging for so long, the BIMx competition is a turning point. If his readers don’t help him win by liking his entry, he’s going to stop blogging. If no one is willing to make the gesture, then his blog isn’t having a significant impact on

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PolyCount Add-On and Airships

In preparation for my BIMx entry, I spent some time reading up on BIMx Optimization on the ArchiCADwiki. One of the suggestions is to download the PolyCount Add-On. You can download it here. When you’re building a file for export to BIMx, paying attention to polygons is important. Two interesting things to note here. Delete everything you can’t see. For this model I deleted footings, some bathroom fixtures and trusses

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ArchiCAD + Zombies + BIMx = PURE AWESOME

Of e-mails and iPads Have you had a chance to read all the great articles about architecture-related iPad apps on ArchiCADmonkey? There are a ton of apps out there and more being announced everyday (I haven’t forgotten about you OrthoGraph). All those articles and a fortuitous e-mail from a friend in the Netherlands convinced me to enter the BIMx competition that Graphisoft is running and hopefully win myself an iPad

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