Zones

Thanksgiving 2012 and my first week of Silence in 2 1/2 years

Last week was Thanksgiving in the United States. My wife, daughters, and I drove down to Texas to visit family, friends, and do some business (the benefits of partnering with your best friend). So my time to write was severely limited. In fact I told myself I’d skip the week and not post. It’d be my first off week in 2 1/2 years. I nearly failed. I wrote most of

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Multi-story Zones

I would love to have Zones in ArchiCAD be story sensitive. So many other element types already are. What am I talking about? This: AND this: I’m starting to use zones a lot more for various scheduling purposes (more on that soon, I promise). I’d like to have one zone for stairs, but have it show up on multiple stories. Right now my options (for a 3 story space) are

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Zonematic

Micro Aided Design, the Graphisoft Reseller in Finland, has a really cool Add-On for ArchiCAD. They actually have a couple, but Zonematic really stands out. It will create zones from a text file–which from a programing and planning standpoint is just awesome. They have both an English and a Finnish version. You can read more about it and download it for free here.

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