AIA MN BIM Breakfast Club
BIM Breakfast Club Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:30 am to 9:00 am Location:Â AIA Minnesota Office International Market Square, 275 Market Street, Suite 54, Minneapolis Discussion Topic: BIM in the Clouds Cloud computing is the new computing platform shift. The cloud is really just
Backup! Seriously. Backup.
How often do you back up your files? Daily? You better. Anything longer is a wrong answer. Here's Part One of why: My brother is in IT; when I was younger he excitedly told me about a new server he'd installed. It
Eric Bobrow wants to make you Better
Many of you have probably heard of Eric Bobrow. He's the guy behind ArchiCAD Master Template. Eric was a major Graphisoft reseller for 21 years and is now focused on improving our ArchiCAD skills. Eric has put together
Rabbit Hole Blog
Okay. Time to learn GDL. Check out Rabbit Hole Falling into GDL. It's a new blog with a beautiful name by ArchiCAD-Talk regular Erich. It was started just last month (January 2011). There are only 3 posts so far, but
From Scott’s Bathroom to SketchUp to ArchiCAD
At the Usergroup meeting in January we talked about working between SketchUp and ArchiCAD. You can read the recap here. Scott Newland of Newland Architecture (digress for a moment and check out his website) wasn't able to attend the meeting,
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
MNAUG #11 Recap
Winter Usergroup meetings in Minnesota are an adventure--snow, ice, sub-zero temperatures. I'm always so glad to see a mixture of new and old faces make the trip. This month, even with a location snafu, we had about 1/3 newcomers. Below
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
January Usergroup Location Change
Unfortunately we ran into some complications and couldn't get a room at the UofM for our meeting. No worries. We'll just meet at the offices of SALA Architects in Minneapolis. I'll work on getting us onto campus in the future.