Posted: January 21st, 2011 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup, Short Posts | | No Comments »
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. It would be nice.
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Posted: January 12th, 2011 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup | Tags: Events | No Comments »
Date:
Wednesday January 26, 2011 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM |
Location:
SALA, Minneapolis
In January we’re inviting students from the UofM to join us. This will be a great opportunity for professionals and students to share insights about ArchiCAD. If there’s anything specific you’d like to discuss, feel free to e-mail me beforehand. Or just come and ask.
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Posted: December 19th, 2010 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Long Posts, Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup | Tags: BIMx, Complex Profile, Find & Select, Rendering | 2 Comments »
Although the meeting was focused on new users, there were some great questions and discussions that have value for all users. As in most of our meetings, a fair amount of time was spent discussing complex profiles. For anyone who's not using complex profiles to their breaking point: get to it! Scott Newland shared a project and showed off some of the ways he was using them. One example, using 2 complex profiles, was a very elegant solution for an existing chimney on a house in Texas he's remodeling. Also in the Texas project was an example of merging multiple documents and file types into ArchiCAD. [Read More...]
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Posted: November 21st, 2010 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup | Tags: Events | No Comments »
Our next Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group is Monday December 13th, 2010 at SALA Architects in Minneapolis (6:30-8:30 pm). We're having a special Usergroup meeting in December. It's going to be all about the basics. This meeting will be ideal for: - New Users - Prospective Users interested in switching to ArchiCAD - Coworkers who don’t use ArchiCAD, but want to know more about it - Experienced users looking to brush up on the essentials or who just want to share RSVPing isnt' necessary, but appreciated. And as always bring anything you want to share and any questions you might have. [Read More...]
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Posted: November 14th, 2010 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Long Posts, Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup | Tags: Cabinetry, Dimensions, Export to dwg | 3 Comments »
We had a good turn out last week for our 9th Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup. To celebrate a full year of meetings we had pizza (thanks, Graphisoft). We covered a lot of topics at this meeting. Many of them--like Solid Element Operations, two recent projects I'm working on, pen sets, complex profiles, and template development--deserve their own blog posts. So here are a few of the topics that we discussed that are more compact: Someone in the group had been having an issue opening dwgs from ArchiCAD in SketchUp. It turns out that he was publishing the dwgs from Layout Book and not the View Map. [Read More...]
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Posted: November 2nd, 2010 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup | Tags: Events | 2 Comments »
Our next Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group is Tuesday November 9th, 2010 at SALA Architects in Minneapolis (6:30-8:30 pm). November's meeting will cover a wide variety of topics that have been suggested at recent meetings and subsequent e-mails. Some of those topics are SEO, template development, Version 14, pen sets, and schedules. We'll see how much we can cover. And as always bring anything you want to share and any questions you might have. We'll have a projector and at least one machine with AC11-14. If there's anything specific you'd like to learn about, feel free to e-mail me beforehand. [Read More...]
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Posted: October 13th, 2010 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Long Posts, Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup | Tags: Challenge | No Comments »
I went to the September AIA BIM Breakfast. As anyone who's talked to me about BIM knows, I'm a big fan of this group. We were all supposed to bring examples of BIM requirements so we could discuss how they impact the project delivery process. Twenty people attended. One person brought in an example for a new prison facility. The BIM requirements for this project (when various levels of modeled content were required and what digital deliverables were asked for) felt easily attainable. I had assumed, incorrectly, that the institutional and commercial worlds were far ahead of residential architects [Read More...]
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