I love working in the BIM environment and helping other architects work in a smarter, more efficient manner. I started using ArchiCAD in 2006, founded the Minnesota ArchiCAD Usergroup in 2009, and began blogging about ArchiCAD in 2010. I'm always looking for guest bloggers who also want to share their experiences with ArchiCAD and BIM.
Posted: August 21st, 2011 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Long Posts | Tags: Add-Ons, ArchiCAD 15, Modeling, SketchUp | 17 Comments »
Recent History Over the past few months I've made a couple of terrain models in ArchiCAD 14 and then exported them to SketchUp 8. At first this was done to figure out a way to collaborate with a fellow architect who is an avid SketchUp user. We both wanted to work in the program we knew best. After I modeled the first site it became evident that it was incredibly faster, more accurate, easier, and all around better to model the existing site in ArchiCAD rather than in SketchUp. Since then I've whipped up a few more sites in ArchiCAD to save time for the SketchUp users. Yes that's right. I now model
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Posted: April 17th, 2011 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Short Posts | Tags: Add-Ons | 1 Comment »
Frustrated that you can't copy or mirror 3D elements in section or elevation windows? Wish ArchiCAD would add zone information in sections and also automatically dimension walls, slabs, etc. in section and elevation as well? Well wait no longer.
Check out Miklós Groszeibl's impressive selection of Add-ons @ www.simpleaddon.com. You can try them free for a month and then purchase any or all of them for an amazingly low price.
Miklós is an ArchiCAD user who also loves to program in his free time. All these Add-ons are the result of that combined passion and his desire to optimize the drawing
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Posted: January 23rd, 2011 | Author: Jared Banks | Filed under: Short Posts | Tags: Add-Ons, Zones | No Comments »
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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