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.

Invisible Beams… aka Rookie Mistake… aka Expert Trick

Posted: June 26th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Long Posts | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Hidden walls and beams can cut visible elements, and not all trimming is done with SEOs or the trim to roof command. This is most often seen by new users when they don't yet understand layer intersection groups and priority numbers. Hidden elements on layers that don't have their intersection groups set to zero can cut and merge with visible objects. While this is a common rookie mistake, it can also be an expert trick. It should be noted that this is a continuation of the thoughts from last week. In last week's post, the layer intersection group of OPERATORS.RAILING matches its targets' layers [Read More...]

ArchiCAD Blogs

Posted: October 6th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Short Posts | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

There are some other very interesting things going on in the ArchiCAD blogosphere. Graphisoft has a growing list of blogs devoted to ArchiCAD here. Don't want to sift through all that? Here's three to look at first: http://www.thebimr.com/ This blog focuses on the experiences of someone in Amsterdam who is migrating his firm from AutoCAD to ArchiCAD. This should be an interesting blog to watch in the coming months. http://www.archicadmonkey.com/ Apollo has been putting together an ArchiCAD video tutorial podcast complete with an iPhone app. Someday I'll have an iPhone to watch it on. In [Read More...]