High school students from across the United States recently put their ArchiCAD knowledge to work as they competed in the first annual National LEED Dream Home contest, sponsored by Arizona based STEM curriculum developer, the CAD Academy. The CAD Academy®, is a secondary and post-secondary pre-engineering and pre-architectural program designed to inspire a new generation...
Tuesday May 7th was a busy day for me. With the announcement of ArchiCAD 17, I was posting on my own blog, jumping between Twitter and Facebook, fielding questions, writing e-mails, and finally starting the ArchiCAD 17 blog posts I’d been wanting to write for months and months. As an aside, if you’re anywhere near...
Speakers up for this video! Set to a really cool music bed that will keep your Friday moving – the video highlights new functionality found in ArchiCAD 17. Working in this version of GRAPHISOFT BIM Software will have you take a new approach to modeling. No more stacking slabs instead of using composite structures –...
Dowco Technology Services, Ltd., with offices in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec is the newest, official GRAPHISOFT Value Added Reseller. Dowco is a Construction Technology company specializing facilitating software solutions for Contractors, Architects, Engineers, Project Managers, and more. The company offers ArchiCAD to its clients in recognition of the software’s ability to give design control while...
If you’re just joining us, here’s Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series. I think this is the last post on hyperlinks, for now. We’ve already covered internal links Let’s now look at two ways to connect the documents to the wider digital world. The PDFs created from ArchiCAD are smart. We’ve...
This is Part 3 in my series on hyperlinks in ArchiCAD. Although I think it’s better to say Part 3 in my series on creating Powerful Digital Documents from ArchiCAD. Here are links to Part 1 and Part 2. I’m sure there are many examples of how powerful a PDF set created correctly from a...
GRAPHISOFT announced the next version of ArchiCAD – a BIM software solution that makes it possible to pay attention to the smallest detail, bringing the model to life throughout every phase of design. GRAPHISOFT has developed a powerful modeling tool that can handle even the most complex designs. More than a compatibility update – ArchiCAD...
In the previous post we talked about hotlinked markers in your multi-page PDFs. Today let’s talk about some other implications and possibilities of a multi-page PDF created from the Publisher in ArchiCAD. Imagine you’re laying out your sheets to work well digitally first, and print second. Instead of putting as many drawings on a sheet...
Did you know that the PDF sets you have been printing for years are WAY more powerful than you ever knew? In fact, after reading this series of posts, you might stop printing physical sets altogether. Well that might be a little extreme, but you’ll WANT to stop printing sets— and not just because you...
GRAPHISOFT is proud to be a sponsor of an upcoming event in Austin, TX on May 9th. The event, presented by AIA Austin, in connection with ARCHITECT magazine, offers a workshop that focuses on integrative design. Design standards and procedures can often become cluttered with redundant and inefficient systems when handled through sequential and discreet steps...
Did you know there is more than one type of ArchiCAD license? For whatever personal reasons this is on my mind recently. So let’s talk about license and key types. And yes I admit this is more nerdy than day-to-day helpful. Nevertheless, I think you’ll enjoy the post and learn a thing or two. First...
ArchiCAD Receives IFC Certification 2.0, Passes buildingSMART alliance 2013 COBie Challenge GRAPHISOFT reached two important milestones in its support for Open BIM. ArchiCAD has successfully passed both IFC Coordination View 2.0 (Certification 2.0) and the buildingSMART alliance 2013 COBie Challenge. GRAPHISOFT first joined forces with buildingSMART® International and several leading software vendors to launch a global program...
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