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Beautiful 3D Documents (Part 2)
This is the second part of my series on some very nice 3D Documents created by Patrick May, a residential designer and BIM Manager at Christian Gladu Design Studio. You can read the first half here. Jared Banks: What gave you the idea to do the documentation of the fireplace framing as a series of...
Beautiful 3D Documents (Part 1)
One of the many benefits of blogging about ArchiCAD is that I get to know a lot of wonderful users around the world. I keep telling myself (and my wife) that—once we start traveling again (we want our daughters to be a little older and my wife is in school through May, 2013)—there are so...
Seville Cathedral Renovation
Juliette Walckenaer, a construction engineer from Spain, created a graphic representation showing the replacement of the Seville Cathedral pillars for her final project at the University of Seville. In the clip, you can hear in Ms. Walckenaer’s flawless Spanish (don’t worry, it has subtitles!) – how she considers ArchiCAD a perfect software to work on...
Some days I don’t care about BIM; I care about diagrams
Diagrams, meet my cartoons Earlier this summer, I was reading the June 2012 issue of Architectural Review and a great diagram caught my eye. It was a 3D building section that had red arrows flying through the space, describing circulation. We’ve all seen these images before. Sometimes it’s arrows for cars or people. Other times...
3D Documents: Are They Used on 100% of Your Projects?
Here are the two Sketch Renderings that changed the way I handle documentation. Back in 2007 when I switched from ArchiCAD 9 to ArchiCAD 11, I started to explore the Sketch Rendering Engine. I very quickly fell for the Koh-I-Noor settings. Eventually I refined my images by using 11_Tech_Pencil and turning down all the noise...
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