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CAD Academy Contest Tests Student Acumen with ArchiCAD
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...
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Connecting to Non-Local Data: Hyperlinks and ArchiCAD (Part 4)
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...
A Question of Labeling: Hyperlinks and ArchiCAD (Part 3)
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...
Hyperlinks and ArchiCAD (Part 2)
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...
Hyperlinks and ArchiCAD (Part 1)
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...
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...
EcoDesigner STAR – Thermal Bridging Simulation Part 5
We’ve reached the end of our Thermal Bridging Simulation Adventure (for now). As a recap here’s post 0, post 1, post 2, post 3, and post 4. Now that we know what we’re doing, let’s go back a few steps and see how everything is easier if we make a few changes to our processes....
EcoDesigner STAR – Thermal Bridging Simulation Part 4
In case you’re just joining us on the Thermal Bridging Simulation Adventure, here’s post 0, post 1, post 2, and post 3. We’re hitting the Start Simulation Button! Finally. Doing so gives us two results which we can subsequently place as images on our detail. Here’s what my simulation generates after I place the two potential...
EcoDesigner STAR – Thermal Bridging Simulation Part 3
If you’ve been following along (post 0, post 1, post 2), we’ve got a detail that is ready to analyze. Almost. We’ve designated what’s air and what’s earth in the Thermal Bridging Simulation Window. We’ve also made sure our building is located in the right spot on the earth and set the elevation above sea...
EcoDesigner STAR – Thermal Bridging Simulation Part 2
Now that the geometry is ready (discussed here), we can actually launch the Thermal Bridging Simulation. Go to the Design/Energy Evaluation Menu and then select Thermal Bridge Simulation. If your active window is a detail, that window will be the one selected. If you’re in another view, you’ll be prompted to select which detail you...
EcoDesigner STAR – Thermal Bridging Simulation Part 1
Now we really begin our EcoDesigner STAR adventure. I see three things that we need to tackle with Thermal Bridging Simulation to feel comfortable using it on a real project and adding it to our bag of design and analysis tricks. How to use this function with our existing details. How to create new details...
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