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ArchiCAD 21 – New Stair Tool

DebunkTheBIM

How about a pen -colour manager or layer selector or text aligning tool? Get out of this comfort zone of “we are the architects’ tool’’ and the ‘designed by architects for architects’, once maybe cool but now extremely dated mantra, and attack the industry head on. My dear, beloved, ArchiCAD and Graphisoft. I mean, really?

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Happy 40th Graphisoft!

DebunkTheBIM

When I started with ArchiCAD some 27 years ago, I did not think we’d grow old together. I learned to use the blimming thing and added to the knowledge over and over, wore the badge of the weirdo ArchiCAD user with pride. Let’s talk about GS and their celebratory message: “Stay focused, design more” Is that it? Yet we had.

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The “BIM Vendor” Problem? New Graphisoft-Archicad White Paper

Building Information Management

Okay, I know they are trying… “they” being major “BIM” vendors such as Autodesk/Revit…and a far second Graphisoft/Archicad. Both of these folks appear to have taken the approach to market BIM primarily to architects and as a 3D design tool. BIM is just about design? This is really too bad.

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DebunkTheBIM: Now, these are nice! (Archicad at its best)

DebunkTheBIM

I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. Archicad at its best). Design managers working in the AEC: specify what ‘ How well can you tell? (…If the drawings in front-. Archicad at its best). DebunkTheBIM. Now, these are nice! I can cut a slab with a mesh and a roof, simultaneously.

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DebunkTheBIM: Design managers working in the AEC: specify what.

DebunkTheBIM

I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. Design managers working in the AEC: specify what ‘type’ are you! Are you primarily concerned with managing the people on the project or managing the project information? DebunkTheBIM. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook.

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10 Principles of Architecture | What Is Architecture | Why Need Design Principles in Architecture

CivilJungle

Designing and decorating, selection of furnishings, having supervision for construction, and renovating or remodeling a building. Besides designing and constructing architecture deals with aesthetics. Why Need Design Principles in Architecture? There is a process on the artboard that is entangled to create a good design.

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I’m onto some rose-coloured BIM issues…and here is a tip for ArchiCAD users as a bonus

DebunkTheBIM

So let’s talk BIM, the rosy, and pink, and lemon-yellow and forest-green… For a long time I’ve been a strong advocate of proactively using colours in construction information management, often provoking condescending comments from ‘architects that wear only black’.