You Can Do This!

Attend the next meeting of the Lower Mainland ArchiCAD User Group.

This month's Topic:
The Latest in LightWorks (with some Photoshop)
Ninety Minutes with Vancouver architect and public artist Dwight Atkinson, Author of "LightWorks in Archicad."

If rendering in LightWorks is a challenge, this is your chance to grill the author of yet another book Graphisoft never wrote.

See the changes in rendering tools since LightWorks was introduced in Archicad 9.

Dwight has been touring the world with his day-long seminar. You get his course overview with some tricks:

-avoiding rendering diseases like: spotty stucco and black soffit.
-sunlight and lamp behavior.
-three minute rendering.
-Materials - Looking Ahead.
-quick ways to insert your rendering into a context photo.
-your questions answered.


Don't miss this.


Dwight will have a few copies of his 208 page, full-colour book for sale - $106. including GST

Date:
April 19, 2007 | 5:30PM - 7:00 PM

Host:
Host: Craig Birston, HBH Architects

Location:
Howard Bingham Hill Architects
Suite 201
1444 Alberni Street
Vancouver, BC V6G 2Z4
CANADA
Phone#: (604) 688-8254

RSVP - info@virtual-north.com

ArchiCAD Tips & Tricks - Drawing Indexes

Updated with corrected links.

The creation of Making and Managing Drawing indexes is de-mystified in Jim Mahoney's tutorial published this week at AEC Bytes.

Find it here.

Other Tutorials in the series can be accessed from the Tips and Tricks page.

David Nicholson-Cole Returns to North America

David Nicholson-Cole is the wizard, sans-pareil, of the GDL world. No one has done more to raise awareness of what is possible with ArchiCAD Object Making Technology, nor has anyone bested his definitive tutorial on the subject - The GDL Cookbook.

I hosted one of David's 2-Day tutorials in 1982 and came away from the event a changed person. What had seemed so impenetrable and daunting started to make sense after the first day and by the end of the course I was convinced that even I - the student banned from the McGill computer labs for being 'most likely to cause an infinite loop on the mainframe' - could do this.

Commitments elsewhere have made it difficult for David to travel in recent years, so it is with great pleasure that we announce a two-day DNC Workshop will be held in Costa Mesa, April 12 & 13.

There is no better way to acquire the skills to make objects of any kind - parametric, well scripted and well-behaved. Functional and beautiful, even.

• Day 1 'Bring GDL to Life'
• Day 2 'Make the Objects You Want'

WHEN: April 12 & 13, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

WHERE: Digital Vision Office & Training Center, Costa Mesa, CA

COST: $295USD per person, one day, $495USD per person for both days.
Additional people from the same firm: $250USD for one day; $400USD for two days, per person



Contact Caitlin Leal at Digital Vision to sign up. More information is available here.

QuickTime 7.1.5 May Cause Problems with ArchiCAD 10

A recent upgrade of QuickTime (7.1.5) causes ArchiCAD to crash in various circumstances on Mac OS X 10.3. We strongly recommend not to install this QuickTime update. Once installed, it can not be down-graded or removed. The only known solution to remove QuickTime 7.1.5 is a complete system reinstall.

Mac OS X 10.4 is not affected by the problem. ArchiCAD 9 and earlier versions are also not affected. We have reported the problem to Apple. Updates on this topic (possible solution to uninstall QuickTime) will be posted on ArchicadWiki.

BIM Usage Survey

The Center for Integrated Facility Engineering or CIFE at Stanford is one at the forefront of research on BIM in design and construction.

Their research assists the overall deployment of BIM in the Construction economy.

Visit the site and participate in the ongoing survey. The link is located on the home page.

ArchiCAD User Group Meeting - April

The Lower Mainland ArchiCAD User Group is looking for a host and presenter for the April meeting. Please step up and respond in the affirmative so that we can post this event.

Experience ArchiCAD 1.0 on the Apple Lisa

Low End Mac is today profiling a project that puts the Apple Lisa onto an OS X desktop. In theory, then, it would be possible to run ArchiCAD 1.0 in all its original splendour.

ArchiCAD was developed on an Apple Lisa back in 1983. Today most Lisa's are parked in a landfill somewhere in Wyoming.

If you're keen to try this out, let us know. If you've already tried it, let us know!

Cadimage Releases Free Tools for Students

Cadimage, a third-party developer of tools for ArchiCAD, based in New Zealand, have released Free Student versions of their tools for use with all ArchiCAD Student Versions.

Door/Window Builder is a highly parametric tool for creating doors and windows of all types.

The Accessories Tool applies wall sidings, roofing, gutters and downspouts, pressure equalized rainscreens, etc., to ArchiCAD building envelopes - walls, floors, roofs, columns.

Download and register for these from this link. Manuals for each these tools can be downloaded by clicking on the hyperlinks above.

AIA eClassrom - The Building Information Model as a Collaboration Tool

Have a look at this online classroom offering from the AIA:
The link is here.