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Architectural visualization live online seminar

3/4/2013

"Architectural visualization live online seminar"

Graphisoft has announced their next live online webinar and the subject is one close to my heart.

In my career I have been using ArchiCAD since version 6.5 for mainly design development and documentation. Between working hours and lost sleep, I would take my ArchiCad documentation model and love to spend long leisurely hours setting up lighting and materials, placing furniture, landscaping, etc and rendering my projects. Some rare occasions the rendering was on commission for a client, but mostly it was to satisfy my itch to create beautiful renders.

This "extra work" was partly an outlet for a neglected part of my being while mostly spending time on documentation of the next and the next project. Make no mistake, I love doing well documented and detailed drawings and specifications, but fiddling with render materials, backdrops, furniture and landscaping to dress up my model to near perfection is more like a "love sport" than a job. Hours of mindless dreaming and "free flight" of the creative spirit.

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Migrate from ArchiCAD-7 to ArchiCAD-15

23/9/2011

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This is to help you Migrate your ArchiCad 7 project to ArchiCad 15.

In a case like this the handling of a) Libraries, b) Modules, c) Linked External files & d) Attributes is curtail to the successful migration.

With the instructions below you will open and save the project with the ArchiCAD 10 Packages and then open it in ArchiCAD 15

These steps will apply as example for a solo project with no linked modules or linked DWG / PDF / image files:

1.     Download & install “ArchiCAD 10 Packages - open files from version 6.5 and ArchiCAD 7.0 Packages “ http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/downloads/Fileconverter.html
2.     Open the installed “ArchiCAD 10 “ and on the menu go to File/Open then Browse & select your ArchiCad 7 project Click OPEN
3.     The Library Manager will open. Browse to the ArchiCad 7 Library on your computer / server and Add it to the library list

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Best Practice: Archicad and Pens & Pensets

11/5/2011

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While training new users and some times experienced users that might have learned the long way (self taught by trail-&-error), I find myself having to spend some time helping users to get this right: How should I use the pens & pensets in ArchiCad correctly?

Some users struggle with this in the beginning because ArchiCad works with pens rather different than other 2D / CAD and 3D / BIM software products. I do not mind focusing on this aspect when needed at all, because everything in ArchiCad changes from struggling to "plain sailing" once you grasp this different but rather simple concept.

The easiest way for me to explain this to you in shortest terms is to refer to this section below in ArchiCad’s Help Menu ("HELP> Configuration > Attributes > Pen Sets > Predefined Pen Sets for Specific Functions"):

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Architectural visualization live online seminar

"Architectural visualization live online seminar"

Migrate from ArchiCAD-7 to ArchiCAD-15

Best Practice: Archicad and Pens & Pensets

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