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Year 2011

Entries 10 Total

Names: The File Name

May 19, ’11 12:57 PM

Boring but important: how the naming system works. This post dovetails with The Project Folder post.

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Profile Tip: Timber Beam

May 17, ’11 9:22 AM

A simple and useful tip from ArchiCAD talk, but perhaps more useful to inspire profile tool lateral thinking.

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Ingenhoven

May 10, ’11 11:23 AM

Who does google call for 600,000 new sf of the greenest, most sustainable building possible? Have a look.

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Best Practices: Material Schemes

May 2, ’11 12:51 AM

Material taxonomy is a big loose end in our standard template. Sigh.

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Energy Use: Infographic

Apr 8, ’11 6:42 PM

A rendering of energy flows in the United States in 2008. Lawrence Livermore Labs updates one of these each year.

Amazing and informative:

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Dieter Rams

Apr 6, ’11 3:23 PM

  1. Good design is innovative.
  2. Good design makes a product useful.
  3. Good design is aesthetic.
  4. Good design makes a product understandable.
  5. Good design is unobtrusive.
  6. Good design is long-lasting.
  7. Good design is honest.
  8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.
  9. Good design is environmentally friendly.
  10. Good design is as little design as possible.

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Door & Window Parameter Transfer Tip

Mar 30, ’11 5:58 PM

ArchiCad window and door settings – oh the granularity!

As it turns out, it is possible to transfer variable values between different objects. The usual parameter transfer techniques will move “as many variables as possible” between different library parts.

Two methods:

  1. transfer settings you like to a new default window
  2. transfer settings you like from a selected window to a new default window

More details here.

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2d Objects for Window and Door Detailing

Feb 18, ’11 2:29 PM

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Director’s Notes

Feb 16, ’11 10:03 PM

Well this is interesting. Let me tell you all the ways you can be better.

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Almost-flat Roofs

Feb 14, ’11 11:05 AM

Archicadwiki has a nice – because short and to the point – article about how to model flat or near-flat roofs using various interacting combinations of slab, mesh, and roof.

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