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Architectural Technologist – Be2camp@WorkingBuildings2009

October 22, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

now & then
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I attended the Brum Be2camp event, recently and deeply regret not being able to attend the London show 7-8 October 2009, but a lot of the daily presentations are online at the Be2camp web site Have a wonder about, the site, the actual videos are often quite dark or grainy, but there all free and well worth viewing.

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Architectural Technologist – Interbuild

October 22, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

Tamsin Slatter setting up on the Vectorworks stand
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Is this the way to spend a morning, did I get what I wanted from my visit to interbuild, not a chance, it was the most poorly set up and badly attended show I have ever been to, is it a result of the market place, or are manufacturers looking for alternative ways to spend their advertising money. A little of the alternatives and a huge pinch of the market conditions I think, but overall I thought it was a particularly huge waste of my time. Perhaps the only redeeming feature was the IT area, and the CU stand, were I managed to see the Vectorworks 2010 presentation from Tamsin Slatter.

Can I claim any CPD, well yes, but not a lot, I did see some products that might just qualify, such as a very poor stand on solar PV panels with a chap so board, no thinking on it, I will not claim any CPD from this trip.

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Architectural Technologist – Vectorwork offset tool video from Archoncad

October 16, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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I have seen Jon Pickup use this several times since the release of Vectorworks 2010, and I think it’s realy useful trick to know, so I and very pleased that Jon has made another short video to show the offset tool working.

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Architectural Technologist – Vectorworks Archoncad training

October 16, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

Population growth of European countries
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Is it that time of the month already, Jon Pickup of Archoncad has just sent me this months invite to his short sharp training, there is one specifically for Europe, ie the times good but I can’t make it so I am attending the Friday night session, (16th Oct 2009) a bit late but its one of those must attend trainings.

The topic this month is Vectorworks 2010. Should you upgrade? Vectorworks now upgrades on an annual cycle, so every year we look at the new version. ONLY you can decide if the upgrades are worth it, but I wanted to show you as much as I can to help you decide. There are some fantastic new features, and some that look small, but i think will save you a lot of time and aggravation.

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Architectural Technologist – Blog action day 15th October 2009

October 12, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

اشتاق
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This blog is in support of Blog action day, 2009 and climate change, now this site is alway putting items up for climate change, and if you search for climate change you will see all items connected with this subject.

Perhaps the biggest item I can see embracing climate change is the smart grid and PV cell technology

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Architectural Technologist – Vectorworks printing two sheet layers side by side

October 12, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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I saw a twitter recently on the subjects of printing two Vectorworks sheet layers side by side, and thought I would do a short video to  show how I would do it. Why you might ask do it this way, well perhaps you want to give an exhibition of your work and show two or even three sheets on a continuous banner . My method is simple and it works, with the least amount of bother.

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Architectural Technologist – iPhone stand

October 12, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

iPhone stand 2
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Ok so this is not Architectural CPD, but its one of those neet little tips that just makes life easy, and this stand for the iPhone is so simple to make, the author Jason Fitzpatrick,   uses plastic acrylic sheet, but I used a piece of card from an amazon book delivery, its quite still and did the job just as well. I suppose if you really want 10 mins of CPD you could draw out the profiles ,print to an A4 sheet and cut out, but that’s really grabbing time.

The photo today is the one i made, it works, don’t mock ! more photos on the flickr site

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Architectural Technologist – AATO & CIAT sign Memorandum of agreement

October 12, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

Eaves Detail to barn 4
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I was particularly pleased today, to see that the AATO & CIAT have signed a memorandum of agreement to promote mutual recognition of qualifications and experience. This is one of the most important leaps our profession has made, and I hope we will see more such links in the future, to establish the practice of Architectural Technology around the globe.

A full article can be seen in this month AT magazine, As of this morning a PDF copy of the current issue is not yet on the CIAT web site, but past issues are available here.  Whilst your reading the issue, have a look at Keith Snook HonMCIAT RIBA director of Research and Technical excellent review of BIM igniting imagination creating success published by Autodesk,

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Architectural Technologist – HTML5

October 12, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

Vectorworks 12 tree fern free
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OK so this is not Architecture, it’s all about the web and the new html 5 standard, but watch the video below, its all about the new features you will be seeing this year, and I think it opens the way for some very cool applications which are browser based, such as CAD programs, Autocad, we have een recently is looking at this, and others will go, it opens up a lot of interesting ways to share drawings, map, and other web pages. Its also about presentation and thats of interest to us all, every practice should have a web page with cad and video’s of current and past projects.

Click on the video and see the google youtube video see how wide and big it is, is this a new screen !

The video is not short at about an hour long, but stick with it, its interesting and will allow you to see were the browsers are heading.

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Architectural Technologist – MIT Open coursework – Introduction to Design Computing

October 2, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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I saw this course  on Introduction to Design computing today and thought, why not have a look its free and the MIT name means is of a certain standard, plus the course notes, well most of them are there for downloading in pdf format.

This course will introduce students to architectural design and computation through the use of computer modeling, rendering and digital fabrication. The course focuses on teaching architectural design with CAD drawing, 3-D modeling, rendering and rapid prototyping. Students will be required to build computer models that will lead to a full package of architectural explorations with computers. Each semester we will explore the design process of a particular building type and building material.

The course also investigates a few design processes of selected architects. The course is critical of design principles and building production methods. Student assignments are graded based on the quality of design, representation and constructability. Great design input is always encouraged.

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