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Architectural Technologist – Brick coursing

November 7, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

Brick coursing
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I always take a photo of any job I have to survey to measure just how many bricks there are the the set measure. in this case it was 6 courses to 420mm so any photo I have taken of the exterior, I can get a pretty good idea of heights of window cills, what ever, even eaves heights.

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Architectural Technologist – Secret knocks

November 7, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

I just thought that this little video was, well kinda cool, I can see many flaws in the technology, but put that aside, its a neat little gizmo……..

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Architectural Technologist – Convert to lines

November 2, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

SEATTLE - FEBRUARY 8: Conner Edwards of Seatt...
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Tom Greggs, of the Convert to lines podcast for Vectorworks users in Seattle, has published an updated podcast on the site, this months content:

In this issue:
• What’s up with our meeting schedule?
• NNA comes to Seattle to demo V. 2010
• Why Unified View in V. 2010 is or isn’t important
• Get to know Steve S.
• Tag Ends
• Upgrading: What’s in it for me?

Very kind of Tom to give the Konstrukshon weblog a mention

Tom  mention an NNA video describing Unified View, its a Quicktime video, I’// try to embed below. it seems to work, but little or no control, I had to double click to get it going. so you might like to link with the above.

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Architectural Technologist – Translate

November 2, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

White-vented Storm-Petrel (Oceanites gracilis)
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I seem to be finding a number of interesting site, that are not in English, and have found that Firefox has some interesting plugins to help translate these quite successfully, with little of no effort from me. Check out the video below

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Architectural Technologist – Running on air

October 22, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

Thales, the earliest researcher into electricity
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Ok so this sound a bit far fetched, but there are some serious high brain thinkers looking at compressed air for cars rather than using electricity, It solve the basic battery problem and all the pollution they cause. So is it time to look at it for construction and running certain items about the house, may be, read the article in The Ecconomist and see just what they have to say, I fr one think it’s a great idea. PV cells running smalll compresors, to store energy !

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Architectural Technologist – Back from Hols

October 22, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

Northumberland, as its boundaries are today, s...
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Hope you all missed me, Sorry I did not let you know, but decided to take last minute hols to Northumberland to see the Holy Island, Hadrian’s Wall and other delights. But back now with loads of photos and items to talk about. Plus Its interbuild and I intend to go for the last day ie Wednesday, and have a wonder about. So more photos and I hope a few interviews.

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Architectural Technologist – Climate change

October 12, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

le lac à Vesoul
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Want to know why you should be doing all you can to prevent the climate getting any worse, then log onto the extreme Ice Survey site and watch what they are doing and view some of the results. The technology is not a bad subject to look at either. Cameras that can withstand 160 mph winds and temps of -40 C and can take more than 4000 images per year.

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Architectural Technologist – Wall Insertion Options for Symbols Vectorworks 2010

September 28, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

lost in the fog lagoon
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Again as we wait for 2010 to ship, why not have a look at some of the new features, this one is from Jon Pickup of Archoncad, its a small but useful tip to control the insertion point of any object. Now talking with Jon this morning, he tells me that as soon as we have all upgraded to 2010, we will need to update our symbol files to take account of this new feature, and clever Jon has made a short Vectorscript tool to make this a simple one click operation, and he has allowed me to almost give it away, I will be uploading this to the download file tab as soon as I get Vectrworks 2010, for the small price of your email address., keep looking out for updates on this over the next week or so.

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Architectural Technologist – Microsoft Surface Demo @ CES 2008

September 21, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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I think this is one piece of Technology, we should all be looking at, its well,,,,,, see for your self, I have watched this twice and each time I can see great new applications for Architecture and the detailing of buildings,. Microsoft is not one of my favourite companies, I don’t have any of their software on any of my machines, but this is truly amazing and I could well be tempted if the price comes into my area of affordability.

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Architectural Technologist – Free Vectorworks plants for VectorWorks – v12, 2008, 2009

September 9, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

Vectorworks 12 tree fern free
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I had a link from Jon Pickup of Archoncad recently, he has just converted some existing plans available on envirographics to Vectorworks fomat, they are for the hot climates, but might be a nice addition to any library if you want to show an exotic plants. As far as I know there are two available, Callistemon Kings Park Special, and a fern, see photo. both are free to download. which are alo available in Photoshop, Archicad, Sketchup and a couple more formats.

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