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I am in love with the Archicad Marquee.

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encouraging software tribalism) – here is a challenge: I’ll show you mine (Archicad marquee), you show me yours (spatial filtering device); I use the marquee a lot – to examine parts of the building I am interested in. That tells you a lot about my life I guess. Still, before you call me a hypocrite (i.e. Is this a trivial question?

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DebunkTheBIM: 'Now, that IS clever!'

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’ I thought, examining the little office-kitchen object. I found it in Archicad’s Object Depository while searching for something else. I wrote about IKEA’s example before, following the ‘bread crumbs’ of the office-kitchen object on the www took me to another: ALNO’s, built on a similar concept.

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DebunkTheBIM: A bit more of a balance would be nice.

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Pristine even, no evil promoters have managed to crack into the company’s MS Office or Outlook, nor GS’s Archicad/ Autodesk’s Revit. Now, I have to endure ‘from-subtle-to-invasive-and-anything-in-between’ attacks by the shoe and airline marketers of the world. Thankfully my work environment is safe.

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2D CAD sucks

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We should've stuck with pen & paper until a tool like Revit or Archicad or Tri-Forma came along. I am so frustrated by this, I simply want to run from my office screaming. I really truly beleive that moving to a non object based Computer Tool like 2D CAD was one of the worst things our industry ever did.

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DebunkTheBIM: The entertainment value of BIM

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Our special talents are thankfully appreciated across the engineering offices too – I often watch with delight how engineers in their thirties (unable to print PDFs on their own) mock my multi-lingual trickster-modellers behind their backs. Archicad at its best). Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G.

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The measure of a BIM infiltration coefficient for a BIM-active entity

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My contributions to my own blogs had been mooted to an almost full silence and I never upgraded to ArchiCAD 17, though I expect the launch of 18 to be soon. I now got myself a job that has nothing to do with BIM. I am staying away from most online or real-life BIM interest groups.

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BIM Objects, Data, and Information – More than a 3D Pretty Picture – Soooo Much More!

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Aside from this coordination debate, practices will also need to decide and establish office policies on where information is recorded. While the specification system has detailed guidance and links to standards, regulations and suggested values, geometric BIM software has great visualization analysis and instance scheduling functionality.

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