topic Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer in Collaboration with other software

Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:12:29 GMT

Hello there! I am new here. My name is Dino and I am from Croatia, Zagreb.

I finished school for Civil Engineering and I was working most time in Autocad. Once I went for "Extra learning" classes with my dad's colegue, he taught me how to work ( basics ) in Archicad, and i like it!
My plan is to finish Civil Engineer University, but I do not know do I need to know to work in Archicad because it's main is purpose for architects? Can I make bridges, roads and rail roads in archicad? What do you think is it better to expand my knowledge in Archicad ( for buildings, roads, rail roads and Bridges ) or to dismiss all that and jump to autodesk products for that purposes. Please I need some info and advices.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Richard Morrison — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:56:46 GMT

I think it is a mistake to ask (mostly) architects what you will need to be a civil engineer. You will get better information from looking at advertisements for civil engineering jobs, and talking with civil engineers.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:23:56 GMT

Im just asking will it be benificial for me to invest my time to learn Archicad and its plugins for my branchee ( Civil Engieering ) or to turn for Autodesk Products?

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Richard Morrison — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:01:13 GMT

Okay, I'll try to write more clearly. This forum is mostly architects and architecturally-oriented people. They generally do NOT have any idea what the best investment of your time is, related to civil engineering, let alone Croatia. You really need to ask this question in a Croatian civil engineers' forum.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Link — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:16:26 GMT

You should try talking to Marin Racic at 3DArt

http://www.3dart.hr/Item.aspx?Id=30

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:05:13 GMT

CroFake wrote:
Hello there! I am new here. My name is Dino and I am from Croatia, Zagreb.

I finished school for Civil Engineering and I was working most time in Autocad. Once I went for "Extra learning" classes with my dad's colegue, he taught me how to work ( basics ) in Archicad, and i like it!

Good for you..civil engineering will come in very handy
I like it too, but you might have a little more success transitioning from 2D to 3D with Vectorworks. When you move from 3D to simulations/analysis/FEM you may wish to consider Revit (AEC) or bentley (civil)

CroFake wrote:

My plan is to finish Civil Engineer University, but I do not know do I need to know to work in Archicad because it's main is purpose for architects? Can I make bridges, roads and rail roads in archicad? What do you think is it better to expand my knowledge in Archicad ( for buildings, roads, rail roads and Bridges ) or to dismiss all that and jump to autodesk products for that purposes. Please I need some info and advices.

Have you finshed or are you still studing because there is a big difference as to what is done in Uni and out in the real world.Goodluck?

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:28:01 GMT

Link wrote:
You should try talking to Marin Racic at 3DArt

http://www.3dart.hr/Item.aspx?Id=30

Cheers,
Link.

Look around mate the world is moving to MUYLTIPHYSICS WITH DATA
Comsol, Strand7, Ansys (just to name a few) while GS is stuck on SINGLE PHYSICS LOL eg Archiphysics?

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Link — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:31:58 GMT

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
Look around mate the world is moving to MUYLTIPHYSICS WITH DATA
Comsol, Strand7, Ansys (just to name a few) while GS is stuck on SINGLE PHYSICS?

Yeah that's great mate - knock yourself out.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:49:08 GMT

Link wrote:
DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
Look around mate the world is moving to MUYLTIPHYSICS WITH DATA
Comsol, Strand7, Ansys (just to name a few) while GS is stuck on SINGLE PHYSICS?
Yeah that's great mate - knock yourself out.

Cheers,
Link.

Yeh,I go to great detail/presentation in explaining to clients what opening a window does...especially when coupling contaminant tracing

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:06:59 GMT

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
Link wrote:
DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
Look around mate the world is moving to MUYLTIPHYSICS WITH DATA
Comsol, Strand7, Ansys (just to name a few) while GS is stuck on SINGLE PHYSICS?
Yeah that's great mate - knock yourself out.

Cheers,
Link.
Yeh,I go to great detail/presentation in explaining to clients what opening a window does...especially when coupling contaminant tracing

Since you clearly don't like Archicad, may I ask what you are doing on this forum?

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:38:44 GMT

Rlcosta wrote:
DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
Link wrote:
Yeah that's great mate - knock yourself out.

Cheers,
Link.
Yeh,I go to great detail/presentation in explaining to clients what opening a window does...especially when coupling contaminant tracing
Since you clearly don't like Archicad, may I ask what you are doing on this forum?

Well, I would like it much better if they started developing the program the way it should be developed... HTH

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:58:19 GMT

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
Rlcosta wrote:
DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
Yeh,I go to great detail/presentation in explaining to clients what opening a window does...especially when coupling contaminant tracing
Since you clearly don't like Archicad, may I ask what you are doing on this forum?
Well, I would like it much better if they started developing the program the way it should be developed... HTH

Ok I'll bite....I'm guessing your not an architect....I don't recall a project that the design was immediately influenced by finite state maths...feel free to add an example.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:25:45 GMT

Rlcosta wrote:

Ok I'll bite....I'm guessing your not an architect....I don't recall a project that the design was immediately influenced by finite state maths...feel free to add an example.

Yep, Not an Architect...I am A Design Engineer (Civil,Construction, Geotech and Environmental)
The bar has been lifted and all in good time...

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:14:11 GMT

Please do not feed Trolls.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Barry Kelly — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:30:14 GMT

OK I think we will leave this conversation there.

If anyone has anything relevant to add about using Archicad for Civil Engineering then please continue to post.

Barry.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:25:08 GMT

I called 3D ART and guy said to me that for roads, railroads "best" program is All plan and for buildings archicad. Well I have in plan to learn archicad first then All plan or maybe someone has better advice which product ( maybe from Autodesk ) to learn in which i can make roads, railroads and bridges?

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:34:30 GMT

For ROADS and RAILROADS I suggest you to use "Plateia 2015" and "Ferrovia 2015" (made by CGS plus d.o.o. Slovenia) which runs on AutoCAD and BricsCAD Pro.

http://www.cgsplus.com/Software.aspx

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Erwin Edel — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:12:22 GMT

I have a purely architectural engineering background, but my gut feeling would be that ArchiCADs toolset isn't what you would look for in civil engineering tasks.

I'm sure you would be able to get results, but it would not be a very productive efficient route.

As suggested by others: have a look at online job descriptions or find a community dedicated to civil engineering. The more local, the better.

I think Bentley is pretty popular along side AutoDESK in the civil engineering community.

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:47:08 GMT

CroFake wrote:
I called 3D ART and guy said to me that for roads, railroads "best" program is All plan and for buildings archicad. Well I have in plan to learn archicad first then All plan or maybe someone has better advice which product ( maybe from Autodesk ) to learn in which i can make roads, railroads and bridges?

Our university here has just changed from Revit and done a deal with Bentley because of Stand7 FEM (deal broker). The next big move hopefully will be to Comsol due to its app developing capabilities, you are better off giving in and linking with them,as no one uses NAG products down under.

http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/8718/Application-Builder-Launched-with-COMSOL-Multiphysics-50.aspx

LOL, love the reference to the Solar BBQ Design (Thats gold)
HTH

Re: Archicad for Civil Engineer

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:55:38 GMT

That's typical... LOL, when challenged run off and have a sook and then delete posts.
If thats your response then your clients are going to be very disappointed with YOU.