Archicad for Civil Engineer

[Anonymous]

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.

[Barry Kelly]

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
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.

I did post a warning saying to keep this post on topic.

Nobody was having a sook - you post was a rhetorical comment back to another user - nothing to do with this topic so it was deleted by me.
I am nothing to do with Graphisoft so this has nothing to do with their views.
I am simply an Archicad users that saw this topic heading off into a personal attack and not relevant in any way so as moderator I was trying to keep it on track.

In hind sight I should have also deleted GraemeB's post as well - this type of post only inflames the situation.

If you have something constructive to say regarding this topic then please do.
Too many times I have seen posts degenerate into a personal tit-for-tat.
We don't need that here.
If your next post is not constructive it will be deleted too.
Please keep all posts relevant, discussing the topic in question.
This applies to all posters.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
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.

In hind sight I should have also deleted GraemeB's post as well - this type of post only inflames the situation.....

If you have something constructive to say regarding this topic then please do.

Barry.

How so.. contaminant particle flow is a major concern in perth... . HTH

[Barry Kelly]

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:

Barry wrote:

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
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.

In hind sight I should have also deleted GraemeB's post as well - this type of post only inflames the situation.....

If you have something constructive to say regarding this topic then please do.

Barry.

How so.. contaminant particle flow is a major concern in perth... . HTH

OK last warning.
I will leave this post as it is so all can see your childish reply.
If you do not have anything constructive to say then don't say anything.
Post any more like this and you will be banned.

Barry.

[vistasp]

About a year ago, Jared blogged about an engineering firm that uses ArchiCAD extensively.

http://blog.graphisoftus.com/collaboration/those-structural-engineers-using-archicad-showed-up-in-sa...

[Anonymous]

vistasp wrote:
About a year ago, Jared blogged about an engineering firm that uses ArchiCAD extensively.

http://blog.graphisoftus.com/collaboration/those-structural-engineers-using-archicad-showed-up-in-sa...

Thanks for posting the link, As a Structural Engineer/Contractor I would be questioning, design effiencies, some of those 3D details eg. connections ( masonry out of plane bending?), Photos, etc and would be asking for the comparisons/costs/data/analysis.Other than that some of my clients refuse to pay the +30% for BIM details,+ 50% analysis, on residential unless there is synergy along the entire supply chain.
IMO LOL (no cigar) thats not CIVIL ENGINEERING
Ill see if I can put up some examples of my work that illustrate the above. HTH

[vistasp]

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
IMO LOL (no cigar) thats not CIVIL ENGINEERING

Hey, no problem. I don't smoke.

The article illustrates ArchiCAD being used in an unconventional way. You'd have to chart your own course -- if such a course exists.

[Anonymous]

I was at my university yesterday Talking to the Built Environment guys- BIM dept. The clean out they undertook a few years ago has yeilded an amazing transformation and the research work is REAL BIM. Basically I was surprised a once architect driven program is now run by engineers. Sadly, I found archicad relegated behind sketchup on old clunker computers?
I thinks its time for a re-assessment at GS-Archicad.
How about giving us VTK file translation as a mater of urgency
Thanks