Sharing 3 ArchiCAD tutorials from the Best Practices Course

[Eric Bobrow]

This month we welcomed the 1,000th member of the Best Practices Course, architect Piotr Czerwinski of Krakow Poland.
To celebrate, I'm inviting you to my Open House!

You can view three of the ArchiCAD video training lessons from the Best Practices Course as my gift to you, and my thanks for being an ArchiCAD user.

If you'd like to watch them, be quick, since I'm going to put them back in the vault on Wednesday.
(Actually, they'll stay on the website, but only members of the course will be able to view them.)

Navigation Shortcuts and Speed Tricks
http://www.acbestpractices.com/member-home/the-course/week-14/part-4/

This 33 minute lesson runs through many methods, shortcuts and tricks for jumping quickly to specific parts of a project, using the navigation area at the bottom left of each window effectively, and options for working with multiple windows and display screens.

Advanced Site Creation: Level Dimensions, Regrading, Cut and Fill Calculations
http://www.acbestpractices.com/member-home/the-course/week-12/part-4/

This 46 minute lesson starts with the creation of a quick site model with the Mesh tool, then explores how you can set up the terrain mesh to give accurate level dimensions for both original and regraded site models, and easily do cut and fill calcs.

Coaching Call Recording - June 19, 2013 - Renovations and Remodels
http://www.acbestpractices.com/archicad-training-coaching-call-june-19-2013/

Each month we have three live webinars in which I answer member questions about ArchiCAD. This 2 hour session focused exclusively on Renovations and Remodels, starting with a general overview. If you want to really understand how to use the Renovation tools introduced into ArchiCAD 15, this is for you!

Important: These videos are only open for viewing during my Open House - watch them by Tuesday at the latest.

[Anonymous]

I'm a HUGE fan of Eric Bobrow and his live webinars. Being able to join in and have your questions answered by Eric is invaluable.

Not only do you get the chance to talk to Eric and have him help with any obstacles you might be facing, all these wibinares become available for free once your a member of The Best Practices Course.

The other benefit I'm finding is being able to download the coaching calls and store them on my mobile device, that alone is well worth becoming a member

[Eric Bobrow]

Exciting news: I just opened up another ArchiCAD training lesson you can watch free during my Best Practices Course Open House.

Due to web server issues, many people were not able to access the site earlier this week. Thankfully, it looks like we've got them resolved.

I'm extending the open house until Friday to make sure that everyone who is interested has a chance to watch these free ArchiCAD tutorials.

I've also opened up one more juicy lesson from the Best Practices Course for you to watch - my gift to you today.

Program Planning: Room and Area Lists using Fills and Zones
http://www.acbestpractices.com/member-home/the-course/week-11/part-2/

This 23 minute lesson shows how you can tabulate rooms and areas to compare against program requirements using either the Fill tool or the Zone tool.

The final section of this lesson shows some easy ways to resize rooms or entire building facades using the marquee tool. It is possible to take a concept that was sketched by eye and tighten it up so that specific or whole number dimensions are created.

One member of the Best Practices Course commented:

"At the risk of being a tiny bit dramatic, the section on adjusting room sizes with the Marquee tool may just change my life for ever! If I had known that tip a week ago…."

This lesson, along with the three others I shared earlier (see description and links elsewhere on this page), will be available to you until the Open House closes down Friday night at midnight U.S. Pacific Time.

Take a look - it may change your life too!

P.S. As part of the Open House, there are some special offers for the Best Practices Course itself. Check out the home page at http://www.acbestpractices.com and scroll down to the bottom of the page to see. The sale prices run through Friday night.