And this one too. 
And this one. 
Hello everybody,
Here's a short report from Pula (ArchiCAD Spring Academy 2010). I am the leader of the team who organised the event so if you have any additional questions, feel free to ask.
The whole event went even better than we had hoped for. Nice weather, excellent lectures and the whole community gathering atmosphere between delegates was great. It was more like a friends/colleagues reunion than an official conference.
Lectures were great, especially 3LHD's. Although they come from Croatia and have won numerous international awards (World Architecture Festival, Architectural Review etc), I am not sure that they are well known outside the region. So, whey they showed their projects, delegates were left with their mouths open. Literally.
After 3LHD, it was time for Ivan Jovanovic of BDSP with "Preliminary energy analysis" and this was a perfect example how a good presenter can make a boring subject very interesting. If you have the opportunity, go and see Ivan in action, it is well worth it.
Raoul Cenan did his TOOTH thing impressively. I had no clue that kind of things can be done in ArchiCAD. We had a few GDL experts in the audience and all of them said the same thing: they were thinking about the idea in the past, but Raoul is the first person that really did it.
Artlantis was done by Csanad Meszes from Abvent: a collection of useful tips & tricks. Nicely done.
ArchiUrban was done by the two product designers: Ivan Peric and Srdjan Redzic. Nice presentation of an urban design add-on for ArchiCAD. I hope to see it developed even more in the future so it can really become a proper design tool.
Andreas Lettner from Innsbruck did a great combination of project presentatio, technical details and ArchiCAD use on those projects. Since he is doing most of his project out of prefabricated wooden panels, you can imagine that ArchiCAD was used in a bit different way than usual. Very, very interesting!
David Lozej from Ljubljana did a nice overview of ArchiCAD history since ArchiCAD 3.3 - the 1st version he used. He was the 1st ArchiCAD user on the territory of former Yugoslavia and definitely a person to ask about ArchiCAD. Seeing old dialog boxes and settings panels really brought back memories... although some of them are less than 10 years old. It seems like it was decades ago.
Miklos Szovenyi-Lux did something that Graphisoft never ever did before: they shared their vision and strategy for the next few years. A big big big THANK YOU to Miklos for doing this! Really an eye-opener for everyone there and you should be sorry for missing this. We hope to have Miklos again next year so this would be a great opportunity for all of you who weren't there to come and check it out.
Andreas then did ArchiCAD-Cinema 4D combo: a good presentation of the practically unlimited possibilities of using AC and C4D together. Great stuff.
Fabrizio Diodati of Cigraph did a fantastic presentation/workshop for ArchiForma. Since we had 2 lectures before about freeform modeling, this was a perfect addition to that topic. Again: great stuff.
Finally, I did ArchiCAD 14 presentation with some help from Miklos (he answered most of the nasty questions from delegates). As it was on such a short notice (we got the RC version just 2 days before the academy), there was not enough time to prepare a full size presentation, but this was still a good overview of new features in AC14.
To make things interesting, in the 2 days that followed the ArchiCAD Spring Academy, the delegates who stayed in Pula for a short holiday enjoyed sightseeing of the ancient city of Pula and a day trip to northern Istria visiting old cities (Groznjan, Momjan and Motovun). Fantastic trip, definitely worth doing. And, the food was excellent, too.
In general we, as organisers, are very happy in the way the whole event went. The best proof was that we didn't have to "force" the delegates to go to lectures: after the breaks they were hungry for more. Perfect.
To conclude all of this, I would like to announce that there will be another ArchiCAD Spring Academy next year! Scheduled dates are 13-14 May 2011 and the venue is the same. All informations will be available on the official web site www.archicadspringacademy.com and Facebook page. Book your airplane tickets, the event will be even better than this year!
Here's a short report from Pula (ArchiCAD Spring Academy 2010). I am the leader of the team who organised the event so if you have any additional questions, feel free to ask.
The whole event went even better than we had hoped for. Nice weather, excellent lectures and the whole community gathering atmosphere between delegates was great. It was more like a friends/colleagues reunion than an official conference.
Lectures were great, especially 3LHD's. Although they come from Croatia and have won numerous international awards (World Architecture Festival, Architectural Review etc), I am not sure that they are well known outside the region. So, whey they showed their projects, delegates were left with their mouths open. Literally.
After 3LHD, it was time for Ivan Jovanovic of BDSP with "Preliminary energy analysis" and this was a perfect example how a good presenter can make a boring subject very interesting. If you have the opportunity, go and see Ivan in action, it is well worth it.
Raoul Cenan did his TOOTH thing impressively. I had no clue that kind of things can be done in ArchiCAD. We had a few GDL experts in the audience and all of them said the same thing: they were thinking about the idea in the past, but Raoul is the first person that really did it.
Artlantis was done by Csanad Meszes from Abvent: a collection of useful tips & tricks. Nicely done.
ArchiUrban was done by the two product designers: Ivan Peric and Srdjan Redzic. Nice presentation of an urban design add-on for ArchiCAD. I hope to see it developed even more in the future so it can really become a proper design tool.
Andreas Lettner from Innsbruck did a great combination of project presentatio, technical details and ArchiCAD use on those projects. Since he is doing most of his project out of prefabricated wooden panels, you can imagine that ArchiCAD was used in a bit different way than usual. Very, very interesting!
David Lozej from Ljubljana did a nice overview of ArchiCAD history since ArchiCAD 3.3 - the 1st version he used. He was the 1st ArchiCAD user on the territory of former Yugoslavia and definitely a person to ask about ArchiCAD. Seeing old dialog boxes and settings panels really brought back memories... although some of them are less than 10 years old. It seems like it was decades ago.
Miklos Szovenyi-Lux did something that Graphisoft never ever did before: they shared their vision and strategy for the next few years. A big big big THANK YOU to Miklos for doing this! Really an eye-opener for everyone there and you should be sorry for missing this. We hope to have Miklos again next year so this would be a great opportunity for all of you who weren't there to come and check it out.
Andreas then did ArchiCAD-Cinema 4D combo: a good presentation of the practically unlimited possibilities of using AC and C4D together. Great stuff.
Fabrizio Diodati of Cigraph did a fantastic presentation/workshop for ArchiForma. Since we had 2 lectures before about freeform modeling, this was a perfect addition to that topic. Again: great stuff.
Finally, I did ArchiCAD 14 presentation with some help from Miklos (he answered most of the nasty questions from delegates). As it was on such a short notice (we got the RC version just 2 days before the academy), there was not enough time to prepare a full size presentation, but this was still a good overview of new features in AC14.
To make things interesting, in the 2 days that followed the ArchiCAD Spring Academy, the delegates who stayed in Pula for a short holiday enjoyed sightseeing of the ancient city of Pula and a day trip to northern Istria visiting old cities (Groznjan, Momjan and Motovun). Fantastic trip, definitely worth doing. And, the food was excellent, too.
In general we, as organisers, are very happy in the way the whole event went. The best proof was that we didn't have to "force" the delegates to go to lectures: after the breaks they were hungry for more. Perfect.
To conclude all of this, I would like to announce that there will be another ArchiCAD Spring Academy next year! Scheduled dates are 13-14 May 2011 and the venue is the same. All informations will be available on the official web site www.archicadspringacademy.com and Facebook page. Book your airplane tickets, the event will be even better than this year!
TMA_80 wrote:Well, we were also very surprised that Graphisoft decided to share that kind of informations with us. Too many things to write down now, but let's just say the future is bright!
- Intresting report (even if we are starving for more infos about what Miklos Szovenyi-Lux said about the future of archicad😉 ...please )
- Will the tooth object be available for download ..Demo ?
- the C4d - AC combo presentation was about rendering or bringing models ? any tips about how to handle geometries between the two softwares ( as generally afaik, c4d geometries are heavy for archicad to handle ...:too many polygons).
Tooth - Raoul still hadn't finished it. I'll let him know about this topic because I think it would be most appropriate if he would answer directly.
C4D - it was about modeling. How to extend the modeling options in ArchiCAD using C4D. Andreas did show a few tips how to have the roundtrip really working and also how to maintain low-poly count.
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Daniel wrote:
Miklos Szovenyi-Lux almost shocked me with sharing Graphisofts vision and strategy for the next few years. Shocked yes, but pleasantly! Something that missed from any presentation by Graphisoft before, and I have frequented very many presentations! This is what we users need, reasons to believe and stay loyal to the software that we use every day. We can live with flaws if we know that they will be addressed, and truly they are .
Huh? Why has no one picked up on this statement? There were reams of posts moaning about why ArchiCAD is not going anywhere, and why don't the developers talk about their future plans! This is big news!!So come on Daniel, you have to spill some of the beans! Give us a clue about what exciting things are in the works, and more importantly, when might we see them!!
Peter wrote:Daniel wrote:
Miklos Szovenyi-Lux almost shocked me with sharing Graphisoft's vision and strategy for the next few years. Shocked yes, but pleasantly! Something that missed from any presentation by Graphisoft before, and I have frequented very many presentations! This is what we users need, reasons to believe and stay loyal to the software that we use every day. We can live with flaws if we know that they will be addressed, and truly they are .
So come on Daniel, you have to spill some of the beans! Give us a clue about what exciting things are in the works, and more importantly, when might we see them!!
We as delegates to the conference have been asked by Miklos to keep the information to ourselves, publishing this information by anybody other than Graphisoft could result in misrepresentation if the information conveyed by us is not 100% correct. Once the information is out there on a forum like this it starts to live a life of its own. I totally agree with comments about there should be more openness in particular in dedicated forums like this, but this has to come directly from Graphisoft. In the meanwhile it does prove that going to events like this does pay off, best ever Graphisoft presentation and Graphisoft even paid for our last group dinner including lovely Croatian wine. How about that!!!
Hi Folks,
Thank you Marin and Daniel for your reports. I wish I could see something like this from Mr. Miklos Szovenyi-Lux.
Cheers,
Paulo
Thank you Marin and Daniel for your reports. I wish I could see something like this from Mr. Miklos Szovenyi-Lux.
Daniel wrote:How many bottles Daniel?... Just to give a scale to your enthusiasm.
... Graphisoft even paid for our last group dinner including lovely Croatian wine. How about that!!!
Cheers,
Paulo
Braza wrote:Nobody counted but plenty of bottles passed the table. Miklos did not count either, he just wanted to treat us dedicated users by surprise as only when the bill came this was arrested by Miklos. As if he did not surprise us enough already, this polished it off. I hope that this becomes a policy by Graphisoft, keep your users informed and treat them well! In my opinion Miklos has paved the way.....
Hi Folks,
Thank you Marin and Daniel for your reports. I wish I could see something like this from Mr. Miklos Szovenyi-Lux.Daniel wrote:How many bottles Daniel?... Just to give a scale to your enthusiasm.
... Graphisoft even paid for our last group dinner including lovely Croatian wine. How about that!!!
Cheers,
Paulo
Hi Daniel,
I guessed that was the reason why you hadn't elaborated further!
Thank you both for the write-up anyway, it was very interesting to read and it's good to hear they treated you well!
I guessed that was the reason why you hadn't elaborated further!
Thank you both for the write-up anyway, it was very interesting to read and it's good to hear they treated you well!
Hi Peter and the rest,
We have the dates for the next ArchiCAD Spring Academy: 13-14 May 2011. Please write it down in you agendas and make sure to register when more informations are published.
We have the dates for the next ArchiCAD Spring Academy: 13-14 May 2011. Please write it down in you agendas and make sure to register when more informations are published.
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