Get your copy of AC installed in your workstation!
If the production of the company requires Acad then use it , having always ArchiCAD running on the background.
watch the scenario:
step 1: When things get really hard, time is little and everyone thinks you cannot deliver on time : ALT+TAB= ArchiCAD
step 2:you will have the first looks and questions: "how did you do that?"
" Oh, isn't ArchiCAD just for interior designers?" etc.
step 3 : small demonstration of the way you model it
step 4 : partner at the next workstation having a self head injury , thinking of all these years he lost learning how to draw lines using Autocad
step 5 : it spreads like a virus in the office
step 6: they try to make you a cad manager to setup an ArchiCAD environment
step 7: you refuse because you are an architect and not a cad manager
and life goes on...
Petros
If the production of the company requires Acad then use it , having always ArchiCAD running on the background.
watch the scenario:
step 1: When things get really hard, time is little and everyone thinks you cannot deliver on time : ALT+TAB= ArchiCAD
step 2:you will have the first looks and questions: "how did you do that?"
" Oh, isn't ArchiCAD just for interior designers?" etc.
step 3 : small demonstration of the way you model it
step 4 : partner at the next workstation having a self head injury , thinking of all these years he lost learning how to draw lines using Autocad
step 5 : it spreads like a virus in the office
step 6: they try to make you a cad manager to setup an ArchiCAD environment
step 7: you refuse because you are an architect and not a cad manager
and life goes on...
Petros
If 800 use AutoCAD and one uses ArchiCAD, there is 1 chance in 800 you could be wrong
Krippahl wrote:Aw c'mon, two million people can't be wrong ...
If 800 use AutoCAD and one uses ArchiCAD, there is 1 chance in 800 you could be wrong
A major advantage to being an ArchiCAD user among AutoCAD operators is that they get stuck with all the dreary detail and production work. 
I ran a project where there were not enough ArchiCAD people available so we had to use AutoCAD drafters to finish up the drawings. This meant that the two other ArchiCAD users and I got to focus on the modeling (and floor plans) and just dumped all the elevations, sections, and details on the other guys.
It was nowhere near as productive as teamworking ArchiCAD, but it was still way better than trying to crank the whole thing out in plain AutoCAD.
A word of caution though. Unless you find an unusual level of interest, do not push the use of ArchiCAD in this environment. ACAD users are likely to find it threatening as a concept (particularly CAD managers) and will resist and criticize.
It would be best to look for an opportunity to use ArchiCAD to help out in the right circumstances. The best situation might be where a quick model is needed for presentation purposes. After impressing everyone with it's speed and quality as a modeler, you give them the base plans, elevations and sections for completion in AutoCAD. But keep in mind that this could still be alarming to some who may see their position threatened.
I ran a project where there were not enough ArchiCAD people available so we had to use AutoCAD drafters to finish up the drawings. This meant that the two other ArchiCAD users and I got to focus on the modeling (and floor plans) and just dumped all the elevations, sections, and details on the other guys.
It was nowhere near as productive as teamworking ArchiCAD, but it was still way better than trying to crank the whole thing out in plain AutoCAD.
A word of caution though. Unless you find an unusual level of interest, do not push the use of ArchiCAD in this environment. ACAD users are likely to find it threatening as a concept (particularly CAD managers) and will resist and criticize.
It would be best to look for an opportunity to use ArchiCAD to help out in the right circumstances. The best situation might be where a quick model is needed for presentation purposes. After impressing everyone with it's speed and quality as a modeler, you give them the base plans, elevations and sections for completion in AutoCAD. But keep in mind that this could still be alarming to some who may see their position threatened.
1:800? Not fair!
I've succeded to do this in a 2:7 situation and it was VERY difficult!
Googd luck anyway! It will be interesting to see the results in a 2-3 months period
I've succeded to do this in a 2:7 situation and it was VERY difficult!
Googd luck anyway! It will be interesting to see the results in a 2-3 months period
Still looking?
