This is our chance...to bring Autodesk to their knees...

[ares997]

We have a very short window in time and space, and now we have more than enough ammunition to take down goliath. If you think about it...David brought down the giant with technology. It wasn't because he was necessarily smaller than the giant, but more inventive, better long reaching technology, an eye for understanding the means and methods for getting the job done in his current market. That is what Graphisoft has gave us yesterday, though it might not be in our hot little hands. We the Archicad Marines need to start making some frakin' noise out their.

This is the point at which we can sit in our cubicles and say, umm I'm not really sure if it is what I think it is...when it is more than you could have ever dream of.

Ironically enough Autodesk yesterday started to buckle, as well as said that they would be offering inventor as a free download, "no kidding."

Come on guys there should be at least a blog each from all you loyalist who have been here since the beginning. This is our house now go out and take the gorilla by the balls to take him out.

Even with AC12 and AC11 we were still way ahead of the curve and have always been, now let's start sending info to WIRED.COM, ENGADET.COM , USA TODAY, CNN, ETC. Graphisoft has put a lot into this release. Testing it throughly, making sure it works with Snow Leopard (which is why they delayed the release until yesterday, considering Snow Leopard was on Friday so that gives GS 30+ days to get it ready for the MAC kids out there.)

The Graphisoft Team has not only change the rules about what can be done in a yearly release cycle, they have change what will the future be for us.

Graphisoft's "biggest not-so-secret weapon is its staff of developers [who] focus enormous talent on a niche, which Westerners can't match."
Jonathan B. Levine, Business Week, USA

"It's passion, and a good deal of business sense, that helped turn Graphisoft into a global player."
The Wall Street Journal

We are a team based all over the world and need to act like one more now then ever.

This has happened a few times before
1. The cpu and drafting in a machine
2. Going 3d
3. Going Parametric + GDL
4. Going BIM
5. Going in with the DELTA SERVER

If you can imagine what this could mean even outside this industry it is far reaching.

Get out there and make some noise.

Please don't hesitate. We need to start scaring the investors of AUTODESK today and now we have our $5k keys ringing in their ears.

We have ECO designer, we have VBE, we have MEP, our company, our team has brought us the weapons within this year that dominates all other products out there.

Pull your fingers out of your ears and start emailing, witting blogs, witting your congressmen, telling your friends, telling your enemies that we are coming for them one seat at a time.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

A friend of mine once showed me the house he had designed with Excel. After creating a square 2D matrix, he filled in the blanks with black space or lines where the wall openings should be.

According to him, he'd been issued his building pemit with these drawings.

He didn't have to learn anything new, either.

[Dwight]

He lives in Legoland.

[Anonymous]

So here's a screenshot of Revit (on XP, with a skin to make it a bit like a Mac!) in the family editor.

You can see the window in elevation in the background, and in the foreground is the parameters dialog, where you can see that users enter in the height of the vent in the "Bottom Vent Height" field, and the dimension actually controlling the height of the vent has the parameter "BottomWindowVent" (they're two different parameters -- one just doesn't have spaces in it). The logic formula for "BottomWindowVent" checks to see if the user-entered parameter "Bottom Window Vent" is greater than 1'.

It is all fairly easy; you just have to take the time to add it in once you know about this functionality.

I'd LOVE to see this added to ArchiCAD!

[Anonymous]

Aaron wrote:
A friend of mine once showed me the house he had designed with Excel. After creating a square 2D matrix, he filled in the blanks with black space or lines where the wall openings should be.

According to him, he'd been issued his building pemit with these drawings.

He didn't have to learn anything new, either.

Nevermind parametrics in Revit, I think your friend is onto something!

I wonder if Excel can be considered a true BIM program? After extensive research I have to say it's pretty close.

Please find attached my latest design presented in this versatile program. Comments and criticisms welcome. Note the use of photorealistic entourage to give a sense of scale and context.

[Eduardo Rolon]

But Apple's Numbers is better than Excel and cheaper.

[Anonymous]

At last, true BIM.
I'll bet
Autodesk & Graphisoft
are shaking in there boots
(or worse) right now!

[owen]

the bird is a nice touch

[Anonymous]

you guys are easily impressed.
the guy who sent me these must have spent months doing them

[Anonymous]

he did send me elevations and interiors. cant find them at the mo.
but really impressive for excel, he had got loads of pics from the net and placed them onto the file.

[Anonymous]

found em, he even has put pics of family on the walls.
love it.