Cad Managers?

[Anonymous]

I am currently faced with the issue of determining what a basic user should know about ArchiCAD, and would like to divide the staff into categories that will allow basic, standard and high end users so that each project has a competent cad person in a team.
Therafter the idea is to break the trainining issues into one hour segments so that the company continues to run, while progress happens.

Any Ideas or suggestions?

[Andy Thomson]

I think if we looked at your best set of CDs, and ours, we'd find a lot of similarities. Our partners are likewise extremely particular.
Everything must be just so, and that is not always possible with out of the box parts, etc.

We should compare notes sometime, on topics such as window and other schedules, details workflow, optimized DWG translator settings (when to publish from LBKs and when from ArchiCad), etc. You know, the whole list of stuff that nobody really knows how to do, or at least not quickly and easily.

Even ID management is something even a newbie should know, so there is no need to sort and filter parts later to run a schedule, etc, etc. I don't know how many times I've had to turn 'enable multi-platform format' on and 'auto ID increase' off....

[Andy Thomson]

Right. A 'How To' guide for creating this fairly specific office template you mention, from attributes to a bit of custom GDL. It is a fairly specific thing in almost every firm I have worked in, and in my experience, it has been painfully slow to develop in most cases, and often remains incomplete.

Sounds like a topic for an upcoming ArchiCad University?