About Jim Allen

Jim Allen · 2024-01-26

We have a multi-platform environment in my office, using Macs and PCs. Until Bimcloud (we use the SAAS version) we had a bit of a problem with library paths between Macs and PCs. Although that is now resolved, we are moving towards replacing our doma...

Jim Allen · 2024-01-09

Just when I think I've got the hang of these, I get a really complicated one I can't seem to fix. GDL has no IFS or AND/OR/NOT options, so every condition has to be covered with a separate if statement. I can make this work - up to a point. More than...

Jim Allen · 2024-01-02

I've almost finished my parametric manhole object (thanks in no small measure to Bruce Walker's fantastic Youtube channel Barking Dog BIM, and Lucas Becker's custom objects) but I have a few things to clean up, the most bizarre one being my custom UI...

Jim Allen · 2023-12-12

I'm a GDL novice but I'm building a parametric 2D/3D manhole object and I have some queries that I know many of you will be able to answer quickly  I have a 3d representation which looks like this: I have a 2D representation which looks like this:...

Jim Allen · 2023-12-01

Anyone finding V27 crashing frequently? I'm editing some slightly fiddly handrails with curved segments, and V27 is crashing multiple times a day. I have a tender package to issue today and this is deeply, deeply irritating. I like V27, there are som...

Jim Allen

Adobe Substance isn't free though is it? Personally I'm not keen on development effort/resources being used to interface with external commercial apps that most users are unlikely to use. Procedural textures are very much a specialist visualisation t...

Jim Allen

What type of visualization do you do? (Quick Shaded, Rendering, Animations, Real-time visualization, ...)Multiple:a.) For tender documents I often use monochrome shaded 3d section cuts.b.) Shaded elevations - sometimes textured, sometimes with vector...

Jim Allen

I was chatting to one of the UK Graphisoft support team a few weeks ago, and we had a long chat about Library objects. The QA process for these things is insane. Even little changes can take several months to implement. We all know quality is importa...

Jim Allen · 2024-02-13

Yep - in effect SEO self-surgery with the railing element  Once you set up the main railing, modifying it to cut the top should be pretty easy, and you can drag nodes to align them precisely. I use railing elements for sloping copings for all sorts ...

Jim Allen · 2024-02-12

You can do the whole thing as a railing and use the top rail as a cutting plane - it keeps everything parametric, and allows you to snap the top rail in the 'top cutting railing'. You would have to add short stub posts in the cutting railing though.....

User Statistics

User activity

Use of Bimcloud for all stored resources in Archicad?

Multiple nested IF-THEN commands to simulate AND/OR

GDL object - custom UI, green ui tab icons

GDL objects - Materials vs surfaces

V27 hanging, particularly with handrail editing

Re: Visualization & visual language - Conversation & feedback

Re: Visualization & visual language - Conversation & feedback

Re: Surface of the louver panels, folding doors

Re: Colorbond panel fence created with editing a preset railing in Australia

Re: Colorbond panel fence created with editing a preset railing in Australia