I first met Dwight at an Archicad meeting in Vancouver in 1992 (Pal Szabo from GSCNE in Toronto would host these to showcase new/upcoming features for existing and potential new customers). Dwight had just purchased his first computer – a Macintosh Quadra 950 – and was in th...

Two monitors side-by-side at the office for the past 10 years (various resolutions depending on time period), but at home I've just hooked up the new Asus PB287Q 28-inch 4k UHD monitor to my Mac Pro. Asus lists the resolution at 3840 x 2160 pixels (so-called 4k standard) but...

Article posted on the architosh commentary blog in late-October states the new Mac Pro should be good news for ArchiCAD users. http://architosh.com/2013/10/op-ed-why-the-new-mac-pro-will-rock-for-archicad-but-not-for-revit/ Still waiting for actual tests/reports from users n...

A few inaccuracies in this article… I purchased the 128k Macintosh in the summer of 1984 and it only shipped with two programs — MacWrite and MacPaint. MacDraw did not debut until Fall 1984, and was a separate software purchase (I acquired it in November 1984). IDD's MacDraf...

Autodesk's AutoCAD rules the roost in many architectural firms and is almost universal among engineering consultants. The DWG format is the de facto standard for drawing exchange on almost all projects, and most institutional clients have also adopted it for their records. W...