About Karl Ottenstein

Karl Ottenstein

A friend just sent me a link to this free site/app that uses satellite based 3D building mass inferences (as well as, surprisingly, trees) to provide shade mapping for any day/time of the year. Seems reasonably global from random locations that I tried.https://shademap.app/ ...

Karl Ottenstein · 2026-08-06

Just curious if anyone has applied for and received a discount for the new "Young Professional Program" that I saw in my feed today: https://www.graphisoft.com/en-at/campaigns/young-professional-program The discount is apparently offered only after application... If anyone h...

Karl Ottenstein · 2025-10-20

Today's continuing problems with Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted apps, services and sites made me curious about where/how Graphisoft's various cloud services are hosted and how secure they are from interruption - which could be an issue when projects are on deadline.I think...

Karl Ottenstein · 2025-04-08

Another update, another disconnect between announcement and availability on the downloads page vs the in-product update feature not finding the update. 28.1.1 announced here: https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Graphisoft-Insights/Archicad-28-1-1-Hotfix-release/ba-p/658133 b...

Karl Ottenstein · 2025-03-13

The latest 28.1 (4001) update somehow corrupted my AC 28 installation, so I had to delete it and am reinstalling from the 3001 base install and will then apply the 28.1 update to that. The new automatic update download is confusing since it doesn't put the DMG file in the Do...

Karl Ottenstein

If you have an M2 (pro) chip - why are you running the ancient (2022 release) Ventura (13.7.8)? Don't expect a recent release like AC 29 to run on an old macOS. macOS updates are free...Also, 3100 is the initial release ... update AC 29 to the most current update (29.2.1 bui...

Karl Ottenstein

Awesome!! Just an incredible result, Patrick. Thanks for sharing this and the hours that went into your experiments!I think Apple gave a hint of who they thought had the best coding assistance in the new XCode which has both agentic and chat coding. Any additional agents or ...

Karl Ottenstein

Is this just to alert the rest of us to this potential issue, or have you submitted this to technical support? This Community is not a tech support channel as you know. Do any particular actions result in this crash? What version of macOS? (Your signature lists an out of dat...

Karl Ottenstein

If they're keeping Basic for Windows, I can't understand not keeping it also for macOS... like what part of the process of leaving Intel code behind can Claude AI coding not handle for them without much investment? An official announcement would be useful.

Karl Ottenstein

There is not an external compiler. Actual GDL coding is discussed in a separate developer forum here:https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/GDL/bd-p/forum-gdl

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Site context shade mapping - free site/app

New Graphisoft "Young Professional Program" - how big is the discount?

Graphisoft Cloud Services Hosting - Vulnerable or not?

28.1.1 not offered by in-product Check for Updates

Where does AC 28 save automatically downloaded update files?

Re: AC29 mac Icons appear truncated

Re: AI + GDL

Re: Recurring dyld/Mach-O SIGBUS crash in Archicad 29 (v2025 FULL INT, Build 5101)

Re: BIMcloud Basic – Future on macOS

Re: Compiling GDL Outside Archicad — Is It Possible?

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