![]() Thank you Bill Fowler!!!!! I thought I was alone but I echo EVERY WORD you have made in your thread. I agree that definition and clarification of terms is important, not only because we need to know what things mean, but sometimes the same thing is called something else in another application, or the same name is used for something else in another application.Īs far as I am concerned I will make sure the people doing training materials will know about this as I will forward this thread to them. This is why the IFC Scheme Setup Dialog is no longer available in ARCHICAD. So the IFC Scheme Setup Dialog and the Properties Dialog are not the same, but they are used to achieve similar aims. GS wants us to be able to define ARCHICAD element properties and use that instead of defining and using custom IFC Properties. The Property Manager kind of replaces that. For example, the IFC Scheme Setup Dialog used to be the place where you could define what IFC Properties are be available in your Project File, it allowed you to define custom IFC Properties and it also offered you the ability to map values to IFC Properties. Actually, some of those things is not really renaming. Unfortunately, there is not much we can do about the renaming things. I actually agree with you on both counts. And day by day I’m learning the logic and structure. For this reason, I would suggest that training videos take the time to (briefly) explain what terms mean and how the tool fits logically into and architect's workflow and the AC menu structure.Īnd finally, a plea to the tireless Archicaders who produce the 2nd-tier tutorials on YouTube. Looking them up in Google is rarely helpful. Please remember that we greenhorns don't know what many of these proprietary terms mean. This might make sense to AC veterans and it might be an improvement but it's frustrating to this newbie. Note that it's buried 4 levels deep in the File menu rather than coupled with the Classification Manager under the Options menu. It took some digging on my part to learn that it’s been moved and renamed to “Options>Classification Manager”.Īlso in AC21, the “File>Interoperability>Classifications and Properties>Download BIM Content” is a very handy tool for the documentation side of our work. For example, Eric Bobrow's session on setting up IFC data in AC19 referred to “File>File Special>IFC>IFC Scheme Setup”, but it's not there in AC21. That’s not helpful when I search for a specific tool.Īrchicad seems to periodically rename tools and restructure the menus. They explain the app's structure and terminology, which is one thing I'd like to see improved in AC training.īy comparison, AC videos in LinkedIn mostly have very general names like “Archicad Essential Training” and “Learning Archicad”. They are concise, not overly verbose, thorough, and broken into 3-5 minute vids with helpful names. ![]() I used Revit training as a comparison because the video tutorials I found on Lynda and LinkedIn are extraordinary, especially those by Paul F. And again, this is only a "newbie" opinion so please set me straight if I’m missing something. I thought it was like octane which have a real-time visualization window but I think the Archicad implementation is only an alternative to cinerender.Thanks, Laszlo. RedShift: I don't know much about this soft. Octane X: They have a very good soft compatible with arm macs but they don't have an Archicad macOS plugin.Įnscape: They released a very good looking plugin for sketchup macOS but there's no date release for a supossed macOS plugin I have a list of plugins / apps / gpu renderers but they have almost the same problem: don't have a macOS Archicad Plugin. ![]() So, ¿which options I have besides Twinmotion?. While Archicad 3D is good looking, his Global Illumination an reflections are very unpleasant. Year by year it's getting better and it has a lot of features for show and explain my projects to my clients but there's a critical feature not available on macOS: Path Tracer. But it's no realtime and is not useful to show or send to my clients.įor some years I'm using Twinmotion which is available in macOS and the connection with Archicad is very good. For still images and some time spent with the cinerender config I can get some good looking renders. I'm looking for some plugin/software for complement my visualization work with Archicad in macOS.
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