Year: 2015
Pen Sets, Part Eight: Thoughts on Naming
This is Jared’s Eighth post in an ‘extremely long series’ on Pens and Pen Sets in Archicad!
Get Your Archicad Rhino Connection
Check out this YouTube video demonstrating the power of the Rhinoceros® – Archicad connection, announced in April of 2015. The connection enables Archicad users on both the Mac and Windows platforms to export a model created in Rhino, and then import it into Archicad.
Archicad Layer Theory Part 5: Attribute Names and the Tyranny of Alphabetical Order
Before we get to the official naming conventions article I’ve been teasing, I need to return to Layers. My post Pen Sets, Part Eight: Thoughts on Naming and a coincidental encounter made me realize that I was doing Layer names wrong, at least for how I use Layers. Below are the links to the first four posts on Layers (don’t forget to read the comments). These posts will catch you up on how I and others view Layers. You don’t need to read them all to understand this one, but together they are building an overarching concept of how to view Layers.
Archicad Layer Theory: Do you need that Layer?
Last year I got into an argument with some non-Archicad BIM users who laughed at us for having Layers. So let’s take a minute to get familiar with Layers and why we need them (and when we don’t).