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The Art of Architecture

This tweet caught my eye, it had the look. Remember when architectural design was an art not a mouse click? While we were in Melbourne - the old man drew some brilliant aerial views from our 17th floor apartment #perspective pic.twitter.com/pM4j1YShn4— Jenny Eclair (@jennyeclair) April 20, 2017 @jennyeclair Was he an architect/designer? Lovely drawings that have the style often taught back when drawing was a thing...— Robin Capper (@robincapper) April 20, 2017 @robincapper Art school in the 60s - sculpture and graphics - before building design— Jenny Eclair (@jennyeclair) April 20, 2017 @jennyeclair That explains it, lovely style.— Robin Capper... Read more →

Revit User Group Auckland April Meeting Announcement

Tomorrow evening, see you there? Revit Data Structure - BIM past, now and future and Updates on the BIM Handbook When: Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 5:30 PM Where: Jasmax, 2 Marston Street, Parnell, Auckland (From the top of the stairs, turn right at reception, meeting space past the café area) Please join us from 5.30pm: 6:00pm : Welcome and Introduction 6.05pm : AGM Announcement & call for nominations 6:15pm : Presentation; Roy Qian presenting "Revit Data Structure - BIM past, now and future" (based on his AU China 2016 presentation and various Training sessions he has given) Danu Achmadi bringing... Read more →

Oh look, it is 2018 already

An Easter surprise ‘present’ from Autodesk! Read more →

The forgotten 13th Anniversary?

It’s the middle of April and, thanks to a blog anniversary post from Scott Sheppard, I realised I overlooked my own March 31st blog’iversary! It is now thirteen years since that first tentative post. I must have hit dismiss (not snooze) on the calendar reminder when it appeared a week before! It has been a pretty quiet year blog’wise but now, working back at The Warehouse, I will be able to post a bit more. I have been playing with some exciting technology recently and look forward to sharing that when things have progressed a bit more. I still find... Read more →

Autodesk Design Review is dead, long live Autodesk Design Review!

Like a forgotten child, Autodesk Design Review (ADR) has been ignored since it was updated to the 2013 version (so really 2012). It was so forgotten the installer offered by Autodesk until today came complete with a security flaw that required an immediate additional ‘hotfix’ upon first use of the application! The corporate response from Autodesk is ADR is obsolete, surpassed by the impressive A360 cloud services. In many ways this is correct as cloud hosting made file sharing much easier and integrated viewing eliminated the need/pain/hurdle of a local viewer install (albeit introducing browser compatibility hurdles for users who... Read more →