Google SketchUp for Dummies and Autodesk Revit
“Google SketchUp for Dummies”, I might check it out in my nearest local bookstore soon, according to Amazon, the book has a total of 432 pages with something like 260 illustrations and a 16-page color insert. Price at $17.00, the book contain some really comprehensive guide on modeling a 3D in SketchUp, the best part is it comes with video tutorials on YouTube for free, yes, it is free for anyone! Check the companion website for the book with links to the free videos on YouTube. So far the author has recorded and uploaded 54, and he plans to add another three dozen or so in the next couple of months.
If you happen to be looking for video tutorials for any software except SketchUp, Lynda.com has some really good collections of videos in DVD format, personally I find watching a video tutorial is much more informative than reading a book.
Yes, Autodesk Revit.
We’re given three option for this semester option class and me and my friends decided to go for Autodesk Revit, its the future. Just like ArchiCAD, Revit is a BIM (Building Information Modeling) program and it is way much more advance than ArchiCAD, and the best part about Revit is:
Users can transfer geometry from a Revit Architecture model into the Autodesk VIZ or Autodesk 3ds Max application through DWG file export. The Autodesk VIZ 2005 Interoperability for Revit plug-in imports the DWG file exported from Revit 7 or Revit Building 8 and maintains material assignments. Because this functionality has been incorporated into Autodesk VIZ since version 2006 and in 3ds Max since version 8, the plug-in is no longer necessary.
The bottom line is, ArchiCAD’s rendering engine is buggy and horrible, anyway, BIM softwares are not written for 3D rendering.
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Graphisoft ArchiCAD 10 is Free for Students
Two days ago I’ve receive a personal email from Graphisoft, according to him/her, Graphisoft has released the new Archicad 10, the latest CAD software, and has now made it available to students for free! A clean, legal, fully functional and operational Archicad 10! In order to enter Heaven, I’m doing my part for the good of mankind by helping them to promote the new ArchiCAD 10 Free version.
The battle between Autodesk and Graphisoft rage on, competition produce results and I’m loving it. For your information, Archicad is the most popular (for the moment) Virtual Building™ solution for architects in the world, the main question would be for how long can they hold on to that number one spot? I’ve been working for 7 months now and I find that alot of company chooses Autodesk Revit over ArchiCAD, Graphisoft better do something about it quick.
What is the catch? The Free version has a watermark-style logo embeded onto all ArchiCAD projects, other than that, it has all of the function found in a full paid commercial version. To download and use the Archicad 10 student version, the only thing you need to do is to register to receive a personalized serial number. You’re entitled to use Archicad 10 for a one-year period before re-registering. Does that include updates? Patching for bugs and many more? Click on the image below to download the Free ArchiCAD 10 version.
If you happen to be using a pirated version of ArchiCAD, its time to come clean and download the free version. Stop downloading ArchiCAD pirated version that comes with ArchiCAD 10 CD key and crack. What reason we have now since it is free?
ArchiCAD is a powerfull BIM program, and one of the drawback is the 3D rendering engine. I’ve posted a few times on this issue and everytime they release a new version, there is no improvement in their 3D rendering engine. I’ve yet to try out the version 10, hopefully it is better. Revit has the 3D max rendering engine, ArchiCAD got to do something about it.
The other thing I like about ArchiCAD is the 3D library, it could have been better if they include more 3D objects or set up a 3D library center, where students can submit their GDL 3Ds for sharing.
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