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Announcing the New ARCHICAD USER Jobs Board!

The brand new, totally free ARCHICAD USER jobs board is a community service helping users connect from across town or around the world. 

Join me on a quick tour and see how easy it is to register (it's free) and post a job or contract or upload your resume for consulting or employment.

This week I'm celebrating my 65th birthday with a bunch of new videos and announcements, culminating on Thursday April 18th with a unique edition of the ARCHICAD USER monthly webinar with two special guests. 

More to come soon!

Taking ARCHICAD Beyond Design: Cost Estimation and Construction Management

Free ARCHICAD USER webinar:
Monday March 11th at 1 pm PDT

Taking ARCHICAD Beyond Design: Cost Estimation and Construction Management
with Roderick Anderson & John Hallgarth

Info & Registration: https://archicaduser.com

We're resuming the monthly ARCHICAD USER webinar series with an exciting session featuring two veterans who leverage the ARCHICAD model for cost estimation and construction management.

Learn how these experts set up their ARCHICAD projects and manage data for accurate quantity take-offs and interface with a variety of tools for management, reporting and communication including BIMx Pro, Bluebeam and Excel.

I'll introduce and moderate the discussion, and guide the Q&A. It's going to be a fascinating deep dive into this vital area where design, cost and construction processes meet.

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Master ARCHICAD! 7 new video tutorials + Black Friday all month long

Eric Bobrow, ArchiCAD Guru

Eric Bobrow
Your friendly ARCHICAD guru

Wherever you are on the journey towards ARCHICAD mastery, I'm pretty sure you want to continue to learn and improve your skills and optimize your workflow so that you can derive the maximum benefit from this amazing tool.

That's exactly what I want for YOU - and all other ARCHICAD users.

This month I am running a special "Master ARCHICAD!" event.

I'm producing a bunch of new free video tutorials to share with the community.
AND I'm putting all of my products on sale.

A BIG sale.
It's going to be "Black Friday - all month long!"

NEW ARCHICAD VIDEO TUTORIALS

Over the next few weeks, I'll be producing a new series of 7 free video tutorials, tentatively titled:

  • ARCHICAD Design/Views 1: Sketches & Construction Docs
  • ARCHICAD Design/Views 2: Con Docs & Presentations
  • ARCHICAD Design/Views 3: Quick Studies of Surface Finishes
  • ARCHICAD Design/Views 4: Cutaways and 3D Documents
  • ARCHICAD Design/Views 5: Framing in 2D and 3D
  • ARCHICAD Design/Views 6: From Composites to Profiles
  • ARCHICAD Design/Views 7: Progressive Detailing Using Profiles

This is going to be fun.
Lots of quick tips and tricks, and examples you can use.
Short videos (for me) - I'm aiming for 5 to 15 minutes each.

I'll even be including cool downloads to make it easy to do some of these tricks.

BLACK FRIDAY - ALL MONTH LONG

Help yourself to some bargains on ARCHICAD training and on MasterTemplate.

Check out this page, where everything is 50% to 70% off for the month of November:
https://bobrow.com/master-archicad-sale

Have any questions about any of my ARCHICAD resources?
Need a special payment arrangement?

Use the little chat widget in the bottom right of this page, or email me at support (at) bobrow.com and I'll be happy to help you.

Eric

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NEW: MasterTemplate 22 – Totally Overhauled and Optimized for ARCHICAD 22

After months of intense work, MasterTemplate 22 was released today. I have incorporated cutting edge best practices methods and strategies with the aim of creating the “ultimate driving machine” for ARCHICAD.

Power, sophistication and an intuitive framework that you can make your own.

In this 2 hour in-depth presentation you’ll see what’s under the hood, and come along for the ride as we explore the break-through time-saving methodology built into the framework of the project file.

Use the Full Screen button in the bottom right of the video while playing to watch it at a size that allows you to see all the detail.

HOW TO PURCHASE MASTERTEMPLATE 22

Get immediate access to MasterTemplate 22 using these links:

Notes: One license may be used for an entire office – after all, this is intended to be used as an “office standard”…

Full 90 Day Money Back Guarantee – try MasterTemplate on a project or two, keep it only if you find it useful.

Questions? Email me at support@bobrow.com – I’m always happy to help.

– Eric

UPDATE (November 6, 2018)
The international metric edition of AMT22 was published last week, along with a revamped USA version and an improved Sample Project. In the month following the webinar recording, I was able to do a significant amount of additional optimization based on user feedback and my own observations and tests. I’m very pleased with the results and proud to share AMT22 with the ARCHICAD community.

P.S. Cornelis Wegman from Australia posted a comment that made me aware that the framing profiles I had set up were generating linework that went against 2D drawing conventions, with the cross-hatch lines heavier than the outline. I was able to change that quite easily, so the template now produces even better looking sections of the 3D model. Here is a screenshot from the revised section:

MasterTemplate section drawing screenshot with revised framing profiles

I have also corrected a couple of issues that I noticed in the demonstration (you may notice them in the video recording) and further enhanced the settings for Electrical Plans to make the electrical elements stand out clearly against the faint grey background of the building.

MasterTemplate is always going to be a work in progress…however I’m extremely happy with the progress made this year!

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Newly updated for 2018: ARCHICAD QuickStart Training

I am pleased to announce that I have just released a new 2018 version of my classic introduction to ARCHICAD, QuickStart Lesson 1.

This is the first in a new series of QuickStart lessons, totally revamped and up to date. The QuickStart Course is my training on ARCHICAD basics, available for purchase at https://acbestpractices.com/quickstart (separately or a part of my Best Practices Course).

The original version is the most popular ARCHICAD video tutorial to date with 676,000 views on my YouTube channel. Created in 2011, it’s helped thousands of users get familiar with the working environment of the program.

I share the first several videos from the QuickStart Course on YouTube as my contribution to the ARCHICAD community. I look forward to helping a new generation of users with the new series!