Tips and Tricks Session Sat 6th April 2002

These took the form of short case studies or presentations.


1. David Nicholson Cole

ArchiCAD winter school idea for Jan 2003, with movie of Feuerkogel mountain ski resort. CDs can be sent to interested parties, please ask.
www for winter school

2. Tom Hughes
- Landmark competition winning entry for East Midlands, near Nottingham, using Rhino and GDL.
- Animated night time motorway with "ice car" objects, to develop convincing material for public exhibition.
[download IceCars 120k]
sky vault web site and steel research house project

3. Graham Thomas
Parametric drawing title blocks used in HRA.
www

4. Til Breton
Highly smart spanish roof tile object model.

5. John Counsell
Historic garden interpretation project integrating web cam with ArchiCAD.

www valhalla   wwwstudio

6. Chris Phillips
- Using hot linked modules to control brick dimensions.
- Use of standard steel size objects.


7. David Nicholson Cole

Student work from Nottingham University; fast track progressive teaching (lecture every 2 days) to manage the 'sausage-machine' numbers.
www .

8. Matthew Lohden
- Using alpha channels to switch brick colours.
- Using the project2 command to cutaway complex structures displayed in plan.

9. Evangelo Kalmantis
Rendering work from his practice on Kalmantis website.
www

10. Peter Bennison
Watercolour rendering of hidden line views.

11. Martyn Janson
Communicating with AutoCAD.
Kubus www

12. Stefan Boeykens
Using various Rendering packages with ArchiCAD.
www

13. Paul Chillingworth
- Examples of Calculate menu use,
- Quick web sites from photoshop,
- QTVR - real compared to virtual (as a marketing tool).

April 14, 2002