Archive for February, 2011

February Christchurch Earthquake

Posted by scottbarrington in Uncategorized on February 23rd, 2011 - No Comments

Thanks a lot to everyone who sent in messages to check if we were alright. Yes we were all fine & managed to escape our office injury free. It was a horrible experience and we are still getting regular aftershocks. Our thoughts go out to all the people who are still missing in Christchurch. For… Read more

Supercharge your ArchiCAD skills

Posted by scottbarrington in Uncategorized on February 17th, 2011 - No Comments

Our friend Eric Bobrow is about to release a great new program that will help all ArchiCAD users. It’s a new program he’s created which outlines the ArchiCAD best practises and will turn you (and your office) into an ArchiCAD power house. We’ve seen a preview of it and it looks great. In his program… Read more

Posted by scottbarrington in BIM, BIMstop on February 16th, 2011 - No Comments

Here’s a great trick inspired by 37signals, to add BIMstop.com directly into your menu bar – now that’s useful! It also really simple to do, here’s how: First you’ll need Fluid (Mac only at this stage). Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your… Read more

Fred Wilson On Investments

Posted by scottbarrington in Uncategorized on February 14th, 2011 - No Comments

We keep a close eye on what’s happening within the USA tech sector. My favourite VC (if that’s possible?) at the moment is Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures. Him & his team seem to have a great understanding on what makes a truly valuable web app. TechCrunch recently interviewed him & it’s great to… Read more

BIM Content On Videos

Posted by scottbarrington in BIM on February 9th, 2011 - No Comments

We always get requests to see videos of our Revit families & ArchiCAD objects in action. So we’ve decided to upload a few to our youtube channel. There you will see a range of manufacturer’s products we have worked with (from beams to light fittings) and how the content functions within the BIM software. As… Read more

BIMstop In The (Vectorworks) News

Posted by scottbarrington in BIM on February 3rd, 2011 - No Comments

We’re in the Vectorworks News today. You can read the full post on the planet Vectorworks blog here. It great to be able to now support all the Vectorworks users out there and help to improve their building information modeling (BIM) efficiency. There’s already a lot of great Vectorworks content uploaded to BIMstop, so why… Read more