It may seem strange that someone who is color blind would be a design professional. But what I've learned through color blindness is that I see the world differently than 90% of people. So, I bring that alternate perspective to a variety of topics of interest.
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Those text dimensions are weird here in Russia. Almost every single software uses points to measure text height except for cad and bim software that typically use millimeters. Sometimes you want to match text sizes from different software and it can get complicated.
The imperial system sucks, sorry Americans lol
tienen el crack de nescape + archicad para mac ??
I see you are an architect. Can you draw plans for duplex for TIPS panels?
Email me and we can discuss more.
Ummmm.... Usually it’s customary to show the interior of a home if you wanna sell it. Just sayin.👎
Not for sale. This was me testing my new drone at the time. My cousin who owns it has a website with interiors to see for those interested in short term rentals.
Hey thanks .It was exactly the video ı was looking for. I noticed in the video that you are using black control panels, how did you do this?
On Mac, Archicad has a dark mode option.
Hmm. ... I was only here for the last bit!
It definitely made the whole video, LOL!
I found it because of your ArchiCAD, MAC, and Ensacpe. Less interested in political, especially being from another country. Thanks for your content, been very helpful!
Thanks for the input!
which version of enscape is fit for archicad 27 ?
The latest version works great.
How did you change your archicad interface to dark mode?
On Mac, within Archicad, choose Options, Work Environment, More Options, and under experimental options, choose Enable System Appearance. In the Mac OS settings, choose Dark Mode. Archicad unfortunately does not support dark mode for Windows.
Good video. Out of date drawings in the field is a major frustration. As we move from paper to digital, hopefully that goes away. Where I used to work our Sheet Index included a matrix of every sheet and a checkbox for each sheet that was affected by each revision (AutoCAD - managed manually). We also had a "REVISIONS" sheet at the end of the set where we placed a written description of changes for each revision, along with the reason for the change, i.e. Owner directed, design change, or field coordination. That Revisions sheet gave a pretty good picture of what changed and when.
CI Tools has a cool Revision Matrix available (google search "Transmittal Object CI Tools"). Very cool but only available for the AU/NZ customers.
Great explanation. I'm still pretty new to Archicad and been battling to figure out how to make change/revision tracking simple as a 1 man office and this has cleared up a lot of confusing & frustrating issues I was having. I also like your tip with the vp stretching with 5 line items but I have 1 question regarding this. How do you deal with the text wrapping when it jumps to 2 lines and then obscures the line below? Basically, how can I avoid this happening when my description of a revision is too long for 1 line, and I don't want the lines below to be covered or obscured? TIA.
The text spilling over really boils down to limiting yourself on description length, using smaller text, or a longer width to the column of the schedule. If it must wrap to two lines, then you have to go into the schedule view and adjust the row height manually.
@@ColorBlindArchitect Thanks. Thats what I thought. I was bitten by a case of "wishful thinking" in hoping that there was an automatic way to set the schedule rows to automatically wrap to 2 lines.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It's a very creative use of the curtain wall tool that will come in very handy.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this content; It's so pure and helpful. Keep up the good work! Cheers.
Glad you enjoy it!
I enjoy all of your videos. How is your home office construction coming along?
Thanks! We missed the window to beat the winter for weather proofing so now that spring is upon us we are finally zeroing in on weatherproofing this week. After that, we should be very close to finishing. I'll try to put a video out soon showing the progress.
Hi from germany. I found you because of archicad😎. But every Video else from you I am also interessted in. Cheers from hopefully Peace keeping germany.
Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks for the video. It's odd that Enscape plugin renders in a seperate windows rather than the backdrop of the main viewport. Apart from being a cleaner integration, the interconnection between the plugin and AC seems to be a bit laggy. Enscape is Apple Silicon native but Chaos has been slow to adopt ARM & Metal & something seems suboptimal. It would be interesting to see some performance measurements between your Mac & PC. Sadly, unless companies like Chaos adopt the technologies Apple is using/providing ARM ISA & Metal/ MetalRT graphics API, the M3 processors' hardware ray tracing will be of little value. So, can we expect an M3 video? Even if it's unflattering.
Great suggestion to do a comparison. Any specific metrics you'd like to to test?
@@ColorBlindArchitect frame-rates in general operation would be great (check out Apple's Metal HUD, unsure of Windows equivalent) and maybe selecting half-a-dozen standardised scenes for Enscape to render (different types of scene would be good to reflect different workloads). My suspicion is that Enscape doesn't use MetalRT yet so won't use the new M3 hardware ray tracing, but I could be wrong.
Hi Im planning to transition from a razerblade 15 RTX 2060 to the Macbook Pro M3 Pro. Im wondering if i can still use Rhino - Enscape and still perform as good as the window version.
Enscape is running well on my M1Max. Just make sure your Rhino license is dual platform. I made that mistake and still have to use my PC anytime I need Rhino.
@@ColorBlindArchitect Hey there, im about to actually go into my archi major this fall freshman year, and i was wondering something: Are the file types from mac and windows the same? What i mean is like, can I work on a sketchup / archicad / enscape file on mac and seamlessly transfer it to a windows pc? I was hoping to do that this coming year, so that I can use a power efficient (yet powerful) system when around campus and crank out the fancy stuff on a tower pc in the dorm. Thanks for your input if you get to this!
@@crypticstrix3083 , thanks for the question. File types are generally interchangeable between Mac and Windows. The only issue going back and forth is make sure to format any thumb drives or detachable USB drives with Windows because Mac can read Windows formatted drives by Windows cannot reat Mac formatted drives. Other than that, you should do great. Congratulations on going into architecture school!
Thanks for everything! Except saying archicad shit*y morph tool worth sketchup simple and powerful free modeling ^^
Thanks, including your opinion on the morph tool. I find it’s sufficient for my needs, I’m curious what functionality on the morph tool would you want to see?
I’ve hiked to Grandview many, many times over the years. My first trip was in 1975. Too bad you had to turn a video about one of my favorite places into a political diatribe.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering creating separate channels to house hiking / skiing content from the political content. I think it is important for people to think about what is going on in the world, but I see how some people prefer hiking videos to only be about the place.
good info, but as a constructive criticism: we want to see the technical part, your video occupies allmost half the screen. Maybe you can start the videos only with you and after the intro focus on the techincal part. That may make the video more high quality. keep up the good work!
That’s great feedback!
thank you sir it help me alot in me research
Glad to hear that
Good content but the video quality needs improvement. Can't see the texts at the background.
Very true. Still learning how to best use screen recording software
@@ColorBlindArchitect Congratulations for your content! If you could change your screen resolution, maybe just for recording, it would be just perfect. Thank you anyway.
Two years later… and you still did good!👍
Thanks!
I got a 1650 mobile laptop and I couldn't make it work.
Thanks for the info. Did you get it installed? If so, did you try unchecking the GPU acceleration option by the “start AI engine” button?
I actually did uncheck it. Installed the CUDA toolkit and updated drivers but to no avail. Something about no formwork and no-half support from my card. I dont know. Maybe I need to upgrade, and there's the rumor only Nvidia gpus work with it on the windows side @@ColorBlindArchitect
I'm hoping we can share ideas on how to create good prompts for this and possibly share images we create using the AI Visualizer.
Nice detailed work....
I agree, ARCHICAD needs minor updates, Autodesk has done a great job of that over the past few years
Glad you are back. Keep the videos coming. I’ve loved Enscape ever since I ran across it 5 or 6 years ago. And glad to see it finally making it to MacOS and Archicad.
Thanks! Will do!
Thanks, I was waiting for the Enscape Archicad review, but it doesn't seem like a valid alternative to me. I hope "lumen" works in twinmotion for Mac
Is it a beta version? I don't see that escape is still available to download officially on its website, at the moment it is only available on Mac for use with SketchUp
It doesn't say beta. I had to log into my Enscape account on their website and the download option was within that.
I want a mac for the battery life, and the design, and not as my main machine. So to me just being able to open a file and see my floor plans is enough. Thanks. I do wish they made a native version that would take advantage of the CPU. For a 3k eur machine, it’s pretty sad…
No relevant intro so far... :(
High resolution screen on windows with good refresh rate won't solve your windows issues?
For me, the issue is the rendering of the text on Windows. Microsoft keeps insisting on razer thin text. You can adjust the text in certain parts of the OS, but it's not consistent across apps and even within portions of the OS itself, it is not consistent. They need to provide a bold text look throughout the OS.
Glad they brought back fbx export! Thanks to those who managed to persuade the management responsible for development.
Screen not clear sir...re-record your video pls
Thanks for the feedback. I'm still working on figuring out the best mix of camera, microphone, and capture software. Lighting is also a problem as I'm still in my utility closet. Once the my new architecture studio is completed with construction, I'll have much better lighting and can get much better quality video out.
Archicad 27 preview 2 is ask license how get license
They are using a cloud license system, and you can look on you graphisoft account online to see if your AC27 license is available. If you don’t have one, you’ll need to sign up for the technology preview on the landing page for AC27
Hello from Italy. Is ArchiCad 27 improved on apple silicon? I read about problems with ArchiCad 26, thanks!
It’s been running smoothly for me except on rare occasions it crashes when editing text. Graphisoft already reached out to me for more info so they can fix the glitch.
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@@alessiogri2166I switched to an M1 Mac Mini this January and no issues running AC26. OK, absolutely no issues would be a lie and was never and will never be true. :) I have no issues than I had with previous Archicads running on my older Imac.
If the renovation system worked properly, design options wouldn't be needed. Or at least they would work as a Function of the renovation system.
That is a very interesting point. I do agree the renovation system would be nicer if it, like Revit, could have multiple renovation phases. Especially in healthcare, it is not uncommon to have multiple phases in the same project as mission critical operations for a hospital must stay up and running throughout construction, and to achieve this, multiple phases of construciton are required.
I strongly disagree. The reno. system was a workaround for a feature not available.
@@zoltanszabo4242 I dont know what you mean by this. Reno was a a work around?? for what?
How did you include texture in the .dae file?
It's been a while since this methodology is no longer working for me. I'm hoping to do another video soon to show how to achieve this same function but with greater ease and reliability.
That doesn't really look like a physically based render kernel in the 3D window. It feels more like an Ambient Occlusion (AO)-based shader, which is pretty standard nowadays in a lot of other 3D software out there today (Rhino, Maya, Max and even Revit has a display mode that utlises AO-based shading). The tell would be the fact that you don't have any real-time updating reflections on reflective surfaces and the soft shading and shadowing only occurs around tight corners or close proximity geometry (that's pretty much what AO-based shading uses to achieve that effect without additional light sources.) But they do say it's experimental, so I'm hoping they're still working the kinks out and by the time it gets out of "experimental" phase it will be a full-functioning physically-based renderer that even has basic reflections and more accurate transparency/translucency. Otherwise it's a misleading misnomer. It just feels like they just ported a version of the 3D engine/kernel they now use for the new version of BIMx Pro into the mothership program, and yeah,.....that's not a physically-based renderer either. Although an improvement on the previous engine, it's still just an AO-shader. Again, software like Rhino are vastly several lightyears ahead of ArchiCAD when it comes to the display options and modes for the 3D window (including home-brew version of their own physically-based realistic renderer AND a real-time sketch rendering mode. Imagine that. Imagine having a sketch-based mode to work on in 3D in realtime with no lag) In terms of the other features, I still feel like this is a weak upgrade in the sense of thenew features they have. Design Options and interactive dimension guides are nice - but as the only Architecture-focused features, it still makes for weak upgrade, particually given the fact that they are several years and versions late in adopting those features into the program. I'm giving them something of a pass for ArchiCAD 27 since I know it comes at an "in-between" period before they made this course-correction to try to make a better effort to deliver a better upgrade after several weak version upgrades focused on structural and MEP. But that only means that version 28 had better be their best version ever. They're losing a lot of credibility fast ("they" being Graphisoft), and that's soon going to translate to customers and revenue too, if they're not too careful.
Thanks for this information. I'm definitely not the best at knowing the specifics of 3d graphics technologies. I agree it is a "weak" upgrade, but still VERY welcome. My eyes are much happier as a result. True RTX in the 3D window in Archicad would be such a welcome feature.
how do you get the cabinets manufactured?
Usually, I try to choose standard sizes, but there are many cabinet makers in my area who build custom.
Why would you use Archicad when you can use Revit?
Because Revit crashes continously and is very slow
Modelling and schedules are faster and easier to create, faster learning curve, can be used on both major operative systems, and Perpetual License, just to name a few. My only complain is some architectural tools need to be improved and seem to be left aside in favor of tools for engineers, wonder from which book that page was taken from?
For me, many reasons, including: ease of editing models in 3D perspective mode, dual platform Windows/Mac, compatibility including ability to import export RFA and RVT files, ability to drag and drop PDF, DWG, XLS, DOC, and SKP files into a view, ability to create linetypes, hatch patterns, and more within the app with no plugins, a project navigator and publisher that is sheet based so you don't have to make sure a layout is centered in view for the publish to PDF doesn't hang the titleblock off the page, use of layers, linetypes, etc. and many many more. Oh yeah, and perpetual licensing is still a thing.
@@ColorBlindArchitect Lol you guys seriously pay for this? Why not just download a crack ?
@@2dbaddiepostedonmybed I believe in honesty and integrity. If someone does work for me, I pay them. In this case, the software didn't just materialize out of thin air, it is the result of scores of highly dedicated programmers whose salaries are paid through us, the end users, paying legally for said software. So yes, I seriously pay for this. It is a business expense that has provided a HUGE return on investment. I would also recommend avoiding cracks as they often contain viruses, trojan horses, and malware. I can understand if you're not yet able to make money using this software, and in that case, Graphisoft does offer a free student version. But if you are making money using software, it is the right thing to do to pay the people who make it so they can feed their families. Not paying would be the same as a client refusing to pay the architect claiming, "it's just digital files."
PLease make your Archicad brighter and clear
Thanks for the feedback. I'm still learning screen capturing software and trying to find the software solution and settings that work the best.
@@ColorBlindArchitect You use Filmora? OBS?
@@NBCNothingButCrap , I had been using RecordIt on the Mac because it is super simple and easy. On PC, I use OBS. I didn't realize OBS had a Mac version, so I'll try that for the next video. Not interested in Filmore because it's a Wondershare product and every Wondershare product I've tried has been trash.
@@ColorBlindArchitect Yeah.. OBS quite simple and powerful. I dont have Mac device, planning to get one but I need to wait till Apple Silicon can fully handle UE5, especially Lumen and Nanite. I still looking for best screen recording method / software out there. I even bought Elgato HD60X device, still doesnt help. Recording from my monitor ( 4K & 2K ) still blurry, not crispy.
Yes this true.. Plese archicad must be bright then u tho.. But thanks for video..
incredible
We're moving from Civil3D to ArchiCAD currently and this is a huge issue for us ... :(
I use Revit, Archicad and Vectorworks.. If I need to choose one of those 3 software for my primary.. I'll go for Archicad. 2nd is Vectorworks. Now I need to wait for Archicad 27 for official release. Those new features seems help my workflow a lot . Thanks for the review.
I want to know why you chose Archicad instead of Revit
@@mixmap1039 Actually they both good. It just depend on you. I like Archicad because it look professional, parametric assets library, Revit look old school, but Revit easy to learn. You need to try both then you'll know, but still depend on your need tho.
💞 'promo sm'
finally a good video 🎉🎉🎉
Peace and God's mercy be upon you. Do you have an idea when the Revit program will be supported for the Macbook system without the need for Parallels?
I do not have any information on that. I do not see Revit coming natively to the Mac anytime soon though because the underlying software architecture of Revit is built on Microsoft and Nvidia technology.