Friday 06 April, 2012

Abvent has released new export plug-ins for ArchiCAD 14, 15, SE 2011 and SE 2012 export plug-ins to Artlantis 2, 3 and 4.

Fixes:

in ArchiCAD, when the geometry was too far from the origin, it would cause an offset of the position in Artlantis when merging a scene or using the Use Reference File command;

When updating an Artlantis 2 scene with objects through the ArchiCAD export plug-in's Use Reference File command, the geometry disappeared.

 Artlantis Pricing and Ordering

 Download the Artlantis 30-day Demo

 Download the Export Plugins

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Thursday 05 April, 2012

It has been a while since we've heard from ArchiCAD Guru, Eric Bobrow on his training courses. Over the past few months, he's been hard at work, developing more lessons for The Best Practices Course. The Best Practices Course is organized as a series of 29 modules totaling more than 24 hours of material. Each module contains 3 or 4 lessons totaling about 45-60 minutes.

This month, marks the 6 month anniversary of The QuickStart Course. The QuickStart Course is a set of easy to understand training videos that will take you from starting up ArchiCAD all the way through creating a complete building with construction documents.

The offer is a combination of a price discount (QuickStart cut from $197 to $127, Best Practices reduced from $697 to $597) and payment plans (QS for two payments of $67, BPC for $97 per month x 7 months). This offer is for a limited time only, so order your ArchiCAD training courses today!

 The Best Practices Course Pricing and Ordering

 The QuickStart Course Pricing and Ordering

 The 7 Keys to Best Practices FREE Video Series

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Sunday 01 April, 2012

Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog of Gobbler's Knob predicted a long winter this year. The weather is finally starting to warm up, flowers are in bloom, and butterflies fill the air. This means Spring has sprung and it's time for you to spring into action.

We've got four of the Artlantis plant media volumes on sale through May 14, 2012: 3D Pines & Conifers, Asian Trees, Exterior Plants 1 and Exterior Plants 2. These sets have various species of plants at various stages of growth.

The 3D Pines & Conifers volume includes 24 photo-realistic 3D models of trees. The 3D Asian Trees volume includes 20 photo-realistic 3D models of trees. The objects on both of these volumes are created from Bionatics seeds.

The Exterior 3D Plants 1 volume consists of 95 photo-realistic close-up capable 3D plants. The plants are adjusted automatically in their development of leaves (color, amount, size.) The Exterior 3D Plants 2 volume consists of 185 photo-realistic plants and trees. The plants have various stages of growth, starting from seedlings to fully grown plants. This volume contains a choice of plants from different latitudes.

 Spring has Sprung Pricing and Ordering

 Preview 3D Pines and Conifers

 Preview 3D Asian Trees

 Preview Exterior 3D Plants 1

 Preview Exterior 3D Plants 2

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Friday 16 March, 2012

Check out this awesome animation from Francisco Vidigal, an architect out of Lisbon.

The Liberdade Atrium is a luxury development which represents a new quality of life in the Centre of Almada. With residential, commercial, leisure activities, plenty of green spaces and excellent access, the Liberdade Atrium is the ideal retreat in the city center.

Francisco used ArchiCAD for modeling, Artlantis for rendering (both version 3 & 4) and Adobe Premiere for composition. Adobe After Effects was used to add the soap bubbles.

 Watch the Video

 Download the Artlantis 30-day Demo

 Artlantis Pricing & Ordering

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Wednesday 07 March, 2012

ArchiTiles is a plug-in that uses API technology to improve the performance of ArchiCAD, You can use it for planning, setting, and making calculations for laying tiles on surfaces such as floors, walls, and ceilings.

You can use tiles from the ArchiCad library or create your own with ArchiTiles in square, rectangular, or customized shapes. Various colors and textures can also be added, as well as commercial information such as manufacturer, price per square meter or per tile etc.

ArchiTiles is available as part of the ArchiSuite ArchiCAD plug-ins bundle. Through the add-ons palette, ArchiSuite simply provides access to all the Cigraph add-ons present in the add-ons folder.

 Watch the Video

 Download the ArchiSuite Demo

 ArchiSuite Pricing & Ordering

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