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Tue 25.09.01
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26.09.01 see webboard - Hmmm.... I guess 16.2a is just a CD issue of 16.2 with service release 2 already applied?
27.09.01 see webboard - No, there are some improvements - one I have noticed is that the Help text in the 'Advanced' settings of the Import dialogue is now in English. www.allplan-usa.com are going to put up a 'What's new in 16.2a' soon.
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Wed 19.09.01
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Tue 18.09.01
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Mon 17.09.01
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22.09.01 - Persevered with the Demo - even worked through the
Tutorial. Ummm... to be honest I was disappointed. I have great admiration
for Graphisoft as a company and what they have achieved and there
are many happy Archicad users out there and I can see that at a glance
the product seems attractive. However once you get into the nitty-gritty
of modelling in 3D, for me it does not really work. The whole approach
is so modular rather than allowing you to create your own 3D objects
(unless you are a 'script-kiddie' :), and you cannot move around the
3D view in real time - you have to stop, move, stop, move and the
'photo' render is not very good and slow. You cannot seem to 'walk'
through the design in real time unless I am missing something, I could
not see anything about tracing over scanned-in images or much about
2D drawing tools generally although they must be there since there
are elevations etc in the supplied models. The context-related right-click
menus are very limited in scope. I do not see how it could cope with
free-form windows, sloping walls and suchlike - although such things
may be achievable by advanced users. On the plus side you can have
arrows on the end of lines (!) and auto-balustrading to stairs, the
properties boxes are clever and there is a 'smooth' integrated look
to the interface. Interesting to see the package and try it out (honest!) and while I can understand why some designers would like it - no offence, but it's not for me. I came to the same conclusion last year when I researched Archicad extensively and had a full dealer demonstration here in the office before choosing Allplan FT. |
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Wed 12.09.01
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DaimlerChrysler choose Allplan... a Nemetschek press release about the deal with DaimlerChrysler to use Allplan to redesign all their showrooms - available in the 'press release' section of cadconsulting-usa.com or in the original German version of last week at nemetschek.de
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Mon 03.09.01
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I am told that this new scheme being run in the UK only (as far as I know) is actually a Leasing arrangement for those who want to spread out the cost of buying Allplan - with the benefit to the user that they own the software at the end of the lease period. This seems better than the Revit and Autodesk methods which are endless rentals where you never actually own the package and ultimately pay more than an outright purchase.
Best Wishes... to Emil Metchikian who leaves Nemetschek today to return to Architecture.
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Sun 02.09.01
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"...It was a great opportunity to prove our ability to exchange data with other software platforms using IFC, DGN and DWG and DXF formats. Surprising was
that neither other vendor [Autodesk & Bentley] was able to export and import in all the data formats – just Nemetschek!" [My emphasis]
Update 03.10.01 - just noticed a review of Teamwork 2001 in the RIBA Journal - slipped in near the end of the article is a mention that a lack of IFC compatibility in Microstation prevented full exchange of model information. (There is no truth at all in the rumours circulating afterwards that the whole event was 'rigged' to favour Microstation!)
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Fri 31.08.01
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Wed 29.08.01
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Update 31.08.01 - allplan-usa.com now have Nemetschek press releases link on the front page of their site.
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Tue 28.08.01
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Castle by..?
Raised a smile when I looked through the post this morning... a flyer for
a software package featuring a large picture of Neuschwanstein Castle -
turn the card over and it's from Graphisoft! (the castle being on Nemetschek's
doorstep in Bavaria I wondered if it was a coincidence - made me chuckle
anyway). The marketing and rolling demonstration roadshow for Archicad is
relentless in the UK - must be costing them a bit.Sensible name... I notice that allplan-usa.com have now called their link to the webboard 'Allplan User Group' - good idea.
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Sun 26.08.01
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12 months on and tenlinks.com for Allplan still looks a bit thin compared to tenlinks.com entries for Archicad or Autocad or Graphisoft (Hey! how come Graphisoft get 2 entries?) or Microstation or Turbocad (!).
On a not-unrelated note I was telephoned recently by someone from the IT and CAD 'analysts' Cambashi.com wanting to know about Allplan support and what I thought about a trend by some CAD companies towards web-based support to cut costs. ... never did find out why they wanted to know... (suggestions on a postcard to the usual address? :)
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Fri 17.08.01
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Mon 13.08.01
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It seems to take about a month for the online version to appear on the cadserver.co.uk website but most UK Architects will receive a free copy anyway.
Also a feature review of the 'D-Board' by Nemetschek elsewhere in this issue and a mention of the release of version 16.2 of Allplan FT.
Holidays - while wandering around the Zeppelin museum
in Friedrichshaven last week I was pleasantly surprised to come across the
original drawings of the competition winning entry in the Allplan student
competition mentioned recently (see
News Archive ) for a Zeppelin hangar (as below).
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(note that these animations change every few months)
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Fri 27.07.01
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Thur 24.07.01
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Wed 24.07.01
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Update 14:00 - Don't know what's happened but they're back!! :)
Update 19:00 - Even better news! www.allplan-usa.com (same site as www.cadconsulting-usa.com but shorter to type!) are going to translate the best of the FAQs and put them up on their site within the next few weeks.
I also notice they have added the cute little (free) CAD viewer and mark-up program 'Capri' to their download site. (There are some postings to the webboard lately about how to use Capri - under 'Rendering/Presentation'.)
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Thur 19.07.01
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Cinema
4D XL v 7.1 -
there's no stopping those talented people at Maxon - v7.1 just released
- a free upgrade to v7 users.
US users
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Wed 18.07.01
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FAQs
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There seem to be some ongoing improvements to the German language FAQs
on nemetschek.de with a
search facility added recently and almost daily updates to the general
list of FAQs - not all of them are for Allplan but interesting if
you can understand the language or make use of the www.systransoft.com
web page translation facility. (A reminder that English language FAQs
are available on www.cadconsulting-usa.com's
website under 'Support' - they are useful but not as up to date as the
German ones.)
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Tues 17.07.01
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More v16.2 - More good news - the text editor now seems to default to 'paragraph text'. :-)
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Sat 14.07.01
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More
v16.2 -
Save/Load customised window layouts! Brilliant.
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Fri 13.07.01
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v16.2
received today -
as usual many more things have been added than are described in the 'What's
new guide'. The most immediately useful feature is the 'docking' option
for the animation window. Again, as usual they've been playing around
with the shortcut menus! Project Attributes seem to be accessible now
(or more likely are easier to find) to single users. Still trying to get
the hang of using the clipboard feature.
More soon...
More
16.2 -
The Help file seems rather better... Ah... got it, for Copy by Clipboard,
select elements, use the 'Copy' on the 'Edit'
menu - see the Help (or 'Hilfe' as it still says on the Help application
menu bar) - see topic 'Using the Clipboard'
for detailed instructions.
This gets better!... you can now rotate copied objects with the '+'
and '-' keys while they are on the end of
the cursor awaiting positioning - excellent... still does not work for
the old way of copying though - and so the first thing to do is to make
shortcut keys for the new commands or copy their icons onto a usable toolbar
('Tools->Customise') although 'Paste
to original position' does not have an icon... Presumably to make
it harder to copy elements into the original drawing files by mistake.
First glitsch - Something has happened to
the assigning Shortcut keys error pop-up within the 'Tools->Customise'
dialogue, there is no text on the pop-up except 'Yes' and 'No' - but what
is the error and what are the options for?
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