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Mon 22.04.02
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Maxon say (with delicious understatement) that they are 'on course' and not troubled by the current upheaval.
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Tue 09.04.02
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Wed 03.04.02
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it occurred
to me that I was probably the only person on board that was trying to figure
out how to model it in Allplan... sad, I know! :-)
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Sat 23.03.02
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Wed 20.03.02
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The accompanying pdf file just says it fixes some problems with copying between files and trimming walls.
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Tues 19.03.02
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Go on... make the webmaster's day and click on the 'I love it' option in the vote for the new website survey link! :)
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Sun 17.03.02
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the Nemetschek Webmaster has kindly posted a link to the German version of 'What's new in v17' on the German Allplan Forum... However - if my translation is correct - the link will not be active until they have completed beta testing... which seems fair enough.
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Fri 15.03.02
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Still, we wouldn't want to upset our friends in Munich would we, and so I have taken out the links to my copy also.
more in response to my earlier comments (see Sat 09.03.02) Nemetschek say they are working hard to attend to these issues as soon as practicable.
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Wed 13.03.02
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Wed 13.03.02
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Perhaps this is part of the 'new look' Nemetschek described in the press release of late last year (10th December) for the beginning of this year...
more: yes, the entire site has now also been done. Quite smart in a corporate sort of way - must have a look around... certainly easier to navigate than the old site - good cross-referencing of pages...
Hmmm, there is now a gallery section... you can send in your projects - free if you have a SSA it seems... lot of emphasis on Allplan LT, there seem to be 2D and 3D versions - the 3D version seems little different in appearance from Allplan FT but I expect something has been left out - it would be interesting to know what they have done with the project structure in these products. You have to wonder where Vectorworks fits into this budget CAD picture?
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Sat 09.03.02
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Not in v17 Beta 1? -
a big
disappointment is that as far as I can tell at the moment, nothing appears
to have been done about the balustrading in the stairs module - you cannot
produce proper balustrading automatically (unlike in Archicad) with a
range of alternatives (to meet Building Regulations standards) but you
have to model balusters individually for every new stair;
>> There seems little or no hope that they will ever include arrows
(or a choice of symbols) on the end of leader lines but it irritates the
hell out of me every single day as it takes around 9 clicks to insert
an arrow symbol and rotate it into position whereas in my old CAD system
it used to be done completely automatically! (On a typical detail drawing
there may be 50 arrows on the end of leader lines!)
>> if we can plot live plan views I don't really see why we cannot
plot live elevation, isometric and section views? (People actually expect
this now of a 3D package - possibly because of Revit - and are surprised
when I tell them that Allplan cannot do this.)
>> also long overdue is some help in using the DTM with the built
model - the DTM is an engineering tool not an architectural one. Worse,
outside of the US it is an expensive add-on anyway.
I am sure everybody will have their own views on this.
Please
Email any comments or suggestions for the list... (it's unlikely to
make any difference anyway!)
-:)
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Mon 04.03.02
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more an English language version must be around somewhere as I hear there is a training course soon in v17 and other things for support staff.
more 2 I notice that CDS-Sieber the Swiss distributor is running one of their Allplan User meetings (lucky people!) on 26th April - on the programme is not only Allplan v17 but also I was intrigued to notice mention of Plandesign v 3...
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Sun 03.03.02
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A good framework to build on for the future.
To reach the index place your mouse pointer over 'Support' on the front page of their site and then click 'FAQs' in the list that appears
Notice also that Service Release 3 for Plandesign FT 2.5a has been added to their download page (freeware section).
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Tue 26.02.02
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| "Over the years, I have made it no secret that I loathe the product. Many ADT customers use it for 2D drafting, happy to use it as an AEC flavor of AutoCAD, nothing more. When Autodesk UK was looking for ADT case studies, they couldn't find anyone using it as a 3D SBM system, so have actually had to recruit, train and equip an architect to carry out a pilot project using ADT as its developers intended." |
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Tue 26.02.02
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Perhaps I should go away more often? :)
my friendly Engineer tells me that is the 3rd IBM hard drive that has died on him recently at around 12 months after installation. We're now using Maxtor 5400 speed drives.
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Fri 15.02.02
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Wed 06.02.02
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Congratulations - to Horst and colleagues at www.cadconsulting-usa.com on the relaunch of their website. Well worth a visit and browse.
Update - Another redesigned site CDS Bausoftware AG - excellent stuff :)
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Tues 05.02.02
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More Different line weights for different construction layers has also been mentioned in the past, as have some improvements to the stair module for dealing with landings (but still no auto balustrading apparently!), some sort of command history feature... Hmmm, sounds like the assistant window allows you to pull up a reference drawing which you can then pick elements or parameters off (?)... the only thing for sure is that the 'Whats new in v17' is 160 pages long!
We will just have to wait and see.
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Mon 04.02.02
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UK supply details and spec sheets from Andy Hankins at www.eighty-20.com
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Thur 31.01.02
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Wed 30.01.02
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I think this is a problem generally for Architects brought up in the traditional drawing disciplines to let go of the 2D approach...
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Fri 18.01.02
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Wed 09.01.02
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Mon 07.01.02
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What can we expect from Nemetschek this year?
Well, the German home site is already trailing 'Allplan LT' amongst other new products (possibly only for the home market?);
there is the 'new look' Nemetschek mentioned late last year for early this year;
Allplan v17 should be launched during the year and I guess a further push into the English language markets is likely.
A good start - a surge of updates and additions to the German FAQ database
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