Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, BIM, Modeling, Presentation, Project Management
Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Trelligence Affinity is a unique software solution for the worldwide AECO industry, focused on the early planning, programming, and design stages of building projects. The new plugin allows architects to use Google SketchUp’s 3D editing capabilities to combine the powerful data & analysis tools in Affinity for visualization and client presentations, while maintaining the link [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, BIM, Books, Design, Drafting, Google SketchUp, Modeling, Plug-ins, Project Management
Thursday, November 17th, 2011

While reading a particular topic in SCF I learned about Northern Lights Timber Framing and their very informative site which is a must for any designer involved in timber frame construction. There are lots of demo videos and even some Rubies available for download. Clark Bremer of Northern Lights has made great use of Google [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Project Management
Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Designing is one thing and management is another! Many architects and designers that I know just hate the bookwork end of the job, me included. I have been reading about Architype’s Project Management system and from what I see, it looks like they have developed a pretty efficient system that allows for easy ‘one place’ [...]