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90,000 fans, 200,000 views - let's celebrate ArchiCAD!

The ArchiCAD page on Facebook now has more than 90,000 fans. In February 2011 I remarked in a blog post how awesome it was that there were 15,000 fans for ArchiCAD – now it’s 6 times as awesome!

We are NOT alone – in fact we’re in good company – there are tens of thousands of ArchiCAD-lovers around the world.

I don’t have 90,000 fans myself, but I’m pretty proud of the fact that my ArchiCAD Tutorials YouTube channel has 191,727 views as of this moment. I’m expecting it to reach 200,000 views within the next few days! I invite you to join my 937 subscribers so you get notified whenever I post another one of my free ArchiCAD tutorials.

In celebration of these milestones, I’m uploading some more free content onto my channel – so YouTube will have the first 6 lessons from my QuickStart Course. This 29 lesson course teaches the basics of using ArchiCAD, but it’s not only for new users. I’ve had veteran users watch some of the lessons and comment “when did they add that feature?” and “I never realized you could do it THAT way… cool!”

The QuickStart Course - ArchiCAD basic training by Eric Bobrow

CELEBRATE WITH ME – BOTH ARCHICAD TRAINING COURSES ON SALE NOW

PLUS – I’m putting both of my courses on sale for this week.

You can sign up for the complete QuickStart Course (13 hours of easy-to-follow video lessons) for only $127, or two payments of $67.

OR… you can go for the whole enchilada – the entire Best Practices Course, with over 60 hours of high-quality material (including the entire QuickStart Course) for only $597, a savings of $100 – or get in today for only $97 per month on the convenient extended payment plan.

The Best Practices Course - ArchiCAD training by Eric Bobrow

The Best Practices Course has one more EXTRA special feature as a free bonus – a complete ArchiCAD Coaching Program. When you register for Best Practices, you can send in your questions any time to me, and I’ll answer them during one of my live webinar training calls. These 90 minute sessions are held 3 times each month at different times of day to accommodate viewers from all over the world (sometimes we’ve had 5 continents represented on one call – whew!) and are also recorded for later viewing.

For more info, or to sign up during this special sale, please visit:

If you’d like to gain more mastery of ArchiCAD, check out my courses.

They’ll give you tremendous benefit, and help you get the most out of our favorite BIM software!

Eric Bobrow

P.S. These special offers run through March 31, 2012.

TOPIC: ArchiCAD social media, ArchiCAD training

My Latest ArchiCAD Tutorial: How to Trace 2D Drawings to Quickly Create a 3D Model

ArchiCAD Tutorial Video | How to Trace 2D Drawings to Quickly Create a 3D ModelMy latest ArchiCAD tutorial shows how to bring in 2D drawings (in this case, DWG files) as a tracing reference to make it easy and fast to create an accurate 3D model. This approach can be used for modeling existing buildings from CAD files, or taking a design from 2D CAD into a 3D model quickly for presentations or model coordination.

Many interesting ArchiCAD topics are covered, including the creation of worksheets, importing DWG files, setting up Virtual Trace for the plan and elevations to show the corresponding 2D drawings in proper alignment to the model, and some complex manipulations of ArchiCAD library doors and windows to match the original design drawings.

UNIQUE FEATURE: TWO VERSIONS OF THIS ARCHICAD TUTORIAL

I have prepared this 44 minute ArchiCAD tutorial video as a condensed version of a 90 minute recording made in “real time” that shows every step along the way. This excerpted version leaves out some less essential details as well as much of the repetitive drawing and data entry. Both versions are available on this ArchiCAD tutorial page here on this website.

On this page I also give an outline for the key steps in this process that you can refer to if you want to do the same thing on your own.

I look forward to getting your comments, questions and feedback.

Eric Bobrow

My latest free ArchiCAD video tutorial - How to Label Elements Automatically

I have just completed another in my series of free ArchiCAD video tutorials, which you’ll find on my ArchiCAD Tutorials YouTube channel.

ArchiCAD Tutorial | How to Label Elements AutomaticallyArchiCAD Tutorial | How to Label Elements Automatically
http://youtu.be/s_8czLAbuJA

ArchiCAD Label Tool – The Little-Known Symbol Option

This 21 minute tutorial shows how to use the Symbol option in the Label tool to automatically label objects, doors and windows with their ID, ensuring coordination of annotation with schedules and other drawings.

Tips are included for how to apply this approach on plan to label furniture and equipment, and in elevation and section drawings to place markers for doors and windows.

There is also a demonstration of how to use ArchiCAD’s Element ID Manager to automatically number or renumber doors and window in any desired sequence.

Eric Bobrow

P.S. You’ll find more free ArchiCAD tutorials on my YouTube channel as well as here on this website.

If you like my free ArchiCAD tutorials, you’ll love my ArchiCAD training course – the Best Practices Course – a comprehensive training on how to use ArchiCAD effectively.

Included in Best Practices, and also available separately, is my ArchiCAD basic training – the QuickStart Course, a step by step training in the basics of ArchiCAD. It’s good for newer users as well as veterans who want to refresh their knowledge of the core principles in recent versions of ArchiCAD.

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