HAPPY New Year...

A New Year offers new opportunities, and is also a good time to look at how we do things.

Even though  the office has a QA system  sometimes the simple things are missed!

REMEMBER:

Transmittals

·         The use of Transmittals is not optional. Except where pre-agreed alternatives are in place, such as Team binder.

·         They must be filled out when drawings are transmitted. Good practice is to include a PDF copy with the sent drawings.

Drawings

·         Drawings must not leave the office without a revision (email/print). If there is any contractual dispute, document identification is absolutely essential.

·         A drawing (print, PDF, DWG etc. output) filename must include the project number. This requires editing output names in publisher , so as to avoid editing filenames every time.

·         A drawing (print, PDF etc.) must contain the revision letter in the filename. This can be manually done after publishing, or before by editing filenames in publisher.

This is all  spelt out in the GBA Office Manual, in the Essential Procedures section

GUIDES:

Wanting to get up to speed with ArchiCAD? The ArchiCAD interactive training guides are a great resource of material, and are downloaded on our server for your use:

-05 Project Resources\05.100 Archicad Support\05.102 Archicad Reference\AC15\8 Archicad Interactive Training Guides.

Some are a little old (dating from v12 and 13) but the Collaboration Guides are for 15. Launch 15, open the pla files and follow the guides…(for all guides ignore instructions about running exe files – just place in your Graphisoft folder as per instructions).

Perhaps you don’t have the time to work through these? The corresponding “eGuides” in PDF format have been copied out for casual browsing with minimal setup headaches – in the eGuides folder, and have also been made available on the GBA iPads. A5 size booklet sets of each has been printed and bound, available  for reference too.