Last month I had my mind totally blown. I’m talking a full on Michael Bay summer blockbuster explosion. You see, as much as I write about automation here at ArchSmarter, I’ve never had a systematic approach to automation. Sure, I can create a Revit macro or Dynamo graph with the best of them. But I […]
Why You Need Checklists for Everything
“OK, I need to copy these files over here. Then I have to rename these other files to. . . oh, I can’t remember. Here it is on this scrap of paper. I knew I had it somewhere.” I was a twenty-two year old architectural intern with a freshly minted B.Arch degree. “OK, once that’s […]
Want to Learn Dynamo? Here’s How.
I learned to automate Revit the hard way. I was tired of wasting time doing tedious stuff like renaming views and creating sheets. I wanted Revit to work for me. Back then, the only way to automate Revit was to learn to program. So I poured through programming books and Internet forums. After hundreds of […]
How I Cleaned Up My Inbox and Saved My Sanity
My inbox was a mess. I couldn’t find anything. I was losing track of client emails. I couldn’t find emails I had tagged as “important”. At one point, after a particularly busy day away from the office, I had over 500 new messages dutifully waiting for me when I finally got around to checking my email […]
The Ultimate Sketchbook Guide
I previously wrote about my love of sketchbooks here on ArchSmarter. That post drew a lot of comments from like minded designers with recommendations for their favorite sketchbooks. I went on to purchase most of these sketchbooks for the sake of <ahem> research. Yes, I have a sketchbook problem. Rather than let all this research go to waste, I put […]
Why I Still Use a Sketchbook
I was in a full panic. I got to the hotel when realized I left my sketchbook in the cab. I was freaking out. I called the cab company and explained, with a mounting sense of urgency, what happened. “You forgot your sketchbook? What’s that? Some kind of laptop?” “No,” I explained “It’s a notebook with good […]
