Messing with Chronology
The Mega-Dots! puzzles are on Amazon, I’m back to blogging, and many more projects in the works!
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | May 29, 2015 | Digital, Translators | 0 |
The Mega-Dots! puzzles are on Amazon, I’m back to blogging, and many more projects in the works!
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Oct 12, 2009 | Digital, Panelization, Practice, Structures, Visual Basic | 1 |
I’ve been slacking a bit on the blog because of a good deal of traveling. While in New York, my wife and I visited Frank’s Beekman Tower, a project on which I did nearly all of the facade rationalization and...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Sep 18, 2009 | Digital, Practice | 0 |
I can’t say enough good things about Nuri Miller. He’s the unsung hero of GT Knowledge Services (which is a fucking hard job–I did it for a year.) He does most of the work in the KS department and...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Sep 14, 2009 | Digital | 0 |
Are you instantiating powercopies and you keep getting a message about formulas? It’s annoying and screws up your workflow. Here are few solutions to avoiding the warning message. First off, you are probably using DP R3...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Aug 22, 2009 | Digital, IFC, Practice, Representation, Scripting, Translators, Visual Basic | 0 |
Grant Soremekun came to me recently with an inquiry about the VB IFC Export. He had the latest service pack installed his version of DP (SP3 + Hotfix) and couldn’t get the IFC file to generate with the standard export...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Aug 15, 2009 | Digital, Fabrication, Practice, Representation, Scripting, Structures, Visual Basic | 0 |
Once again, I received a good technical question about one of my codes on the GTWiki. This time, the user found a bug when they ran the script on a series of objects. Here’s their question: I ran the code. After...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Aug 11, 2009 | Digital, Practice, Scripting | 1 |
Recently, I was asked if DP/CATIA VB had a better method for finding objects than FindObjectsByName. Short Answer: No. Long Answer: Yes, but with a lot of work and it’s not worth it. First off, FOBN is a method at the...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Aug 10, 2009 | BIM Contracts, Digital, Practice | 0 |
The AEC World Expo 361 recorded an interview between Dennis Shelden and Frank Gehry. http://aecworldexpo.com/sites/edesign/website/361/index.html?speaker=2353 The video is divided into two segments, the interview and a...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Aug 7, 2009 | Digital, Panelization, Scripting | 10 |
A week ago, I took a question from the discussion page on my PowerCopy Instantiator Script: In regards to the Powercopy Instantiator Macro: I know this tool works, if at least used in a certain manner, because someone posted a...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Aug 4, 2009 | Digital, MEP, Practice, Scripting, Structures, Visual Basic | 0 |
Hanging MEP runs can be a pain if you don’t have a 3D wireframe. We received a bunch of solids earlier this week which need to be DP SysRouting runs. Unfortunately the topology VB scripting commands are good for shit, so...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Aug 3, 2009 | MEP, Translators, Visual Basic | 3 |
Today I needed to figure out a way to manage several hundred megs of MEP solids imported from Revit into DP. These consisted of many parts housing thousands of end surfaces and HVAC/plumbing solids. Eventually we’ll...
Read Moreby Nicholas Pisca | Aug 2, 2009 | Digital, Fabrication, Rendering, Scripting, Visual Basic | 0 |
I’ve been getting several emails over the last few weeks about my Balcony Project since my department lecture at UCSB MAT. This was the digital experiment I developed in 2006-7 to test variable connections fabricated from...
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