There should be a "Proper Debate" thread. I was just reading through another thread, where x-jIa commented about Non, Chad, and b3ta not being to debate properly. Others were mentioned too.
It should be a spectator event, multiple rounds, random (but relevant) topics, refs, and participation trophies.
Feb 17, 23 5:45 pm ·
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Arch2
You want to give a fascist moron a platform to spew hate filled nonsense?
If you've been around long enough you'll know that those "debates" have happened all over this website. Good luck finding them though because the majority of them have been lost. This is because jla usually says something bad enough that the mods determine it's better to nuke all his posts and block him from those threads. Look up just about any of the Covid threads, Politics Central, anything dealing with school shootings, BLM protests, anything before mid 2020(?) in Thread Central, etc.
You'd be better off just blocking his posts and living your life.
I really don't know why the site allows x-jla to stay. I know who he is and his firm. He doesn't act like this in person. He does post stuff like this anonymously on other forums though. He's a coward.
I'm aware of MTG, but I don't know who "LB" is. Either way, I would be keen on a debate thread, if only because debating about issues that actually affect my livelihood (and the livelihood of others on various other topics) gets tiring, and seeing these debates quarantined would be a nice change of pace.
Feb 20, 23 7:07 am ·
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ill_will
Arch2 you're so close to entertaining me... I'm waiting for an all caps comment before you can get your gold star.
Jovan, I hadn't thought of it quite like quarantining, I like it. Posts would stay on topic and we wouldn't suffer the pollution in mass threads like TC.
Feb 20, 23 10:14 am ·
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proto
LB = Lauren Boebert, I’m guessing.
I just went over to see that thread. I posted in it but somehow didn’t see the back/forth upthread. What a shitshow…
The grass is always greener I guess. Coming from the residential world, I'd love to work on a school! Sucks to have to use your weekend to do it though.
Oh this school is located in a mountain town with the nickname 'Crusty Butt'. I think the name comes from their draconian town counsel and design review board that literally has rules like "a wainscot of corrugated metal panels are allowed to be 1'-6 1/2" high. Special permission may be granted to allow said wainscot to be 1'-8 1/2" high for public buildings.'
If there are illegal crossings, they are likely INTO Canada, not the growing cesspool on this side of the border. I have a lot of friends in northern VT and I haven't heard a peep about there being an immigration issue.
Chad - Maxime Bernier would be the closer parallel to a Trump/Desantis politician in Canada. Its also worth noting that the tweet image above doesn't really make any sense, people in Canada are definitely not trying to cross into the States, much more so the other way around. Beyond the CBC article posted above, its also good to point out that Canada has a much more accepting immigration/refugee settlement attitude than further south. The main complaint that Legault is making has to do with the concentration at one particular boarder crossing location that has been deeply reported on for years.
panda - it's like that here as well. People from CO can't seem to drive worth shit in the snow. It's like they think that having a truck allows you to go fast and stop quickly in snow.
Feb 22, 23 10:56 am ·
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Non Sequitur
oooooh, snow. it's winter (for some). what a surprise!
I like a good thunder snow! We get about one of those storms a year. Currently bracing for a 8-12" dusting that the news stations are doing their best to hype up.
Feb 22, 23 4:20 pm ·
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JLC-1
much ado about nothing here in the Rockies, front range may be getting more snow and colder temps.
Played hooky with my son today and hit the jackpot with a blower pow day skiing! Face shots all day…had to clear a foot of snow off the truck when we left… :)
It hasnt stopped snowing in my part of the great white north in over a week. A spectacular northern lights show was to be seen last night as far down a the 'Merica boarder, but too much snow and clouds at my house
I too am participating in that thread just to extend out the timeline and to see if x-jla will blow up, go on another racist and bigoted tirade and get his posts deleted. I still find it odd that he won't act like this in person. In fact he even tries to portray himself as a moderate who won't discuss politics, religion, or race.
I think the thread has done its job so far, considering it's somehow distracted jla enough to not spread shit onto other threads. Like a diseased cat with a toy.
Yup. I figured I'd engage him enough to get him going so he'll just be invested enough in the thread and keep posting 'responses' to no one. I'm done with the thread.
Could the Big Green Head make it so x-jla could only post in the dumpster thread? Then he couldn't say his free speech is being infringed upon and yet he'd be confined to one place where he could just talk to himself. It could work.
Jovan - schrodinger's cat lol except the cat is insane and nobody wants to open the box. Chad - this is a band-aid solution, it'd be better if there was a sub-group for the annoying posts (similar to how one can filter out academia).
I doubt anyone would classify their posts as 'annoying'. Having the admins classify posts would be a nightmare for everyone.
Feb 27, 23 5:11 pm ·
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ill_will
eh idk, maybe it could be like uber, where we give eachother ratings
Feb 27, 23 5:13 pm ·
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Non Sequitur
Even Ricky wrote a reasonably concise and informed supporting response to my comment earlier today. There is a silver lining in this glorious burning trash inferno.
I find it odd that I work at a small firm (13 people) and we know how to use Revit better than the huge firms we sometimes partner with. It's like basic stuff too, nothing fancy.
What I'm enticed by is the use of ai to assist me with mundane and joyless tasks. I heard recently that AI isn't going to "replace" workers per se, but that it will create professionals that use AI and those that don't. I want to be the one that does.
I'll certainty use AI when it becomes available. From what little I've seen so far AI isn't able to do much to handle the mundane and joyless tasks with any accuracy.
To delete all the new walls. They then had to do another dozen steps to get it to it work right.
I just go into the REVIT model and use select all instances - delete - done.
I actually have upcodes open right now to cite code references on a hotel project I'm working on. I've seen that you can pay for various things but I never have done so. Is it worth the cost?
Mar 1, 23 9:20 am ·
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SneakyPete
You can put in elements of your path to compliance and they will pull up portions of the code that are pertinent, and let you know if you might have problems.'
I didn't realize that UpCodes had that function. I knew they allowed cutting-and-pasting, which would be more convenient than the free iCodes that I use.
I've used the UpCodes online service - it's ok but found it to be a bit redundant as I already know the codes well enough to know where to look. I know UpCodes has a plug in for REVIT but I haven't used that one, yet. It's supposed to assist you with the code design of a building. AKA - find me a 2 hour fire barrier with these types of finishes and a certain stc rating . . .
Mar 1, 23 1:46 pm ·
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b3tadine[sutures]
They discontinued the add-in for Revit unfortunately.
Mar 1, 23 1:57 pm ·
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proto
I paid for upcodes access this past year & it's been very helpful for quick hit calcs & building summary checks & quick reference searches.
BUT I've also been in contact with their customer service more than I'd like correcting calcs that weren't working out (like frontage increases over 75% in the last code cycle calcs; or legit occupancy groups getting negated from a multistory scenario for unknown reasons). Def take it with a grain of salt or review with someone who knows the real calc issues so you don't get caught w/ your pants down on permit intake.
They have a very good reason to have excellent customer service. If they have incorrect info, the ICC, which hates them, would use that as ammo in their lawsuits.
That's weird, your post doesn't show up in the thread.
Mar 1, 23 9:48 am ·
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Archinect
None of your comments have been removed. We closed commenting on that thread a while ago. Any attempts to post a reply to an existing comment won't get posted at all.
My insurance company made insulin free a year ago.
Too bad insulin is not the most expensive part of treating type 1 diabetes. It's the insulin pump supplies.
I still spend $4,000 a year on healthcare because it's my out of pocket max. That's not including the $300 a month it cost to insure me. Even with the cap on insulin it would cost me around $30K a year to treat my diabetes.
Back in South Bend this week, doing energy assessments. This is a dumb question, but does anyone have a recommendation for an *easy to understand* website that explains what constitutes energy efficiency in building construction? Like, if in Zone 5 we require windows to be .20 U-factor minimum, how much above that code minimum is considered "high efficiency"? I have cobbled together everything I can find in the code and at the DOE website and others, but it's all so wordy and technical. I'm looking for something fun and easy to share with the nonprofits I'm working for.
This document is what we used as the basis for R-value recommendations for the Pretty Good House approach: https://buildingscience.com/si... It's a bit technical but written by John Straube so there is some humor in it.
Of course I'd like to think that we made it accessible in the Pretty Good House book but since you just saw co-author Chris present on the topic, I'm guessing that doesn't meet your needs?
A short dip into his online presence shows his company, Cross Properties to be involved in several lawsuits for kicking out low income and rent controlled tenants.
In addition, windowless bedrooms must be in a sprinkled building.
well... windowless bedrooms are 100% not permitted anywhere up here the frozen north building codes so there are no city officials granti
ng occupancy or architects stamping them. I'd like to see this hack's research.
They can be allowed in the US under certain conditions. The tricky part is that the local AHJ often won't allow it.
I've done an adaptive reuse project in a metro area where bedrooms only had borrowed light. Think a warehouse conversion to apartments.
There were strict limitations on the construction types, sprinkler system to be used, and mechanical ventilation. In addition there were requirements for how large the borrowed light openings were, distances to the the exterior windows, and how large the exterior windows had to be.
and what about egress? codes were developed to prevent unsanitary and potentially deadly situations, this is like going back to the dark ages, only without the fun of dying at 32.
Mar 7, 23 2:14 pm ·
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Non Sequitur
Chad, we have some provision that could allow for borrowed light... but the bedroom can only be enclosed 40%... so like a partly screen-off bachelor pad with the "bed" tucked away from the windows. But then again, the window size need to be increased to compensate with daylight and the depth of residential unit is shortened. No other ways around it.
JCL - In terms of egress - I'd suggest you look at the IBC - it allows bedrooms without windows if you comply with various fire ratings and reduced travel distances.
I'm not advocating for windowless bedrooms, quite the opposite.
The interesting thing is that it's generally more costly (about 2x) for you do to a windowless bedroom in new construction than it is to have windows.
Non - that's pretty much what I recall in the one project I worked on with windowless bedrooms. I don't believe there was an 40% enclosure max at the time (IBC 2008). If there was then the local AHJ didn't adopt it. Like I said before, there were a bunch of other very complex requirements that had to be met. It very well may have been a local amendment to the IBC because of the prevalence of this existing building type. Honestly I can't remember.
Mar 7, 23 2:56 pm ·
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bowling_ball
JFC NS, get creative. Label the spare room as "Office" and move on.
Chad, this made me laugh. I am converting an old hotel into office spaces, a supposed scheme to save money for the city I live in. Each suite is now on office and each one has a 3 piece bath. Except the ones that I had to blow out to make barrier free washrooms, they are only 2 piece.
In Toronto, borrowed light is standard AF. It is not nice but absolutely everywhere in new construction. In Japan also illegal to have bedroom without window. Natural ventilation, and percent of sunlight must be calculated and submitted as part of approval for every occupied room in a building. Can do borrowed light and it is relatively common when units are deeper than wide, similar to North America. Often those rooms are tatami, with sliding fusuma, so it feels almost OK. Still not what I would call nice or good...
Mar 8, 23 11:41 am ·
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Non Sequitur
will... can only do "borrowed" under the OBC (toronto) if the bedroom is considered part of a living space with windows. Not to say people aren't putting up walls afterwards tho...
Mar 8, 23 12:16 pm ·
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Almosthip
Chad - more like the city council thought they could take a really old hotel, that's not even sprinklered, and turn it into a B3 care facility for chronic homeless people. But once the found out that the hallways and doorways were not big enough lots of thought went into using it as offices for city staff instead to try and save face.
NS, yeah that is the pattern. Always part of living space, with sliding doors. Basically, bed is in the kitchen. In Toronto I am renting part of a Victorian home that is awkwardly refurbished, but it beats the hell out of all the condos I saw that relied on borrowed light. There are a few buildings in the city that have plans as good as say what was standard in the 60's, but they are so rare it beggars belief (and very expensive). Clearly more money to be made by using the trick than not...
I got a call from an angry developer a few years ago looking for an architect to do windowless dwelling units. He wanted no windows at all, not even borrowed light. He wanted me to find the way through the code. For free of course because since he works speculatively so should everyone else. Developers are always such losers.
otto desc, really? what a nefarious company, can't improve in their software but have to spend money to make a bad joke....frustrating to be kidnapped by this kind of corporation
Autodesk now is pursuing vfx instead of improving aec software, same old gimmick, "the new toy" gets all the attention while their proved and functioning product goes to trash.
I can see all of the comments. They are mostly x-jla saying that cities implementing the concept of the 15 minute city violates people's liberties / freedoms and will destroy local economies. X-jla then says that 15 minute city's are good but only if they are created 'naturally'.
I think the mods aren't allowing x-jla to post in the forums so he's posting on the articles. I find this odd since the big green head previously said that only users who weren't anonyms could post in the article comments. I guess that changed. ;)
i don't understand how anyone could be opposed to a walkable city. i think most cities around here are encouraging multi-use masterplanning with zoning ordinances and incentives. there just isn't anything dystopian there.
Ooohh. This explains it. Ive also got X muted, which leads me to believe that when they create a comment, and then respond to themselves over and over, it just blocks the entire view. All good, nothing to see here.
I almost got into it but thought better. It always amuses me how the self-professed "free thinker" on here so consistently regurgitates - sometimes word for word - right wing media narratives. We're all in a bubble but at least I realize I'm in a bubble.
Yeah it is weird how much x-jla's posts all follow the same pattern and script from right wing media narratives. The guy can't think for himself and he can't keep track of all the lies he spews. It's really quite sad.
i think the problem is his libertarian u-cant-tell-me-what-to-do tendencies are at odds with the preplanning of communities and spaces and general organization of society -- not sure why people feel that anarchy is a good model for modern life, history offers many lessons in why not
X-jla doesn't want to be told what to do but he wants to tell others what to do. As long as he benefits from it then he doesn't care who it hurts. He's a selfish hypocrite.
Not for fun, exactly, but for dopamine--the rush of "being right" and "owning the libs" and "proving a point." I think he honestly believes that he has a unique perspective and sees truth where others do not, just like everyone else who idolizes Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. (I think Rogan and Peterson make some good points on occasion but overall they are not good for their demographic.)
Using view templates to isolate the room separator lines and turn them pen 8 and bright purple is a joy... then select all and delete. Damn it, why do the int-des in the office use room separator lines to mark-off cubicles, workstations and other fuzzy shit?
We have our room separators set to 'the' red color. It prints super light - so light you can barely see it. We also have a detail line that is #1 Working that is 'the' red color and our thinnest line weight.
Mar 16, 23 11:55 am ·
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Non Sequitur
Our lightest is 0.05mm. Better than halftone because it still prints black.
Yeah I'm thinking that it has to do with the plotters we have access to in our area. I bet at one time that that was the thinnest we could print, maybe now we can go thinner. I have made one change to graphics though - all material hatches - cut or projection are a 50% greyscale. I think it makes things much more readable. Then again, I'm a big line weight NERD!
In the last year or two I've started adjusting the transparency of hatches; it makes a big difference! I also make dimensions 20% transparent so they don't overwhelm the drawing.
I had such an excellent experience yesterday, I went to this amazing equine therapy organization and OMG it's the best example of completely and truly universal design I've ever seen!
They use horseback riding to provide educational and therapeutic services to people of every kind of ability you can imagine: old, young, mental, social, physical. And EVERY part of their facility is arranged to accommodate effective and comfortable access to the tools needed to saddle, mount, and ride a horse then demount, clean, and feed the horse. And it's all within a group of humble pole barn buildings!
They also treat their horses like employees, in the best sense: when the horses get burned out from too much human contact they get a "vacation" in a field far away from humans.
I'm doing energy assessments for nonprofits in two Indiana cities, the cities then give them reimbursement to do an energy efficiency project. So I get to meet nonprofits, tour their facility, and learn about their mission, then do a facility assessment.
Here's a daily dose of kooky "futuristic" design to bring TC back into the fold on this glorious tuesday morning. The name popped up in a news piece and I remembered his blog posts. The digital files for all this can be yours for the low sum of only 17.5million dollars? But they'll be worth hundreds of millions... maybe even trillions?
Keep clicking through the links in his profile. it varies... but looks like he collected a bunch of random online diplomas and is now doing a design degree. It's quite the trip if you're looking for a diversion.
Thread Central
There should be a "Proper Debate" thread. I was just reading through another thread, where x-jIa commented about Non, Chad, and b3ta not being to debate properly. Others were mentioned too.
It should be a spectator event, multiple rounds, random (but relevant) topics, refs, and participation trophies.
You want to give a fascist moron a platform to spew hate filled nonsense?
If you've been around long enough you'll know that those "debates" have happened all over this website. Good luck finding them though because the majority of them have been lost. This is because jla usually says something bad enough that the mods determine it's better to nuke all his posts and block him from those threads. Look up just about any of the Covid threads, Politics Central, anything dealing with school shootings, BLM protests, anything before mid 2020(?) in Thread Central, etc.
You'd be better off just blocking his posts and living your life.
I really don't know why the site allows x-jla to stay. I know who he is and his firm. He doesn't act like this in person. He does post stuff like this anonymously on other forums though. He's a coward.
It would be the ideal environment for chaos, its fun to watch people crumble ;)
Then watch that screeching baboon MTG and the retarded librarian LB on C-SPAN. Leave Archinect alone.
I'm aware of MTG, but I don't know who "LB" is. Either way, I would be keen on a debate thread, if only because debating about issues that actually affect my livelihood (and the livelihood of others on various other topics) gets tiring, and seeing these debates quarantined would be a nice change of pace.
Arch2 you're so close to entertaining me... I'm waiting for an all caps comment before you can get your gold star. Jovan, I hadn't thought of it quite like quarantining, I like it. Posts would stay on topic and we wouldn't suffer the pollution in mass threads like TC.
LB = Lauren Boebert, I’m guessing.
I just went over to see that thread. I posted in it but somehow didn’t see the back/forth upthread. What a shitshow…
No one is stopping you from making such a thread. You don't need to get TC's permission or something if you want to start a dumpster fire.
I'm still working on ground rules and a scoring system that people will definitely ignore.
It's a Sunday and I'm in the office trying to masterplan a K-12 addition for a proposal. Uhg.
Just plan for 5th and 6th grades and forget the rest. Nobody will notice.
The grass is always greener I guess. Coming from the residential world, I'd love to work on a school! Sucks to have to use your weekend to do it though.
Oh this school is located in a mountain town with the nickname 'Crusty Butt'. I think the name comes from their draconian town counsel and design review board that literally has rules like "a wainscot of corrugated metal panels are allowed to be 1'-6 1/2" high. Special permission may be granted to allow said wainscot to be 1'-8 1/2" high for public buildings.'
That level of pedantic control over aesthetic should be considered illegal under freedom of expression laws.
I need to confirm this information from a reputable source up north, are you really trying to invade us?
Follow up question, is it related to maple syrup?
If there are illegal crossings, they are likely INTO Canada, not the growing cesspool on this side of the border. I have a lot of friends in northern VT and I haven't heard a peep about there being an immigration issue.
^Into Quebec, specifically... and Quebec is dusting off it's old racist self under the guise of "protect our french heritage". See here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...
So François Legault is your version of Ron DeSantis? Does that mean Québec is just your version of a french speaking Florida?
HAHAHAHA
Chad - Maxime Bernier would be the closer parallel to a Trump/Desantis politician in Canada. Its also worth noting that the tweet image above doesn't really make any sense, people in Canada are definitely not trying to cross into the States, much more so the other way around. Beyond the CBC article posted above, its also good to point out that Canada has a much more accepting immigration/refugee settlement attitude than further south. The main complaint that Legault is making has to do with the concentration at one particular boarder crossing location that has been deeply reported on for years.
Good to know. I figured it was all a bunch of BS.
We're supposed to get thunder snow. My high desert community is freaking out. My old northern Minnesota self is just sitting here like 'bring it'.
Fear not Chad. Us folks over in the D are at the hands of Texans and Californians alike attempting to drive in .5 inches of snow. Pray for us.
Midwest got hit with freezing rain, brrr.
panda - it's like that here as well. People from CO can't seem to drive worth shit in the snow. It's like they think that having a truck allows you to go fast and stop quickly in snow.
oooooh, snow. it's winter (for some). what a surprise!
I know. February and snow. Who could of thought this would happen?!
We got Blizzo! We're all good.
I like a good thunder snow! We get about one of those storms a year. Currently bracing for a 8-12" dusting that the news stations are doing their best to hype up.
much ado about nothing here in the Rockies, front range may be getting more snow and colder temps.
the actual story today was threats phoned to several school districts by some disturbed individual. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colorado-schools-lockdown-aspen-boulder-threat-b2287521.html
Played hooky with my son today and hit the jackpot with a blower pow day skiing! Face shots all day…had to clear a foot of snow off the truck when we left… :)
It hasnt stopped snowing in my part of the great white north in over a week. A spectacular northern lights show was to be seen last night as far down a the 'Merica boarder, but too much snow and clouds at my house
Bets on how long the dumpster fire thread stays at the top of the list?
Is coffee involved? Because if it is... I'm sure I can edge the results in my favour. 8-)
I say another six weeks. By then x-jla will get his posts banned and the BGH (all praise it's wisdom) will lock the thread.
I'm not trolling I'm accelerating.
It hasn't been a week yet, hard to say. I think two (full) weeks. Has j-lax been posting on other threads as well as the dumpster fire?
I think just the dumpster fire.
I too am participating in that thread just to extend out the timeline and to see if x-jla will blow up, go on another racist and bigoted tirade and get his posts deleted. I still find it odd that he won't act like this in person. In fact he even tries to portray himself as a moderate who won't discuss politics, religion, or race.
That's not surprising to me at all. Many people I know that spew hate online tend to hide behind the "apolitical moderate" thing in public.
I think the thread has done its job so far, considering it's somehow distracted jla enough to not spread shit onto other threads. Like a diseased cat with a toy.
Yup. I figured I'd engage him enough to get him going so he'll just be invested enough in the thread and keep posting 'responses' to no one. I'm done with the thread.
Could the Big Green Head make it so x-jla could only post in the dumpster thread? Then he couldn't say his free speech is being infringed upon and yet he'd be confined to one place where he could just talk to himself. It could work.
Jovan - schrodinger's cat lol except the cat is insane and nobody wants to open the box. Chad - this is a band-aid solution, it'd be better if there was a sub-group for the annoying posts (similar to how one can filter out academia).
I doubt anyone would classify their posts as 'annoying'. Having the admins classify posts would be a nightmare for everyone.
eh idk, maybe it could be like uber, where we give eachother ratings
Even Ricky wrote a reasonably concise and informed supporting response to my comment earlier today. There is a silver lining in this glorious burning trash inferno.
wonder why people leave and dont come back
I've been thinking about doing just that. There is a serious decline in the site overall, not just the forms.
twitter is down, so I'll be around here more today!
Hey! Chatgpt is pretty cool for Revit.
This is going to make all of our lives better!
When my Revit crashes I just leave for the day. If computer doesn't want to work I don't either.
I want to click on the link but I'm scared to . . .
It's a youtube video showing how to use ChatGPT to delete all walls in a Revit model
Hey, I don't need an AI to fuck up my models. I just need to give a general task to another cowroker and they'll do a better job than the AI.
I find it odd that I work at a small firm (13 people) and we know how to use Revit better than the huge firms we sometimes partner with. It's like basic stuff too, nothing fancy.
What I'm enticed by is the use of ai to assist me with mundane and joyless tasks. I heard recently that AI isn't going to "replace" workers per se, but that it will create professionals that use AI and those that don't. I want to be the one that does.
I'll certainty use AI when it becomes available. From what little I've seen so far AI isn't able to do much to handle the mundane and joyless tasks with any accuracy.
In the link above they use:
To delete all the new walls. They then had to do another dozen steps to get it to it work right. I just go into the REVIT model and use select all instances - delete - done.
The ChatGPT is still interesting.
I wish ChatGPT could automate filling out code compliance sheets for me.
Have you used Upcodes? They are quickly approaching something akin to this I think.
I actually have upcodes open right now to cite code references on a hotel project I'm working on. I've seen that you can pay for various things but I never have done so. Is it worth the cost?
You can put in elements of your path to compliance and they will pull up portions of the code that are pertinent, and let you know if you might have problems.'
I've found it to be cost worth paying, just for the code calculator.
I didn't realize that UpCodes had that function. I knew they allowed cutting-and-pasting, which would be more convenient than the free iCodes that I use.
This is interesting;
I've used the UpCodes online service - it's ok but found it to be a bit redundant as I already know the codes well enough to know where to look. I know UpCodes has a plug in for REVIT but I haven't used that one, yet. It's supposed to assist you with the code design of a building. AKA - find me a 2 hour fire barrier with these types of finishes and a certain stc rating . . .
They discontinued the add-in for Revit unfortunately.
I paid for upcodes access this past year & it's been very helpful for quick hit calcs & building summary checks & quick reference searches.
BUT I've also been in contact with their customer service more than I'd like correcting calcs that weren't working out (like frontage increases over 75% in the last code cycle calcs; or legit occupancy groups getting negated from a multistory scenario for unknown reasons). Def take it with a grain of salt or review with someone who knows the real calc issues so you don't get caught w/ your pants down on permit intake.
They have a very good reason to have excellent customer service. If they have incorrect info, the ICC, which hates them, would use that as ammo in their lawsuits.
how come my comments on this keep disappearing?
That's weird, your post doesn't show up in the thread.
None of your comments have been removed. We closed commenting on that thread a while ago. Any attempts to post a reply to an existing comment won't get posted at all.
but it's such a good project...
Dare I ask what project?
Nevermind, I found it.
oh ok thanks
Looks like Costco is getting ready for the cordycep apocalypse.
Too bad the fungus is already in that food. I'm stocking up on ammo, arrows, and insulin. :)
you must be happy about the price cap today!
My insurance company made insulin free a year ago.
Too bad insulin is not the most expensive part of treating type 1 diabetes. It's the insulin pump supplies.
I still spend $4,000 a year on healthcare because it's my out of pocket max. That's not including the $300 a month it cost to insure me. Even with the cap on insulin it would cost me around $30K a year to treat my diabetes.
Balkins is absolutely bringing it in the comments section this week.
It was terribly edgy and brave.
Back in South Bend this week, doing energy assessments. This is a dumb question, but does anyone have a recommendation for an *easy to understand* website that explains what constitutes energy efficiency in building construction? Like, if in Zone 5 we require windows to be .20 U-factor minimum, how much above that code minimum is considered "high efficiency"? I have cobbled together everything I can find in the code and at the DOE website and others, but it's all so wordy and technical. I'm looking for something fun and easy to share with the nonprofits I'm working for.
I'm not in the US but I always found the Energy Star program just about the easiest to understand. Here's an example of a project and what the outcome looks like, from their website: https://www.energystar.gov/buildings/building_recognition/designed_earn_energy_star
This document is what we used as the basis for R-value recommendations for the Pretty Good House approach: https://buildingscience.com/si... It's a bit technical but written by John Straube so there is some humor in it.
Of course I'd like to think that we made it accessible in the Pretty Good House book but since you just saw co-author Chris present on the topic, I'm guessing that doesn't meet your needs?
In case it's not clear, absolutely no snark intended in my response above.
Dangit, Wood Guy, I totally forgot I meant to buy the book after the seminar and I still haven't! Going to do it now.
Thanks for that bowling_ball, I have found the Energy Star info really easy to udnerstand!
Well it's the start to another week of ::meh::
I'm just glad to be going on vacation in a week. Time to click thru Revit for a week. Yayyy...
I'm going on vacation in a few months. Until then things are going to be ::meh::
there's a guy on twitter promoting windowless bedrooms, I just can't...
A short dip into his online presence shows his company, Cross Properties to be involved in several lawsuits for kicking out low income and rent controlled tenants.
In addition, windowless bedrooms must be in a sprinkled building.
well... windowless bedrooms are 100% not permitted anywhere up here the frozen north building codes so there are no city officials granti ng occupancy or architects stamping them. I'd like to see this hack's research.
They can be allowed in the US under certain conditions. The tricky part is that the local AHJ often won't allow it.
I've done an adaptive reuse project in a metro area where bedrooms only had borrowed light. Think a warehouse conversion to apartments.
There were strict limitations on the construction types, sprinkler system to be used, and mechanical ventilation. In addition there were requirements for how large the borrowed light openings were, distances to the the exterior windows, and how large the exterior windows had to be.
and what about egress? codes were developed to prevent unsanitary and potentially deadly situations, this is like going back to the dark ages, only without the fun of dying at 32.
Chad, we have some provision that could allow for borrowed light... but the bedroom can only be enclosed 40%... so like a partly screen-off bachelor pad with the "bed" tucked away from the windows. But then again, the window size need to be increased to compensate with daylight and the depth of residential unit is shortened. No other ways around it.
JCL - In terms of egress - I'd suggest you look at the IBC - it allows bedrooms without windows if you comply with various fire ratings and reduced travel distances.
I'm not advocating for windowless bedrooms, quite the opposite.
The interesting thing is that it's generally more costly (about 2x) for you do to a windowless bedroom in new construction than it is to have windows.
Non - that's pretty much what I recall in the one project I worked on with windowless bedrooms. I don't believe there was an 40% enclosure max at the time (IBC 2008). If there was then the local AHJ didn't adopt it. Like I said before, there were a bunch of other very complex requirements that had to be met. It very well may have been a local amendment to the IBC because of the prevalence of this existing building type. Honestly I can't remember.
JFC NS, get creative. Label the spare room as "Office" and move on.
^everything is now an office!
Why does my office have a lav and wc in it?
Shut-up real-estate lady, this bedroom has an oven in it.
Chad, this made me laugh. I am converting an old hotel into office spaces, a supposed scheme to save money for the city I live in. Each suite is now on office and each one has a 3 piece bath. Except the ones that I had to blow out to make barrier free washrooms, they are only 2 piece.
Is it a new concept on the live / work project type?
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In Toronto, borrowed light is standard AF. It is not nice but absolutely everywhere in new construction. In Japan also illegal to have bedroom without window. Natural ventilation, and percent of sunlight must be calculated and submitted as part of approval for every occupied room in a building. Can do borrowed light and it is relatively common when units are deeper than wide, similar to North America. Often those rooms are tatami, with sliding fusuma, so it feels almost OK. Still not what I would call nice or good...
will... can only do "borrowed" under the OBC (toronto) if the bedroom is considered part of a living space with windows. Not to say people aren't putting up walls afterwards tho...
Chad - more like the city council thought they could take a really old hotel, that's not even sprinklered, and turn it into a B3 care facility for chronic homeless people. But once the found out that the hallways and doorways were not big enough lots of thought went into using it as offices for city staff instead to try and save face.
NS, yeah that is the pattern. Always part of living space, with sliding doors. Basically, bed is in the kitchen. In Toronto I am renting part of a Victorian home that is awkwardly refurbished, but it beats the hell out of all the condos I saw that relied on borrowed light. There are a few buildings in the city that have plans as good as say what was standard in the 60's, but they are so rare it beggars belief (and very expensive). Clearly more money to be made by using the trick than not...
I got a call from an angry developer a few years ago looking for an architect to do windowless dwelling units. He wanted no windows at all, not even borrowed light. He wanted me to find the way through the code. For free of course because since he works speculatively so should everyone else. Developers are always such losers.
Whew! I got my money out of Silicon Valley Bank a day before the FDIC took it over! Hope those VC pigs choke.
I wonder why they never did a feature like this with Aravena https://archinect.com/news/art...
PR is a helluva drug.
Jordan Peterson, ftw?
I’m too afraid to click, sorry!
#sad
otto desc, really? what a nefarious company, can't improve in their software but have to spend money to make a bad joke....frustrating to be kidnapped by this kind of corporation
What joke?
this, https://twitter.com/OttoDesc
Autodesk now is pursuing vfx instead of improving aec software, same old gimmick, "the new toy" gets all the attention while their proved and functioning product goes to trash.
I do not understand what I'm looking at. Is this some satirical parody account I don't get?
Anyone else having trouble seeing the conversation about the 15-minute cities article? It says there are 26 comments but i only see 4... ?
Same. I can see 8 comments, including one by X-lax that I can't read because I've blocked them.... ?
I can see all of the comments. They are mostly x-jla saying that cities implementing the concept of the 15 minute city violates people's liberties / freedoms and will destroy local economies. X-jla then says that 15 minute city's are good but only if they are created 'naturally'.
I think the mods aren't allowing x-jla to post in the forums so he's posting on the articles. I find this odd since the big green head previously said that only users who weren't anonyms could post in the article comments. I guess that changed. ;)
I did not know that a cacti decorator could opine about urban design and social sciences.
that's crazy. there is a comment from jla in there and then he responded pretty much just to himself 10 times.
Yup. The guy has issues.
i don't understand how anyone could be opposed to a walkable city. i think most cities around here are encouraging multi-use masterplanning with zoning ordinances and incentives. there just isn't anything dystopian there.
Ooohh. This explains it. Ive also got X muted, which leads me to believe that when they create a comment, and then respond to themselves over and over, it just blocks the entire view. All good, nothing to see here.
I almost got into it but thought better. It always amuses me how the self-professed "free thinker" on here so consistently regurgitates - sometimes word for word - right wing media narratives. We're all in a bubble but at least I realize I'm in a bubble.
Yeah it is weird how much x-jla's posts all follow the same pattern and script from right wing media narratives. The guy can't think for himself and he can't keep track of all the lies he spews. It's really quite sad.
i think the problem is his libertarian u-cant-tell-me-what-to-do tendencies are at odds with the preplanning of communities and spaces and general organization of society -- not sure why people feel that anarchy is a good model for modern life, history offers many lessons in why not
X-jla doesn't want to be told what to do but he wants to tell others what to do. As long as he benefits from it then he doesn't care who it hurts. He's a selfish hypocrite.
I think he trolls for fun.
Not for fun, exactly, but for dopamine--the rush of "being right" and "owning the libs" and "proving a point." I think he honestly believes that he has a unique perspective and sees truth where others do not, just like everyone else who idolizes Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. (I think Rogan and Peterson make some good points on occasion but overall they are not good for their demographic.)
I have to agree with WG. X-jla believes what he posts. That's why he gets so mad when he's proven wrong or when people don't agree with him.
hehe
Why earmuffs and a toque? Also, is that a pipe in that doctor's pocket or is she just happy to see me?
the pipe, the ufo, the pie and the crown are always there
good luck in your brackets, archinect!
keep the video on the second monitor small today
context? I'm on vacation so I'm not paying attention to anything.
Is proto referring to sports?!?
Too early for hockey. Can't be sports
College basketball is going on right now.
currently drawing room separators in revit and now I have smooth operator stuck in my head.
Using view templates to isolate the room separator lines and turn them pen 8 and bright purple is a joy... then select all and delete. Damn it, why do the int-des in the office use room separator lines to mark-off cubicles, workstations and other fuzzy shit?
We have our room separators set to 'the' red color. It prints super light - so light you can barely see it. We also have a detail line that is #1 Working that is 'the' red color and our thinnest line weight.
Our lightest is 0.05mm. Better than halftone because it still prints black.
Our #1 line is 0.0762 - it's about as fine as most US printers can go. We still use halftone hatches and lines though.
Chad, we have a 0.025mm line type. Shows up fine on the printer. It’s used for graphic overrites.
And it’s our default batt insulation line type.
Yeah I'm thinking that it has to do with the plotters we have access to in our area. I bet at one time that that was the thinnest we could print, maybe now we can go thinner. I have made one change to graphics though - all material hatches - cut or projection are a 50% greyscale. I think it makes things much more readable. Then again, I'm a big line weight NERD!
In the last year or two I've started adjusting the transparency of hatches; it makes a big difference! I also make dimensions 20% transparent so they don't overwhelm the drawing.
I had such an excellent experience yesterday, I went to this amazing equine therapy organization and OMG it's the best example of completely and truly universal design I've ever seen!
They use horseback riding to provide educational and therapeutic services to people of every kind of ability you can imagine: old, young, mental, social, physical. And EVERY part of their facility is arranged to accommodate effective and comfortable access to the tools needed to saddle, mount, and ride a horse then demount, clean, and feed the horse. And it's all within a group of humble pole barn buildings!
They also treat their horses like employees, in the best sense: when the horses get burned out from too much human contact they get a "vacation" in a field far away from humans.
My heart is so full.
Amazing, Donna, are you working with them?
I'm doing energy assessments for nonprofits in two Indiana cities, the cities then give them reimbursement to do an energy efficiency project. So I get to meet nonprofits, tour their facility, and learn about their mission, then do a facility assessment.
If I were to ever become wealthy all I'd do is design buildings for nonprofits. For free. That would be a good life.
the horses get to go to a field away from humans? i need to add that to my list of job requirements.
say hello to Babylove. We are just friends from a public access stable near me.
Here's a daily dose of kooky "futuristic" design to bring TC back into the fold on this glorious tuesday morning. The name popped up in a news piece and I remembered his blog posts. The digital files for all this can be yours for the low sum of only 17.5million dollars? But they'll be worth hundreds of millions... maybe even trillions?
Looks like the guy learned how to use the circular array tool and liked it so much he stuck with it for 15 years.
Apparently he's got a "patent" for it.
I should contact him and offer to buy his 'designs' for $5.
that's a generous offer... but I'm not flush with cash and not able to offer 400% above value like you.
I didn't say I'd actually pay him for the 'designs'. I'd just offer him $5 for it. ;)
but it could generate trillions!
Boo, big green head nuked my back&forth with the nut. I had one on the hook but did not have enough time to play with my prey...
Wait - he was posting here recently? How did I miss that!?
Dude posted here claiming they were a better fit for the job.
Who is this guy? He's been in school since 2008?
Keep clicking through the links in his profile. it varies... but looks like he collected a bunch of random online diplomas and is now doing a design degree. It's quite the trip if you're looking for a diversion.
Here, I'll save you the hunting...
http://architecturalideas14.bl...
classic architect thought process:
Buzzfeed interview listicle
Summary: NYC architect says he's low paid, two people make more than him.
For some their ego can't handle that their clients make more money than they do.
I get that. It's easy to assume that if a client knows very little about design or construction they are dumb in all facets of life.
Only a self centered, egotistical fool would think that their client was stupid in all aspects of life just because they're not an architect.
Paid low?!?! I'll be happy if I make that at the tail end of my career :/
Making 140k and rooming, what a loser
https://twitter.com/brittlesta...
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