BUILDING DESIGNS MADE SIMPLE VIA ARCHICAD

WHAT IS ARCHICAD?

ARCHICAD is the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software application used by architects, designers, engineers and builders to professionally design, document and collaborate on building projects.

Building information modelling (BIM) is a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places. Building information models (BIMs) are files (often but not always in proprietary formats and containing proprietary data) which can be extracted, exchanged or networked to support decision-making regarding a building or other built asset. Current BIM software is used by individuals, businesses and government agencies who plan, design, construct, operate and maintain diverse physical infrastructures, such as water, refuse, electricity, gas, communication utilities, roads, bridges, ports, tunnels, e.t.c.

A wide range of software applications are integrated in ARCHICAD to cover most of the design needs of an architectural office:

2D CAD Software :  Drawing tools for creating accurate and detailed technical drawings.

3D Modeling Software — A 3D CAD interface specially developed for architects capable of creating various kind of building forms

Architectural Rendering and Visualization Software : A high performance rendering tool to produce photo-realistic pictures or videos

Desktop Publishing Software: With similar features to mainstream DTP software to compose printed materials using technical drawings pixel-based images and texts

Document Management Tool : A central data storage server with remote access, versioning tool with backup and restore features

Building Information Modeling Software: Not just a collection of the above-mentioned applications with an integrated user interface but a novel approach to building design called BIM.

WHO NEED ARCHICAD?

1. Quantity Surveyor: The role of the professional quantity surveyor is to provide information with regard to the initial and future costs so that sound financial factors – inter alia – are considered by the design team.  ArchiCAD provides the following for a Quantity surveyor:

• Provide fast, effective and efficient quantity take-off and cost estimation.
• Produce reliable and accurate quantities as well as competitive cost estimates.
• Auto computation of calculations reduces human errors.
• Generate cost estimation reports categorized according to areas, blocks, concrete grades, subcontractor and other relevant reports and this increases the speed of deliverables.
• Improve visualisation of the elements/items for measurement and minimise omissions.
• Hand over project to another party more quickly and reduce double handling.
• Enhance communication and collaboration amongst team members. Improve cost database management which reduces loss of information.

2. Building Technologist: A building technologist design, plan and supervise a construction projects. In order to do so effectively, there is great need for them to understand the architectural plan of the building or projects under construction. With ArchiCAD, building technologist can easily design, interpret and detect errors from a building plan.

3. Architect: We don’t need to discuss in details the reason why an architect need ArchiCAD. From the name its implies that it is an Architectural Software.

4. Engineers: For complete construction of a building, the following categories of Engineers are needed namely: Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers and Electrical Engineers. ArchiCAD which is a BIM software enables the engineers to carry out their role effectively, efficiently and easily.

Feel free to contact me for help on any of the softwares.

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20 JOBS FOR SOLIDWORKS USERS (2017)

The importance of Solidworks to the field of Engineering cannot be over-emphasized as Mondern-day Engineering companies rely fully on this software to solve designs problems. Below are list of companies urgently in need of Solidworks Users.

• Solidworks designer

Roush Enterprises - Livonia, MI 48150

• Industrial Designer

Eaton - Peachtree City, GA 30270

• Designer/Drafter

Daikin Applied - Plymouth, MN 55441

• CAD Designer/Drafter II

thyssenkrupp - Germantown, TN

• CAD Designer w.Solidworks

Leidos - Natick, MA 01760

• Primary/Senior Designer (Lifecycle/Sustaining)

Mammotome - United States

• Designer/Drafter II

Rexnord - Cudahy, WI

• Design Engineer

Pentair - Warwick, RI 02886

• Designer - Product

Fossil Group - Richardson, TX

• Drafter

Thermo Fisher Scientific - Logan, UT 84322

• Engine Component designer – UGNX and Solidworks skills require…

Onward Group - United States

• Design Engineer

JBT Corporation - Apex, NC

• Mechanical Designer [TEMP]

Teledyne Controls - El Segundo, CA

• Mechanical Engineer

Intel - Phoenix, AZ 85018

• Primary/Senior Designer (Lifecycle/Sustaining)

Hach Company - Cincinnati, OH

• Mechanical Design Engineer

ViaSat - San Diego, CA

• Design Engineer

Johnson Controls - Plano, TX

• Designer III

IMI Precision Engineering - Auburn, WA

• Mechanical Engineer (Gamajet)

Alfa Laval - Exton, PA

• Mechanical Designer

Innovative IDM - Carrollton, TX 75006

Check their respective websites for details of the job. This is just to tell you that the sky is your starting point if you develop yourself fully on Solidworks. Feel free to contact me.

LISTS OF COMPANIES USING PYTHON

APPLICATION OF PYTHON IN THE REAL WORLD

Every year there is a great demand for Python Users by numerous companies around the world. Below is a list of few companies among  thousands of companies using Python around the world:

Yahoo Maps

Yahoo acquired Four11, whose address and mapping lookup services were implemented in Python. Yahoo Maps still uses Python today, as can be seen by examining its URLs.

Yahoo Group

A comprehensive public archive of Internet mailing lists that was originally implemented in pure Python. At one point Scott Hassan, one of the founders of Findmail/eGroups (the company that was later acquired by Yahoo), reported that they had 180,000 lines of Python underlying everything from their 100% dynamic website to all email delivery, pumping out 200 messages/second on a single 400 MHz Pentium.

Google

Many components of the Google spider and search engine are written in Python (mentioned on Slashdot).

Zope Corporation

Zope Corporation has developed a powerful Web application server using Python that's available as free software.

Ultraseek

Ultraseek Server, a commercial search engine product, is implemented as an elaborate multi-threaded Python program with primitive indexing and search operations performed by a built-in module. Most of the program is written in Python, and both the built-in spider and HTTP server can be customized with additional Python code. The program contains over 11,000 lines of Python code, and the user interface is implemented with over 17,000 lines of Python-scripted HTML templates.

Linux Weekly News

Linux Weekly News is published using a Web application written in Python using the Quixote framework.

ElasticHosts Cloud Servers

Elastic Hosts web control panel is a Web Application Python using the Django framework. Their cloud management middleware is a standalone python application.

Mojam.com

Mojam's Musi-Cal web site provides easy access to the most up-to-date worldwide live music information: concerts, festivals, gigs and other musical events. Much of the back-end (database and email interfaces) is written in Python.

Hunch

hunch is a new type of AI filter, and a decision engine, as well as a social networking site. hunch uses Python primarily for their user interface, but their Jobs criteria only ask's for Python experience, so they probably use it to glue things together as well.

Shopzilla

Shopzilla is a family of comparison shopping sites. Shopzilla uses Python for configuration management and deployment, automated testing and internal tool development.

Movieplayer.it

Movieplayer.it is an italian web portal providing a huge database on cinema with movies,TV series, characters, DVD and Blu-Ray sheets, as well as continuos updates on everything related to current events and news of cinema and television world.

Multiplayer.it

Multiplayer.it is the italian leading web source focused on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS Vita, Wii PC, 3DS, PSP, DS video games, with daily news, previews, interviews, reviews, specials, charts and video games and hardware selling data.

Web Therapy

Ianchat.com is a US based provider of Web Therapy, Telephone Therapy, and In person Therapy which uses python for its website and incorporates a unified communication system which provides simple counselling and consulting solutions for many professionals worldwide.

Games

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2 uses python to implement core elements of the gameplay such as score keeping and team balancing. Check out the BF2 Tech Wiki for sample BF2 Python scripts and information about API.

Crystal Space

The Crystal Space 3D Engine uses python for scripting through a plug-in mechanism. Python scripts can be dynamically invoked from within the engine depending on game specific actions. Python can also be used to program the main game core. It has full access to the C++ Crystal Space API.

Star Trek Bridge Commander

The game "StarTrek’ Bridge Commander" by Totally Games uses Python both as the mission scripting language and also for a ton of other features.

The Temple of Elemental Evil and Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines

"Greyhawk: The Temple of Elemental Evil" and "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" use Python extensively for pretty much everything except the rendering engines - game logic, interface, etc. Both games have strong modding communities.

There is ashort interview with Steve Moret from Troika Games about using Python in ToEE (and looking forwards to Bloodlines).

Civilization 4

The new addition to the legendary strategy game series has all its inner logic, including AI, implemented in Python. The interface is exposed, so the modding community can easily take advantage of it.

QuArK (Quake Army Knife)

QuArK is a level-editor for Quake, Quake II and Half-Life written mostly in Python. One can also write plug-ins for it in Python.

Check out these companies to view their requirement for employment. These can serve as a motivation for you to advance in your knowledge of python.

LIST OF COMPANIES URGENTLY IN NEED OF SPSS USERS IN 2017

DEMAND FOR SPSS USER

Every year there is a great demand for SPSS expert by many companies across the world. Below is a list of companies in need of SPSS users urgently. You can check their official website to apply now!!!!!!

• Planned parenthood federation of America- New York, NY
• William rainey harper college
• University at buffalo-Buffalo NY
• University of south Carolina-columbia
• Stevenson university- greespring,MD
• Disney parks and resorts- Anaheim,CA
• Child trends- Minneapolis, MN 55401
• American Honda Motor co inc – Torrance, CA 90501
• Research foundation of the city university of New York
• Intermountain Healthcare –salt lake city, UT
• Prudential – Newark, Nj07102
• Walden university – Minneapolis
• RSM US LLP- Chicago, IL
• Runzheimer international- Waterford, WI53185
• GfK, Consumer Life- United States
• General dynamics information technology- Rockville, MD
• Partners HealthCare(PHS)- Somervile, MA
• Inventive communications – Charlotte, NC
• ComScore- San Francisco, CA
• QRC international- Clincinnati, OH
• University of Arizona- Tucson, AZ
• Macy’s- New York, NY
• United Airlines- Chicago, IL
• Prince George’s Community College –Largo, MD

 This is just to alert you of latest jobs available for SPSS users, will keep you posted as any jobs for SPSS users are coming up. watch out.

DO IT YOURSELF 1: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS (VIDEO)

WEEK 2

Descriptive Statistics

This allow one to summarise data (which is huge amount of numbers essentially), grasp the essential features of data quickly and easily. It often in image form, mean, median, mode, SDs, histograms, e.t.c. Descriptive statistics contains the following procedures:

• Descriptive procedure
• Frequencies procedure
• Explore procedure
• Cross-tabs procedure
• Ratio procedure
• P-P plots procedure
• Q-Q plots procedure

But in this module we would focus on the first two procedures namely:

1.1 The Descriptive Procedure

With Descriptive you can quickly generate summary statistical measures such as mean, standard deviation, variance, maximum and minimum values, range and sum for a given variable.

1.2 Frequencies Procedure

With the Frequencies procedure you can also generate summary statistical measures for a given variable. Frequencies gives frequency distributions for all types of data (nominal, ordinal and interval).

  

SAMPLE QUESTION ONE

Given the following data:

Respondent’s ID number	Province	Gender	Ethnicity	Age	Religion	Mother’s Education
1	Alberta	Male	Caucasian	32	Protestant	16
2	Alberta	Female	Caucasian	37	Catholic	13
3	Alberta	Female	Black	72	Catholic	20
4	Alberta	Female	Caucasian	86	Jewish	12
5	Alberta	Male	Caucasian	30	Protestant	5
6	Alberta	Male	Caucasian	32	Catholic	10
7	Alberta	Female	Black	29	Protestant	18
8	Alberta	Male	Black	29	Protestant	4
9	Alberta	Female	Black	53	Protestant	6
10	Alberta	Male	Black	68	Protestant	9
11	Alberta	Female	Caucasian	19	Catholic	2
12	Alberta	Female	Black	43	Catholic	14
13	British Columbia	Female	Black	38	None	12
14	British Columbia	Male	Caucasian	45	Catholic	17
15	British Columbia	Male	Black	24	None	1
16	British Columbia	Male	Caucasian	53	Catholic	3
17	British Columbia	Female	Caucasian	20	Catholic	7
18	British Columbia	Male	Caucasian	27	Catholic	11
19	British Columbia	Male	Caucasian	54	Catholic	8
20	British Columbia	Female	Black	25	Protestant	15
21	British Columbia	Male	Black	20	Catholic	1
22	British Columbia	Female	Black	38	Catholic	7
23	British Columbia	Male	Caucasian	20	Catholic	5
24	British Columbia	Female	Black	34	Catholic	10
25	British Columbia	Female	Caucasian	67	Protestant	19

Run frequencies for the following categorical (i.e., discrete) variables: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and Province.  Answer the following questions:

What percentage of the sample is female?  

What percentage of the sample is Black?     

What percentage of the sample is Catholic? 

What percentage of the sample is from Alberta?

After running descriptive procedures

Fill in the box:

Variable	Mean	Standard Deviation	Lowest Value	Highest Value	Range
Age
Mother’s Education (in years)

SOLUTION

STEP 1: let us make the following representations:

 PROVINCE

          1        Alberta

          2        British Columbia

GENDER

          1        male

          2        female

ETHNICITY

          1        Caucasian

          2        Black

RELIGION

          1        Protestant

          2        Catholic

          3        Jewish

          4        None

          5        Other

STEP 2: Enter the variable into the variable view as shown in fig.1

                                                              Fig.1

STEP 3: Enter the value into the Data Editor as shown in Fig. 2 and save it as sample 1

                        Fig. 2

STEP 4: click Analyze - Descriptive Statistics – Frequencies, fig. 3 will be display Click on the selected variable in the left box and transfer it to the Variable(s) box by clicking the arrow as shown in fig. 4. Note: You can transfer more than one variable to the Variable(s) box and run frequencies for all variables at the same time.

 Fig. 3

Fig. 4

STEP 5: In the same window click on Statistics as shown in fig. 5 Select minimum, maximum, and range (they may already be selected as default) Continue. In the same window click on Charts… Bar chart a (You can also try a histogram with or without the normal curve, and a pie chart as shown in fig. 6. However, SPSS will only allow you to select on 1 chart at a time!) Continue OK. Then the output will be display as shown in fig. 7

 Fig. 5

 Fig. 6

Fig. 7

STEP 6: To run descriptive for each variable, Analyze - Descriptive Statistics - Descriptive

Click on the selected variable in the left box and transfer it to the Variable(s) box by clicking the arrow. You can transfer more than one variable to the Variable(s) box and run descriptive for all variables at the same time. In the same window click on Options Select mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum and range (some may already be selected as default) Continue OK.

Attached is a video of the solution to the sample question 1. Enjoy the first video released by abataysoftwarewizard. watch out for more video this is just for test running. Feel free to ask questions.