AIA Conference on Architecture and Design - Boston 2025 aia May 19, 2025

For years, I've wanted to attend the national AIA Conference on Architecture and Design.

I've decided 2025 is the year! I'll...

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The BRIDGE - 6th Generation Quantity & Cost Estimating May 19, 2025

One of the original missions with CONTRABIM back in 2016, was to develop an Archicad Template that would inherently produce d...

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How to Colorize Image Based Textures Mar 28, 2025

What if we had the ability to change the color of image based surface textures, directly in Archicad?

Well, in fact we do!

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Wall Direction and Why it Matters Mar 21, 2025

Are you modeling your Archicad walls in the right direction?

In this video, we'll dive into Archicad Walls, and specifically...

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10 Tips for Archicad Template Building Mar 14, 2025

We are fresh off the production of our TPL Accelerator program, and have assembled a 10 Tips Video and Blog that will surely ...

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TPL Accelerator Workshop Feb 12, 2025

When it comes to building Archicad Templates, the hard truth is: 

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL!

For years with CONTRABIM 1.0 (...

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Top 10 New Features in Archicad 28 archicad 28 Oct 10, 2024

Archicad 28 has been officially released, and we've assembled our Top 10 Best New Features list, to help you filter through t...

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New GRAPHISOFT Partnership Status company news Oct 01, 2024

I'm excited to announce that CONTRABIM has become the first Digital Associate Partner to GRAPHISOFT in North America!

This n...

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CONTRABIM 2.0 - Into the Future! Sep 24, 2024

The next generation BIM Template from CONTRABIM is in the works! (And has been for a while...)

With the recently announced c...

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CONTRABIM 1.0 (2016-2024) company news Sep 12, 2024

It's an end of an era!

Our CONTRABIM Template development work from 2013-2024 is officially wrapped, into what we'll refer t...

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Archicad 27 Work Environment work environment Oct 26, 2023

It's that time of year! Once a new release of Archicad comes out, the first step to upgrading from the previous is to rebuilt...

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Cost Loading and Labeling Composite Structures cost estimating labels May 26, 2023

In this Archicad Tutorial, we'll demonstrate how to load up elements with Cost Labels utilizing the CONTRABIM SYSTEMS Cost As...

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Creating % Slope Labels in Archicad May 24, 2023

Have you ever wanted to add a % Slope label to your meshes? If so, check out this video tutorial on how to convert degrees to...

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Renovation Tool Overview + 10 Unique Uses (Archintensive 2023 Replay) renovation filters May 15, 2023

If you are not using the Archicad Renovation Tool, you are not taking advantage of a powerful function within the BIM program...

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Breaking into 5D BIM | Archintensive 2021 Replay Apr 17, 2023

CONTRABIM Is back at the Global Archicad Conference, ARCHINTENSIVE 2023!

This year we've got a fun presentation on the Renov...

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Generate Topography Lines from your Meshes mesh tool morphs solid element operations Feb 07, 2023

In this video blog tutorial, we'll teach you how to generate 3d topographic lines from your mesh objects.

 Why is this usefu...

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Intro to Archicad Library Part Maker library part maker object creation Nov 18, 2022

I couldn't find any good tutorial videos on the Archicad Library Part Maker, so I decided to record one! In fact, we'll be tu...

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Working with Point Clouds (Part 2) point clouds Nov 17, 2022

Welcome to Part 2 of our Point Cloud Tutorial Series!

In this video, we'll walk through the steps and best practices for pre...

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How to Create Single Line Display of MEP Systems in Archicad graphic overrides line types mep modeling pen sets Sep 22, 2022

Most MEP Engineers typically output their design documents with single-line views of piping and conduit systems.

Unfortunate...

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Exterior Wall with Water Table offset modifiers Sep 20, 2022

A common request from both the CONTRABIM Membership Community as well as the YouTube Community, is how to create an exterior ...

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Working with Laser Scans Point Clouds in Archichad (Part 1) laser scanning point clouds trimble realworks Jul 22, 2022

By laser scanning your projects, you can quickly capture billions of measurements that help recreate the true as-built condit...

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How to Create and Place Interior Elevations on Drawings drawing layouts interior elevations Jul 20, 2022

Learn how to create and save Interior Elevation viewpoints, that are automatically named from Zones, and efficiently placed a...

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Creating Complex Profile Offset Modifiers in Walls complex profiles composite structures offset modifiers walls Jul 18, 2022

Archicad's Complex Profile Manager enables you to create Offset Modifiers, which can be powerful ways to adjust specific skin...

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Archicad 25 - New Casework Cabinet Objects! archicad 25 casework objects Aug 13, 2021

In Archicad 25 the biggest and most exciting change to the object library was the casework objects, used for kitchens, bathro...

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