Skip to main content

Many free video tutorials released (in Dutch...)

Motivation

I have worked literally day and night on a expanding series of video tutorials. They are made as part of my teaching assignment at KU Leuven and are meant for our students of Architecture Engineering to replace to a large extent that traditional class-room based sessions. Partly out of necessity, as it becomes harder and harder to support large groups of students and partly out of didactic motivation, as the speed with which students learn CAD and 3D software differs widely. For some, it is always too fast in a class setting, so they give up and start entering Facebook or messaging on their cellphone. For others, they are frustrated as they are already ahead of the explanation, exploring other tools.

The actual tutorials

So here is the full YouTube page where I'll post all current and future video's in separate playlists.

stefkeB - all YouTube video playlists

At the time of writing, there are videos about ArchiCAD (3 series), AutoCAD (2D basics), SketchUp, Cinema4D, Unity and Artlantis.

Current playlists on Youtube channel
Comments and suggestions are welcome, as are requests for other tutorials (applications or subjects).


The plan is to finish a series of ArchiCAD tutorials on collaboration and simulation in the second half of this academic year and also a series on Rhino (probably using Rhino 5.0 and Grasshopper, on Windows). I'm not sure about a series on Revit, as I'm not too experienced yet to start teaching it. I'd like to work on an openBIM series as well, but I have to learn Solibri Model Checker first to get the workflow in place. Preparations are going on as we speak.


Background information


I've began to use screen-recording using the excellent Screenflow software for OSX applications and the free Open Source CamStudio (less polished, but very usable) for the applications which only run on Windows (e.g. Grasshopper for Rhino - videos are not yet recorded) or for which a Windows-version is more common (e.g. AutoCAD).

My old and aging laptop is getting into trouble, as the hard drive gets quickly filled (40 Gb and counting) and interactive 3D applications while recording full-screen video is quite demanding. Any sponsors who have a spare rccent Macbook Pro (or similar)?

The videos are all in Dutch, which might be a pity for most of you, but I decided to focus on this first, for the first batch of tutorials. I'm still pondering the option of overdubbing in English, but e.g. the ArchiCAD-based BIM tutorials use the Belgian/Dutch template and library, so it might not be so relevant to be translated. On the other hand, many English tutorials already exist for these applications, so this could fill a niche and is directly used by my students.

I am wondering if English captions would be sufficient, as this is something I can add (over time) to the existing YouTube videos. Full English versions are also possible, but then I have to re-render everything and upload all of them again, which might take a lot more time than subtitling. Not sure. So far I have one request for a translation of the "split-level" video using ArchiCAD.


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Improve usage of BIM during early design phases

When I was collecting ideas for a book chapter on BIM (that seemed to never have emerged after that), I collected 10 ideas, which I believe still reflect good recommendations to improve the usage of BIM during the early design phases. These ideas are related to BIM software, but you can apply them in any flavor, as long as you can model with Building Elements, Spaces and have control over representation. Introduction This article gives an overview of several recommendations and tips, to better apply BIM applications and BIM methodologies, in the context of the early design phases. Many of these tips are applicable in any BIM application and they are based on experience gathered from teaching, researching and using BIM software. Sometimes they could help software developers to improve the workflow of their particular BIM implementation. Tip 1 : Gradually increase the amount of information In the early design phases, the architect makes assumptions and lays out the main design in...
2 comments
Read more

Getting BIM data into Unity (Part 9 - using IfcConvert)

This is part 9 of a series of posts about getting BIM data into Unity. In this post, we’ll discuss the IfcConvert utility from the IfcOpenShell Open Source IFC Library to preprocess an IFC model for integration with Unity. This is (finally?) again a coding post, with some scripts which are shared to build upon. Conversion of IFC into Unity-friendly formats The strategy with this approach is that you preprocess the IFC-file into more manageable formats for Unity integration. Most Web-platforms do some sort of pre-processing anyway, so what you see in your browsers is almost never an IFC-file, but an optimised Mesh-based geometric representation. However, it wouldn’t be BIM-related if we’d limit ourselves to the geometry, so we will parse the model information as well, albeit using another, pre-processed file. IFC to Wavefront OBJ I used a test IFC-model and used the IfcConvert-utility converted it into OBJ en XML formats. The default way to use it is very simple: ...
Post a Comment
Read more

PythonOCC : Open Source interactive CAD shell (and how to run it on OSX)

What is PythonOCC? PythonOCC is an Open Source (LGPL) Python-wrapper for OpenCASCADE. So what is OpenCASCADE (OCC)? This is an advanced Open Source (custom license) modeling kernel, comparable to commercial engines, such as ACIS or Parasolid, which are used in quite some commercial CAD programs. When you want to develop CAD software, you could use OCC and write programs in C++. And why using Python? With this wrapper, you can create CAD and geometry scripts in Python, which is an interpreted Object-oriented scripting language. You can write almost "on-the-fly" and seriously reduce the implementation effort, by skipping the compiling-phase. You can even interact with a running program in the Python interpreter. Want to read more about this? The OpenCASCADE official website  (currently Linux and Windows are officially supported) The PythonOCC website/blog  (beware that the core of the actions happen in the development repositories). So far so good. Now the nasty, techn...
4 comments
Read more