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INTRODUCING – QARC4Revit content delivery system and templates. Australia and New Zealand’s first community library of Autodesk Revit® BIM content delivered direct to projects via the cloud – simply download the free QARC4Revit Plugin and begin downloading families. QARC Systems was created to assist Building Design businesses adopt Building Information Modelling (BIM) with its innovative […]

This is a revised copy of the email sent out to our valued users this week. We are transitioning to a new Point-Of-Sale (POS) system as part of the process for officially launching the QARC4Revit plugin.   We are migrating our mechanism for user authentication and identification within the plugin from only A360 usernames to […]

Following a year’s consultation with the building industry, and in particular, the Project Design and Implementation leaders, the Queensland Government has “committed to implementing the use of BIM on all major state infrastructure projects by 2023″, according to their website www.dilgp.qld.gov.au. As stated in their draft policy they list the following objectives as reasons behind their […]

In the last post http://qarcsystems.com.au/qarc4revit-plug-in-is-available-new-content/ we told you about all the content that has been added since first release of the QARC4Revit plug-in.  Well, I forgot to include the Screens section. As you can see, there is quite a bit there.  These are effectively like Components Model, but we know you’ll go looking for such things under […]

The big news first.  The QARC4Revit plug-in has been launched to our current users.  In Beta version.  All users received an email before Christmas explaining how to load it.  If you cannot find that please let us know on admin@qarcsystems.com.au Some extra news that would please those on R2018 – we solved the rendering issue […]

Traditional timber window farm had some impostors – There were some Modern windows (4 panel casements) – these have been replaced.   The farm is in the _QARC2016 Dropbox folder.

Firstly I would like to start this blog post by thanking all loyal subscribers to Q-ARC. Most of you will be aware we have changed our name from ARC to QARC for international naming reasons. What most of you won’t be aware of is the extent of developments that we have been working on in […]

We have uploaded to the _QARC 2016 folder, an amended support article called Creating a Building Envelope. It goes into considerable detail in how to model one of those pesky building envelope ‘boxes’ that combines setback distances and height restrictions. The addendum in Version 2 goes further and describes how to create a Building Envelope […]

As per the last post, we are uploading over 1300 timber windows, into a new folder “_QARC 2016”. If you are a financial user of ours, you will be receiving a Dropbox invite. These windows have adopted the very best worldwide practice, after a year of research, and much testing.  Kaylene has dedicated a lot […]

Just a quick update note to our loyal ARC users. We are working hard on new material, which includes lots of revisions to the ARChetype. An example is a simple filtering system for the Project Browser sheets.  Another is total revision of green notes. We are about to release a very large quantity of timber […]