Architects Hire & Seek on Job Banks

Whether you're hiring or if you're seeking an architectural position, these ideas and resource sites will help either situation.

Consider the Sunday papers in major cities…many of our Wisconsin design firm clients choose to use the Sunday papers in Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit...some also test the waters in Sunday papers in cities Dallas, San Francisco, Phoenix, Atlanta....some architects may consider to return to the Midwest and are looking to "come home".

Hire and seek in cities with schools of architecture, design and engineering. End of Fall and Spring Semesters provide hiring opportunities all year long.

Here are a few sites I confirmed for your consideration.

AIA National - Career Center

AIA Chicago - Jobs

AIA Minnesota - Job Bank
This board has almost 80 offerings posted in the last 30 days, many in Minnesota

AIA Chapter Job Boards
This board has links to state / local AIA job boards in the US

State chapters may also have newsletters or email communications with their members that you can utilize for posting/seeking job positions.

I have also worked with the Illinois and Wisconsin Chapters of Association of Licensed Architects (ALA). They are a thriving organization of hundreds of architects located in Chicago and Milwaukee respectively. They have a job posting page on their site.

Revit: Dual Processor Computers Benefit Rendering

While researching a support issue, I found this on the support.autodesk.com site which defines two situations when Revit can benefit from a dual processor computer. Just type this support.autodesk.com into the address bar of your browser; do not add http:// or www in front of this.

Issue

You want to know if Autodesk® Revit® supports dual processors.

Solution

Autodesk® Revit® does not make use of dual processors; however, note the following:

A small performance improvement may be noted on a system with dual processors if Autodesk® Revit® does not have to share processor time with other applications.

AccuRender (embedded in Revit) does take advantage of dual processors, resulting in raytrace and radiosity processing that has been reported to improve by as much as 90%.

AutoCAD-based software can experience a significant increase in application performance when installed on computer systems that have two processors. So review your inventory of AutoCAD computer systems that may have dual processors...they might be usable for certain Revit procedures as identified in the circumstances listed above.

Free 3D Revit Downloads of Detailed Components

When you use the Revit OPEN command, make sure you visit the WEB LIBRARY located on the button in the upper right corner of the OPEN dialog box....tons of furniture, equipment, with a high level of detail.

or use this link Revit WEB LIBRARY

Tip: On each page of components, there is a filing cabinet icon in the upper right corner of the webpage. If you pick the filing cabinet button, you can download a zip file that contains all of the objects on that page...some zip files are 16MB - 26MB in size...tons of realistically detailed architectural components.

In the Revit Web Libray you will find this link to the Woodwork Institute which has a ton of downloadable 3D cabinet libraries in Revit (RVT), AutoCAD (DWG) and AutoCAD (DXF) format. Upper cabinets, base cabinets, corner cabinets, full height cabinets, utility cabinets with a wide variation of cabinets with doors, drawers and shelving.

The Revit family editor is pretty cool as a parametric solid modeler....it allows you to create dimensional variations of your furniture or equipment in one file...rather than creating multiple files.

We sometimes use contract furniture manufacturers' 3D furniture blocks from their websites/CD and "Revitize them" from AutoCAD 3D blocks into Revit Families. The benefit of turning it into a Revit family is I can add parameters (attribures) that allow me to create Revit schedules (furniture, equipment, ) based on the parameters assigned to the component.

I've posted some other suggestions on my company's blog site:

Revit Architecture-AutoCAD Architecture Class Handouts

I have an Archive button at the bottom of the main blog page.

Chcck out these other sites for potential, free Revit components that you can download.

www.augi.com
www.revitcity.com

Cheers!