Canada Nature Escapes

I came across this promotional video recently from Canada Nature Escapes, a Saskatchewan-based group of small businesses that are offering "nature-based" tourism. I thought the video was pretty interesting because I have canoed, skied and tobogganed at many of the locales depicted in the video. Watch it in HD if you can.

Office / Escritório

RVT file whit families for an office, version 2009.

Ficheiro RVT com familias para um escritório, versão 2009.

ofice.rvt

New Door.../ nova porta

Version 2009, parametric door.

porta vidro uma folha com moldura.rfa

Sharon paddles along the break wall, past a light marking the entrance to the Calumet channel.

     There's plenty of traffic on the Chicago coast during the summer months. We share the water with tour boats, yachts, motor boats, sail boats, fishing boats, coast guard vessels, jets skis and more. On a summer weekend, it can get pretty busy--and sometimes pretty scary.
     But there's one type of boat we're always happy to see: Great Lakes freighters. These monumental vessels remind us that Chicago owes its existence to the convenience of sending cargo by sea, and that its maritime role extends to this day.
     Today we paddled down toward the heavy industrial area on Chicago's far south side. While eating lunch at Calumet Park, we saw the Philip R. Clarke as she approached the Calumet River. We knew she was coming long before we saw her because her captain announced her arrival an hour in advance on channel 16, which we monitor any time we are near or crossing shipping channels. So we paddled out to a nearby buoy to watch her turn once to get into the channel, then a second time so she could back into the river.

The Philip R. Clarke and the Avocet LV.

 
We stopped to take pictures, of course.

Alec brings out the serious camera.

The 767-foot freighter, capable of hauling more than 25,000 tons of cargo.

    These Great Lakes freighters command respect. They make all the little motor boats look ridiculous. They're predictable, they follow the nautical rules of the road, and they're just plain amazing. We think our kayaks, given a choice, would come back in another life as Great Lakes frieghters.

The kit

The first prototype is inspected just after the arrrival at Boulogne Sur Mer

When the design is finalized, I will describe the d.i.y. kit that may be available then. It will consist of laser cut plywood sheets an bent aluminum tubes. The rest is up to you.

The body

Paulus van Staveren build this
body of a rear steered velomobile.

A body of airplane plywood (1.5 mm) can be made without a mold. This is a big advantage for doing it yourself but a major constraint in the design of the body shape too. A plywood sheet can not be bent into a sphere. In mathematical terms: the shape has to be developable.

The aerodynamic drag of developable shape may not be as low as that of a free formed shape. This is the compromise that I make to simplify the building and reduce the body mass.

I developed the sheets of my first velomobile with both a 1:5 and finally a 1:1 model. I simply wrapped paper sheets around curved panels. But this job can be done with a computer model too (for instance with the 3d surface modeler Rhino). I even developed a computer program in Matlab to do this. There is specialized software for hull design: Pilot3D, Delftship.

Introduction

A velomobile is something to have. But it is manufactured in limited numbers and expensive (I will name some makes: velomobiel.nl, leitra.dk, leiba.de, aerorider.com, sunrider-cycles.com, alligt.nl, dutchbikes.nl). Building it yourself is a good alternative and very much fun. This blog is dedicated to the development of a do it yourself velomobile.

The Alleweder Velomobile (photo Flevobike)

I was involved in the development of the do it yourself Alleweder velomobile at the Flevobike company in 1992. It was my job to improve and adapt the design of Bart Verhees. Bart Verhees is a very practical engineer and an experienced airplane designer. His Alleweder velomobile is build like an airplane: riveted aluminum sheet. At that time I saw the beautiful shapes that are possible using bent sheet only. And this idea never left me.

The electric machine

Together with designer Ronald Meijs we developed an electric car. It was made of an aluminum-polypropylene sandwich sheet (0.2-2-0.2 mm). This was a new material of Hoogovens named Hylite. It was aimed at the automotive industry.

Me and my first plywood car on a trip to Boulonge sur Mer

But my true love is human power and a year later I travelled to France in my first plywood velomobile. It was a 'head in' design and on that trip a learned that the fun of cycling is to feel the air flow along your head. But the concept of a velomobile of airplane plywood was proven. I made a new head out design which was build by Paddy Milford. It is has been hanging in my garage for 10 years now but recently Sjaak Bloemberg is working to get it on the road.

The De Havilland Mosquito: a plywood construction build in 1940-1950, (© FlightGlobal)

Wood is a very interesting material for velomobiles because of its low density. In the construction of the velomobile body the sheet stiffness is more important than its strength. The stiffness of the sheet is very much determined by its thickness. On stiffness relative to mass only sandwiches of alternative materials like carbon-aramid-epoxy with foam can compete with birch plywood. But building sandwiches is laborious and expensive and it is only recently that velomobile manufacturers offer bodies with sandwich sheet. For your information I will list some densities (kg/dm^3): birch plywood 0.7, aluminum 2.7, glass fiber 2.55, carbon fiber 1.75-1.95, polyester 1-1.45, epoxy 1.1-1.3.  Look at the site of Jan Hermhart for an example of plywood in aeroplanes.

My aluminum Alleweder was over 30 kg, my first plywood velomobile 27 and the second will be around 23 kg ! As soon as the second prototype has travelled its first 100 km I will get back to you. Let me know if you would like to be involved !

P.S. I'm not the only one: mosquito-velomobiles , gigomobile , Friend Wood, coronn

Restaurant / Restaurante

restaurante.rvt

Alibre Design 2011 - New Features

Alibre Design is one of Australia's most affordable mid-range 3d mechanical CAD solutions. Within the next several weeks Alibre 2011 is expected for release. This major release both adds new features as well as improving many existing ones. A crucial focus for Alibre Design 2011 has been improvement in efficiency and ease of use, including fully customizable keymaps and in-place editing. Developers may also be interested to know that much of Alibre is now written in the Microsoft C# programming language, which allows developers to add new features even faster than before. Here are a few of the many feature enhancements of the new Alibre 2011 version release:

Alibre Design 2011 will offer Alibre's first native 64-bit version, which basically means you can make larger, more complex assemblies and have more files open simultaneously, without the restrictions of older 32-bit operating systems and memory access. With the offering of a 64 bit version comes a tremendous increase in both what can be created in Alibre Design and the types of workflows people can use. Both Alibre Design Professional and Expert versions will be offered as 64-bit editions.

Direct 3D Solid->SheetMetal conversion will allow CAD designers to take ordinary 3d solid models or imported 3D files (like STEP or Parasolid) and automatically convert these into sheet metal parts that can be flattened and machined in Alibre CAM. Of course, the resulting sheet metal parts are fully associative to their original counterparts, so that if you change the original model, the associated sheet metal version will update automatically. The new solid to sheet metal conversion tool will only be offered with Alibre Design Expert edition.


Alibre Design 2011 will add new MIRROR and SCALE modelling commands. Alibre 2011 will offer a new "Double Intersect" sketch command that allows you to join two figures at their theoretical intersection. The tool has several modes, all completely transparent to you, which adapts to the types of figures and orientations that a designer encounters. Alibre 2011 will also make it possible to create libraries of your most commonly used hole types on the fly. Simply fill out the form, type a name, and press Create. The hole's parameters can now be recalled instantly via the Presets dropdown. Alibre 2011 will also offer a new multi-plane creation tool, which can be useful when drawing multiple solid loft profiles, etc.

Alibre will begin rolling out their new "in-place editing" UI framework with Alibre Design 2011. In-place editing takes floating toolbars and context menus much further by opening relevant toolbars and icons just by selecting entities. Any changes are immediately displayed in real time, and to close in-place editing toolbars, we simply move the mouse away from the entity we initially selected. Alibre Design 2011 will offer this framework first in its Detailed Drawing Workspace, but is eventually to be deployed in various forms throughout the product.

Until release, CADDIT will begin offering free upgrades to all new Alibre Design Expert users a free upgrade to Alibre Design Expert 2011 upon release - but while still at current sale prices for V12.1. Alibre is suitable for a wide variety of mechanical design projects, including machine design, fixture design, vehicle and product development, sheet metal products and more. A free full-version trial of the current Alibre Design software in Australia can be downloaded here. For further questions about Alibre products, CADDIT support can be contacted HERE.

Kitchen equipment / Equipamento de Cozinha

More equipment for all kitchen - Version 2009

Cozinha equipamentos.rvt

HfG Ulm and Basic Design: Conference at Kolkata: 28 September 2010

LOOK Back – LOOK Forward: HfG Ulm and Basic Design for India

Prof. M P Ranjan
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Conference Title:

LOOK Back – LOOK Forward: HfG Ulm and Basic Design for India

Last date for registration: September 20, 2010 (Participation limited to 100 participants only - please register early) Conference on 28 September 2010 at Kolkata
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Venue & Schedule:

Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR)
9A, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata - 700 071
behind Tata Centre , Chowringhee Road

28 September, 2010 : Full-day Conference-cum-Workshop on Basic Design Education: 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Organisers:

National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad – in collaboration with
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
HfG-Archive Ulm & IfA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Germany) Stuttgart
Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR)

Background:

After the successful one day event at Bengaluru in March 2010, this is the second in the series of conferences based on the spirit of the HfG Ulm pedagogy for design education and its impact on India. The HfG Ulm, which started as a continuation of the Bauhaus experiments in design education under one of its former students – Max Bill, soon veered from a foundation in art to a science and society focus under the leadership of Tomas Maldonado. The HfG Ulm faculty, all eminent teachers and thought leaders in their field, experimented with design education like never before and documented the results of teaching in a series of 21 journals published between 1958 and 1968. These ten years of intense research and theory building and sharing has had a lasting impact on the world of design education and the availability of these journals being one of the major factors for this durable influence. Selected papers from these volumes located in the NID Library were reproduced for a conference on design education in 1989 by Prof Kirti Trivedi at Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Powai and these have been a further source of inspiration for Indian design teachers over the years. These journals are now available as part of the conference kit in a DVD compilation that can inform and inspire design teachers interested in the subject.

The HfG Ulm impacted the world of design through its direct professional action with industry, memorably with Braun and its successful range of products that hit the market in 1955 and continued with other product successes that can be called the Ulm style of meticulous detailing and clean functional form. Hans Gugelot was among the lead drivers along this track. Other teachers such as Otl Aicher influenced major corporations such as Herman Miller and Lufthansa with significant contributions in graphic design. The closing down of the HfG Ulm in 1968 saw the scattering of its faculty and students across the world, each steeped in the Ulm ideology of public good with design theory and action, resulting in significant action on the ground in the form of new design education in Latin America by Gui Bonsiepe, in India by Sudhakar Nadkarni and H Kumar Vyas and in Japan by Kohei Suguira and Sutaro Mukai, besides the numerous other influences in Europe and the USA that continue to this day.

The Ulmer Museum/HfG-Archiv has brought together the various threads of the Ulm school in a unique exhibition called ulm: method and design / ulm: school of design 1953-1968 with archival objects, classroom assignments and multimedia exhibits never before seen in India. The exhibition is presented in India by the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, in collaboration with IfA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Germany) Stuttgart and offers us the opportunity to both “LOOK Back - LOOK Forward: HfG Ulm and Basic Design Education for India”, a title that aptly sums up the objective behind the intensive one-day conference/workshop on September 28, 2010 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR), as well as to draw inspiration from the path-breaking work at Ulm and reflect on the path forward here in India. An impressive catalogue published by Hatje Cantz (ISBN 3-7757-9142-6) provides rich background research content on the school and the exhibition. Basic Design is the term used by HfG Ulm to describe the preparatory courses and abstract assignments developed to foster core capabilities in design action and design thinking while nurturing the sensibilities and abilities of a designer.

Participants:

Design teachers and teachers from other institutes interested in design pedagogy, including design research, design management and technology & design professionals interested in design education.

Registration Fee:

Individual designers and faculty : Rs. 2000/= each
Team of 5 faculty per school from India : Rs 5000/= per team

Exhibition Venue: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR)- opens September 25, 2010

Conference Venue: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR)– September 28, 2010
Abanindranath Tagore Gallery and Conference rooms, 9A, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata - 700 071, West Bengal, India.

Organising Institutions

National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad – Prof. Pradyumna Vyas, Director
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata – Dr. Reimar Volker, Director
HfG-Archive Ulm & IfA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Germany) Stuttgart
Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR)

Keynote Speakers:

Daniela Baumann, Research scholar, HfG-Archive Ulm, Germany
Prof. Kirti Trivedi, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Powai

Prof Sudhakar Nadkarni, Dean, Business Design, Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai

Conference Chair:

Prof M P Ranjan, NID, Ahmedabad

Co-Chair:

Prof Suchitra Sheth, CEPT University, Ahmedabad

Registration:

Registration fees are payable by Demand Draft drawn in favour of “National Institute of Design” payable at Ahmedabad.
Registration Form duly filled with Demand Draft attached shall be delivered to National Institute of Design, Paldi, Ahmedabad 380 007

Last date for registration: September 20, 2010
(Participation limited to 100 participants only - please register early)

Address for communication and registration

1st contact: National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
Avinash Bhandari
Conference Coordinator
Outreach Programmes
National Institute of Design,
Paldi, Ahmedabad 380007
Tel: (off) 91 79 26623692
Fax: 91 79 26621167 / 26605240
conference email: outreach@nid.edu
www.nid.edu

2nd contact: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata
Sharmistha Sarker
Programme Officer
033 2486 6398
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
8, Ballygunge Circular Road
(Pramathesh Barua Sarani)
Kolkata - 700 019 India
Tel: +91-33-2486 6398
Fax: +91-33-2486 5188
email: sarker@kolkata.goethe.org

Detailed Programme:

The one-day conference at Kolkata follows the opening of the touring exhibition ulm: method and design/ulm: school of design 1953-1968 September 28, 2010. Participants at the conference are encouraged to visit to exhibition before the event which is adjacent to the venue.

September 25, 2010 onwards (Exhibition venue: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR), Kolkata)

Exhibition: (optional for participants) Inauguration of the exhibition at the Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR), Kolkata organised by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata.

September 28, 2010 (Conference venue: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata (ICCR), Kolkata)

LOOK Back & LOOK Forward: HfG Ulm and Basic Design Education for India

9.30 am to 10.00 am Registration and informal get together. Seating for the Plenary Sessions in Abanindranath Tagore Gallery and the Reflection Session in conference rooms. Seating plan to be mixed across design schools with seats and Break-Away groups assigned at the registration. This will facilitate the workshop sessions and encourage participation by all members.

Conference Session One: LOOK Back: Hfg Ulm and Basic Design for India

10.00 am to 10.30 am : Opening remarks by organizers – Introduction to Purpose and mission of the conference.

10.30 am to 11.00 am Keynote 1: Daniela Baumann, Research scholar, HfG-Archiv Ulm, Germany – Focus on the pedagogy of HfG Ulm and its spread of key messages to other centres over the past 50 years.

11.00 am to 11.30 am Keynote 2: Prof. Kirti Trivedi, Industrial Design Centre, IIT , Powai – The Pedagogy of Basic Design at HfG Ulm– its growth and development in Asia after Ulm.

11.30 am to 12.30 noon Panel Discussion 1: Moderated by Prof Suchitra Sheth, CEPT University: Multi Institutional experience of Basic Design and pedagogy propositions from experiences in design education. panel discussions by five invited speakers from Indian design schools to reflect on various threads of influences across design subjects. Session will map the contours of Basic Design and Foundation programmes at leading schools in India today.

12.30 pm to 1.30 pm Lunch Break (lunch served at venue)

Conference Session Two: LOOK Forward: Future of Basic Design Education

1.30 pm to 3.30 pm: Break Away Sessions – World Café Format
Group 1: Senses: Sensitising Perception
Group 2: Knowledge: Broad World View
Group 3: Ethics: Attitudes and Values
Group 4: Culture: Understanding Context and Field Contact
Group 5: Skills: Actions and Abilities – Competency and Confidence

Conference Session Three: LOOK Forward: Reflections on Design Education

3.40 pm to 5.30 pm Presentations by Break Away Groups. The lessons from the debates and the key take-aways are summarised from all groups by one representative from each group.
(10 minutes including discussions from the floor)

5.00 to 5.30 pm Reflective Keynote Panel, commentaries by eminent design teachers moderated by Prof M P Ranjan, NID with Prof Sudhakar Nadkarni and keynote speakers. Building a checklist of action points and sharing these with the forum. Towards a policy for action by Indian design education.

6.00 pm to 8.00 pm Guided tour of the HfG Ulm Exhibition (optional for participants)
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Hydro-bathtub / Banheira de Hidro-massagem

Non-parametric familie, i will try to fix. Banheira de hidro massagem não parametrica, vou tentar faze-la parametrica....

Hidro massagem.rfa

Essential Door / Porta Essential

Essential.rfa

Interior Old Door / Porta antiga

interior_old_door.rfa

Land of the Living Skies

I came across this video for a song by Nathan Rogers and thought I would share.

CAD Software Update for progeCAD 2010 Users

CADDIT.net has released a new update of progeCAD 2010 10.0.10.8 for immediate download on their website. progeCAD is a low-cost compliment for AutoCAD from Autodesk, offering similar commands and editing AutoCAD DWG files but costing thousands less to buy. The progeCAD 10.0.10.8 update is free to all licensed progeCAD 2010 users and offers several key fixes that our users have requested, including these listed below:

For End Users:
Gradient hatch: improved visualization in printing
Improved performance when layouts have hidden or shaded viewports
ICAD.LSP continues loading even when reading ICAD.SDS fails
Fixed active layout in status bar opening a drawing on paper space
Last path used to open drawings is saved correctly
Fixed save of Dynamic blocks of DWG 2010 version
Fixed save of drawings containing Multileader and improved plot settings extraction
Fixed change of active DIMSTYLE in dialog
Changed reopen of property palette after print, to avoid conflict between print dialog and property palette
Fixed isolated crashes caused by certain entity displays
Fixed isolated crashes on Trim/Extend commands
Fixed problem of command typing with Windows 7 (Chinese Version)

For Developers:
Fixed 'send of message' to VBI workspaces

New Features:
Added Beta version of LispDefender (Lisp protection)
Added Proxy capability for both updater and registration

AutoCAD LT users are especially invited to try this latest release of progeCAD 2010. progeCAD offers several important features that AutoCAD LT does not, including 3D modelling and rendering, full programmability (C++, VBA, AutoLISP), multiple profile support, Network Licensing, DWG 14 export, Express Tools, Image Tools, advanced PDF printing and more. A free no-obligation trial of progeCAD Professional can be downloaded HERE.

Mathcad 15.0 Integration with Knovel Math

MathCAD 15.0 now integrates Knovel® Math for updated MathCAD Extended Libraries for Mechanical, Civil and Electrical engineering. Knovel Math offers MathCAD users fully documented engineering and math worksheets from trusted reference works which have been validated and quality tested. Transcribing equations for math calculations is often an extremely time consuming process. Knovel Math helps to speed up this process by quickly finding the required calculations, changing the input values in MathCAD and updating these instantly. Topics can be quickly searched and MathCAD enabled articles will be identified by the symbol . Articles are offered in both US Customary units and metric units for ease of use. Articles are opened in MathCAD with anything highlighted in green are the input values that can be changed and yellow highlighting indicates the output values which are updated instantly. MathCAD 14 users can also use the old Library Extensions from that version on MathCAD 15, as well.

How Does Knovel Benefit Mathcad 15 Users?
Active PTC Maintenance Support Customers have additional access to several other resources including Knovel. Members need to log into the website http://www.ptc.com/support/maintenance/gold/index.htm and follow the links to the Knovel website. Log in requires your active PTC Web Support username and password. For a limited time, PTC Maintenance Customers can sign-up and gain free access to Knovel without obligation. MathCAD customers are also entitled to 10 free downloads in any format (MathCAD, Excel, PDF etc).

What Kind of Solution Content Does Knovel Offer?
Knovel Math provides a variety of MathCAD worksheets on topics such as statics, stress and strain, flexural analysis, steel, concrete and timber, surveying, fluid mechanics, engineering economics to name a few. Using Knovel Math’s search database makes it easy to find worksheets or browse through the several MathCAD enabled articles. Once the desired worksheet is found, clicking on the MathCAD link will automatically download the worksheet into MathCAD. All documents are fully documented with detailed descriptions, some diagrams and worked examples.
Knovel also currently offers a “Free Titles Package” which is a free subscription package containing more than 10 premier handbooks and databases. Registration is free however this package won’t allow you access to the full to all the information available but it does give you enough access to get a taste of what Knovel can offer. Several of their most widely used titles are included in the free subscription which includes:
• Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
• Electric Machinery and Transformers (3rd Edition)
• Engineering Problem Solving - A Classical Perspective
• Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards
• Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
• Handbook of Nanomedicine
• Hyperspectral Data Compression
• International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology (1st Electronic Edition)
• Knovel Critical Tables (2nd Edition)
• Knovel Sample Book
• Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, Volumes 1-2
• Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS-01)
• Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition)
• Teaching Engineering
• Wettability
As an added bonus Knovel® also offers registered users access to new and popular handbooks via their “Titles of the Week Program” where every week, 2 popular titles from their extensive databases are chosen and made available for a limited time. All of which can be used to enhance your MathCAD experience especially for those with a strong engineering background. Knovel® Math can be accessed via MathCAD in the main page by going to Tools > Knovel® > Search Knovel Math. This will direct you to their website or alternatively you can go to http://www.knovel.com/web/portal/main.

The new Knovel MathCAD options are one aspect of the value Mathcad 15 delivers to its users. For a free demo of Mathcad 15 inside Australia, test users can download the free full-version trial HERE. Users outside Australia should contact their local PTC partner, or contact PTC directly.

Old Door / Porta antiga

Porta antiga1.rfa

Corrente 3D / 3D Chain

3D_Chain_-_Strechable.rfa

Undernda blog

My colleague and friend, William Lopez Campo has finally decided to unleash a blog on us. You may well remember William from last years AU 2009 design slam, he was also the winner for the Berlin design slam with this little beauty…

A quick chat with William today and this is his vision for the blog…

“I’m hoping to capture some of those little developments I start but never finish, like the Inverse Kinematics application in Revit, or some scripting ideas that never progressed. Hopefully the comments and feedback will keep me going and I may get help to go past the tricky bits where I get stuck or inspire other explorations.”

Be sure to check out his blog at http://undernda.blogspot.com/

I promise you, there will be some high level stuff here! Welcome William, to the world of blogging. :-)

The Case for Eating Insects

Here is a recent article that was forwarded to me by the President of the Entomological Society of Saskatchewan. I found it interesting and thought you might too. On a semi-related note, I found this past weekend that peanut butter & Nutella on a bagel makes for an excellent camping breakfast, especially when washed down by some fresh unfiltered Okanagan apple cider! So, what do you suppose the insect component of that meal was?

The case for eating insects – Eatocracy - CNN.com Blogs

Bicycle

BYCICLE.rfa

Lessons Learned From a Bad Day on Blackstrap

Here is an interesting article that appeared in the recent Star Phoenix. It makes the case for, among other things, receiving proper paddling instruction and interviews Kevin from Eb's and Viki from Kingston Kayak Instruction (see here for a recent post relating to lessons I took from Viki).

For those not from the region, Blackstrap Lake is a long narrow prairie lake set in a valley. Winds can come up quickly and would be funnelled and intensified within the valley.

Lessons learned from a Bad Day on Blackstrap

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AUGI | AEC Edge Spring 2010

As noted on Steve Staffords blog, the spring issue of AUGI | AEC EDGE is out. Some great content in this issue and look out for an article by a chap called “Light” who claims he knows a thing or two about Revit. :-)

Gymnasium Equipment

Treadmill_4768.rfa

Gymnasium Equipment

Elliptical_Machine.rfa

Chairs

cadeiras1.rvt

Sex and the single paddler

   OK, the title of this post is a little misleading. We just wanted to see how it would affect our analytics. But this is a post about sex -- the female sex -- and the issue of all-women's classes and symposia.

Ladies of the Lake, the spirited midwestern all-women's symposium, begins shortly.

   Over the years, Sharon and Hannah have taught a number of classes that are specifically billed as women-only. We've written about this before in greater depth, but in our experience, women-only classes offer opportunities to address:

• woman-specific paddling issues, such as having less upper-body strength and more upper-body bulk than most male paddlers (not to mention how to pee while on the water);
• woman-specific insecurities, such as dealing with a male paddling partner who is faster/stronger/bossier or has a different set of expectations for a day on the water; 
• woman-specific strengths, including our ability to encourage one another while we overcome our fears and learn new skills.

   Some symposia have a women's track or some women-only classes. But the upcoming Ladies of the Lake (now in its seventh year), sponsored by Downwind Sports, is a women-only symposium.
   Just because this is a women's symposium doesn't mean it isn't every bit as exciting and challenging as a mixed-gender symposium. We work on strokes, rolling, braces, navigation and incident-management, and if the surf's up, we go out and catch the waves. And just because it's a women's symposium doesn't mean we think we can only have this kind of fun with women. In fact, many of us instructors love paddling with men, learning from men, teaching men and even competing with men. We're sure the same is true of many of our students.
   But there is something very powerful about gender camaraderie, especially for a gender that has historically been discouraged from pursuing physically challenging activities. And if registration numbers for this year's Ladies of the Lake symposium are any indication, the appeal of women-specific kayak classes is still strong.

Roupeiro 2 Portas

Roupeiro de duas portas de correr, Materiais aplicaveis. Versão 2009

Roupeiro 2P.rfa

Janela Veka 2 Folhas

Janela_Veka_2_folhas.rfa

Porta duas Folhas VEKA

Porta dupla entrada_Veka_2_folhas.rfa

Curtain Walls

Divisorias_Eurodivisal.rvt

Curtain Door

curtain Door simples.rfa

Emergency door

emergency door.rfa

Roupeiro 4 portas de correr

closet 4 doors.rfa

Janela de duas folhas de abrir

Window.rfa

Porta simples Interior

port_simpl.rfa

Porta com abertura controlada em 3D e 2D

Door with a 3D opening.rfa

Cozinha

Kitchen1.rvt

Raillings

Raillings.rvt

Crazy stairs

Este ficheiro não é rfa é rvt versão Arq 2009, achei-o na net, e não alterei nada.
São umas escadas muita malucas, muito giras.

Insane Stairs.rvt

WC

WC.rvt

Salas

Livingroom1.rvt

Salas

Livingroom2.rvt

Roupeiro 3 portas de correr

Este foi a pedido...
Para inserir numa parede como se fosse uma janela, familia parametrizada

Closet 3doors.rfa

Olá de novo

Olá de novo.
Peço desculpa pelo incomodo. vi-me forçado a mudar de blog, por razões alheias a mim.
Espero que continuem a seguir este novo blog como estavam a seguir o original. Se é que alguem o segue...