#ARCHICAD 18 PL SOFTWARE#
Reminded me of the software we had to work some 10 years ago, where our avatars glided trough space without moving their legs or arms, went straight through walls, and only had 4 or 5 preset facial expressions. The salesman had almost no facial and body expressions, so I presumed it was a local firm, riding on a low band connection. They where testing some couches and tables, changing and dragging them all over the place. Having gotten her way, Teresa was in animated discussion with what I presumed was a furniture salesman that had arrived recently at the site.
Thinking it would be a good idea to have an specialist present at this point, I asked our engineer Gunter from Germany to come over and have a look at the ceiling. After some shoving around with the walls and the windows, we managed to extract the living room from the main volume of the house, thus enabling us to provide the much desired domed ceiling. Betty was trying to explain that it was impossible to curve the ceiling, as we had the boys bedroom over it. She had seen in some magazine a domed ceiling, so she had tried to modify it, with disastrous results. Apparently Teresa Santos had been fooling around with the living room ceiling last night. Having said hello to everybody (no handshake or kisses - yet), we got right down to business. As I entered the building, I saw that Betty was in animated conversation with the Santos couple. It was a beautiful afternoon in São Paulo, with that special light that comes after a cleaning rainfall. She was staying at home today, and told me she already was at the site since 5.00, doing some last minute changes.Īctivating all the sensors, I donned the spectacles, and let myself get immersed in the system.
The email I received on my mobile yesterday asked me to be at the building site at 14.30 local time, so I had about 30 minutes to get there.Īfter checking all my mail, I phoned Betty, just to be sure she would also be there. Despite London traffic, I managed to arrive at the office at 9.00 sharp.