topic Re: ArchiWizard (France): An alternative to EcoDesigner..... in Sustainable design

ArchiWizard (France): An alternative to EcoDesigner.....

PB — Thu, 11 May 2023 08:23:45 GMT

Having just received an email promoting the latest release of ArchiWIZARD, a BIM energy analysis package available in France, I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on this product from their experience (version 1, that is - V2 is only just being released)?

From a non-expert perspective, it seems considerably more advanced than ED, given that it takes account of solar incidence, external shading elements, etc.

The clear advantage to those of us in France is that it will, apparently, provide the compliance calculations for the impending mandatory energy regulations (RT2012).

I would dearly love ecoDesigner to do the same - for both French & UK reg's in my case.......

Re: ArchiWizard (France): An alternative to EcoDesigner.....

PB — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:41:41 GMT

Just thought I'd re-launch this question - can anyone inform us?

Archiwizard seems to be significantly ahead of EcoDesigner*, or am I missing something...?

Re: ArchiWizard (France): An alternative to EcoDesigner.....

chrrev — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 04:01:31 GMT

I thought ArchiWiz was for Revit and Sketchup via IFC, is there a Archicad version?

Re: ArchiWizard (France): An alternative to EcoDesigner.....

Barry Kelly — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:45:24 GMT

If it simply uses IFC files, then Archicad can export those.

Barry.

Re: ArchiWizard (France): An alternative to EcoDesigner.....

DGSketcher — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:38:00 GMT

Not a good sign when you search for Archiwizard and the results are dominated by crack codes...

Re: ArchiWizard (France): An alternative to EcoDesigner.....

Andy Thomson — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:29:57 GMT

ED does do solar incidence calcs (refer to attached) on a window by window basis and does incorporate shading effects from structures and designated overhangs at each window dialogue.