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Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

TMA_80 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:03:48 GMT

Hi!

Besides GS, Cigrah, Cadimage plugins, what are the other plugins available for Archicad ?

It would be intresting to have a list of the availabe/disapeared plugins for archicad, which one you find interesting (even from gs/abvent/cadimage/cigraph)

maybe like this one...or the sadly dispeared rx duplicator or Plan2model

[UPDATE] In this link, there is a preliminary list of "the known" ArchiCAD addons.

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:20:12 GMT

Looks like a great utility! Have you used it much?

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

TMA_80 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:27:46 GMT

hi !

i haven't used it that much, only few times with reliable/good results, this add-on is however only available for ac10/11 and not for 12 yet...

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Chazz — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:31:57 GMT

i couldn't get the video to play.....

Strange that it is fairly old (the manual is dates to early 2008) but I've never heard mention of it before. Maybe it's newly translated to english?

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Thomas Holm — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:13:21 GMT

TMA_80 wrote:
...i haven't used it that much, only few times with reliable/good results, this add-on is however only available for ac10/11 and not for 12 yet...

On the contrary (I'm sorry [for them] - some people really suck at making working web sites...)

The Smart Facade Tool is made (or sponsored) by Cembrit Holding A/S which is a Danish fibre cement board operation with a lot of nice products, like these (hover your mouse in the pictures, and disregard the Swedish). If you want to use similar products, this may be worth trying.

The Add-On is primarily intended to make it easy to specify and order their Cembrit/Minerit products, but with some lateral thinking you can of course extend its use.

The Add-On IS updated for Archicad 12 (see below), although I haven't used that version myself.
The f...ing demo reel won't work on my Macs either.

Some links:
The manual page is in English and fairly comprehensive.
Smart Façade Tool manual

The add-on:
Download Smart Façade Tool 1.42

The necessary library:
Download Smart Façade Library 1.42

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:43:55 GMT

TMA_80 wrote:
Besides GS, Cigrah, Cadimage plugins, what are the other plugins available for Archicad ?

This add-on looks cool:
http://www.mad.fi/mad/englishzonematic.html

It's called Zonematic (something out of Transformers), and takes a tabulated list, or a excel sheet, and turns it into Zones.
It then allows you to group them by dependencies.

I downloaded the trial, installed, read the 2 page manual and made it work in less than 15 minutes.

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:52:31 GMT

Lets not forget the master...

www.encina.co.uk

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:52:49 GMT

Lets not forget the master...

www.encina.co.uk

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:53:26 GMT

TMA_80 wrote:
It would be intresting to have a list of the availabe/disapeared plugins for archicad, which one you find interesting (even from gs/abvent/cadimage/cigraph)

I would be happy if this list was compiled on www.gotogdl.net. After all, any Add-On to some extent linked to the GDL.

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:05:24 GMT

Here is a Russian developer. http://www.labpp.ru/index.php

LabPP_Landscape - Library and Add-On for landscape design.
Labpp_Calc - calculator for quick calculations in ArchiCAD.

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:16:57 GMT

Some nice hungarian add-ons and libraries http://eptar.hu/eptar_letoltes.php

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:27:44 GMT

Thomas wrote:

The Add-On IS updated for Archicad 12 (see below), although I haven't used that version myself.
The f...ing demo reel won't work on my Macs either.

Wow!!! Thanks!!! Working on my macintel AC12 (just rename SFT to SFT.apx)

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Aaron Bourgoin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:34:07 GMT

In the mid 90s - which would pre-date the widespread distribution of the SDK - American ArchiCAD resellers started oohing and ahhhhing about a new tool in the Japanese version of ArchiCAD that produced the shadowing studies required by the Building Authorities there.

As I recall it plotted the shadow's cast on adjacent buildings and their duration throught he course of a day in each season. Calculations were involved to satisfy shadow footprint requirements and so a graphic was produced. A one-off thing like an EcoDesigner report.

Is there anyone on this Forum that:

a) saw it in action;
b) know of its current status;
c) if they had it, could re-write it for current versions and give it or sell it;
d) know why the hell it isn't standard fare in all versions of the software, esp. now that we're all so environmentally aware.

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Erika Epstein — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:58:28 GMT

If I recall correctly, Ignacio Azpiazu on this forum was asking how to do just this in archicad in the last year or two. Not that we all aren't wanting this.
Aaron,
As you are a reseller, have you already contacted the Japanese reseller about this?

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:29:28 GMT

Erika,

Good suggestion. I'll put it on the to-do list.

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

TMA_80 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:00:35 GMT

it seems there is a new archicad plugin (saw this on the AU (winter session) ads ) !

http://hicad.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=5

Anyone have an idea how this add-on works (not a free one / 200 euros !)

P.S: while late, thanks Thomas for the ac12 Cembrit plugin link , now we should have the one for the 13th edition 😉 (& thanks everyone for your inputs )

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:37:08 GMT

I still miss all rx add-ons:
rxAutoMaterials
rxDuplicator
rxGutters

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Achille Pavlidis — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:16:55 GMT

Thomas wrote:
The Smart Facade Tool is made (or sponsored) by Cembrit Holding A/S which is a Danish fibre cement board operation with a lot of nice products, like these (hover your mouse in the pictures, and disregard the Swedish). If you want to use similar products, this may be worth trying.

The Add-On is primarily intended to make it easy to specify and order their Cembrit/Minerit products, but with some lateral thinking you can of course extend its use.

The Add-On IS updated for Archicad 12 (see below), although I haven't used that version myself.
The f...ing demo reel won't work on my Macs either.

Thank you very much!!!!!!

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

TMA_80 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:21:57 GMT

So, from some recent posts a serie of sharware plugins ( hope to see some of them integrated into archicad 😉 😞

simpleaddon.com

Re: Known and less known add-ons for ArchiCad

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:05:16 GMT

TMA_80 wrote:
So, from some recent posts a serie of sharware plugins ( hope to see some of them integrated into archicad 😉 😞

simpleaddon.com

When I try to download txt shows up in the safari, any reason why?