topic Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage in Collaboration with other software

Encina Acquired by Cadimage

TMA_80 — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:30:18 GMT

Hi,

http://www.cadimagegroup.com/news/encina.htm

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:04:32 GMT

I hope that this acquisition doesn't mean that the Encina products such as Objective, free to upgrade until now, will require exorbitant upgrade fees, as is the case with the Cadimage product line.

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:55:21 GMT

If Cadimage are the UK reseller as per NZ then I'm jealous. They offer a value proposition to NZ users that is pretty much unmatched elsewhere.

Actually the caliber and breadth of tools is such that I'd like to see GS take over CADIMAGE. the suites could be available to subscription users.
IMHO the kind of thinking GS needs to survive.

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:41:12 GMT

Oh dear! Although I like the Cadimage tools and find them useful, the annual upgrade fee from one version of Archicad to the next is exhorbitant, since generally there is little if any functional improvement. I also have Objective and have never had to pay for an upgrade!

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:26:35 GMT

With Ralph on board, maybe C.I. will come out with a flexible Truss-Builder?
Hope springs eternal:-)

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Aaron Bourgoin — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:57:20 GMT

Props! to Campbell & Ralph for recognizing their respective genii! and doing something about that.

Campbell. your next acquisition should be Graphisoft.

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:33:00 GMT

Aaron wrote:
Campbell. your next acquisition should be Graphisoft.

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:43:55 GMT

Aaron wrote:
Props! to Campbell & Ralph for recognizing their respective genii! and doing something about that.

Campbell. your next acquisition should be Graphisoft.

Like +1

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:05:02 GMT

Karl wrote:
I hope that this acquisition doesn't mean that the Encina products such as Objective, free to upgrade until now, will require exorbitant upgrade fees, as is the case with the Cadimage product line.

Karl, don't hold your breath, I have been looking for the AC17 version of objective and am pretty sure that there will be a significant cost annually to get it now, will probably have to do without it unless the cost is reasonable and not a hostage situation price >> 'all it takes is money'.

just did a little bit of investigation and it appears that to use objective via upgrade is so far still free, thanks cadimage, hope this lasts for a few years.

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:54:11 GMT

46cruisair wrote:
just did a little bit of investigation and it appears that to use objective via upgrade is so far still free, thanks cadimage, hope this lasts for a few years.

My understanding from Cadimage is that the upgrade to 17 is the last free one.

Re: Encina Acquired by Cadimage

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:20:25 GMT

yep, this one is free and the next are at a reduced rate. they lowered their annual upgrade across the board from a 25% of add-on cost to 20%, and if you upgrade early you get to take another 20% off of that, at least this year that's how it works. i guess they'll look at doing that annually and probably base it on how the economy is doing generally, right now it still sucks for architectural work.