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A R C H I C A D 1 5 - it's gotta be asked.

rob2218 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:39:37 GMT

Ok, it's gotta be asked unless it's already been asked.
When? this year?
What can we speculate (wikileaks) the improvements would be to?

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Link — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:33:43 GMT

As is the case with every version, anyone who knows is legally bound not to say when or what. Neither would we want to - I think the big gorilla has pinched enough of our features, let's not give them a head start.

My layman/alpha/beta tester insight on the process is that Graphisoft obviously don't sit around until 'that time of year' and then decide what they'll add to the new version. To a large extent development is roadmapped years in advance. As with any software development, the alpha version and pre-alpha projects are created and tested way ahead of their final release date, so that the concepts can be set, and the main code can be edited, tested, bug fixed, etc, etc.

As a tester it's not exactly like we can influence the front end development (although we try bloody hard!), we mostly help reduce the amount of bugs in the code that has already been edited towards the end. We do this mainly for the love of the program, and if we put in a big individual effort, perhaps an award/reward. We certainly don't get paid.

Rest assured that extremely smart people are looking after the development of the program, and they are well aware of the outstanding wishes and bugs. And they are listening. All I can say about the next version, from what I've seen, is that I'm very excited about some of the long-standing wishes that will be included.

Take a look at the past release schedule and you can do you rmath on when the next version may come out. Good things come to those who wait (and pay).

Cheers,
Link.

Re: A R C H I C A D 1 5 - it's gotta be asked.

JaredBanks — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:22:13 GMT

Also, did you catch the Eco Designer webinar from tuesday? At the end, they talk a bit about Eco Designer in v15 and beyond. I need to go back and watch the hole thing; I only caught bits of the end. But it sounds like we have some good stuff in store.

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Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:05:15 GMT

I had the luck of being shown by the guys at GS Product Design every little feature and option of what will be new in ArchiCAD 15.
Honestly, as an architect, I just got more and more excited as they told me all the various things they did.
I hope that a lot of people will really like it when it comes out.

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Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:15:41 GMT

JaredBanks wrote:
Also, did you catch the Eco Designer webinar from tuesday? At the end, they talk a bit about Eco Designer in v15 and beyond. I need to go back and watch the hole thing; I only caught bits of the end. But it sounds like we have some good stuff in store.

By the way, here is the recorded EcoDesigner webinar.

http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/marketing/ed/ed-2011/ecodesigner-2011.video_frame

It is HTML 5-based so currently it does not play in Internet Explorer 8.
It works for me both in Firefox and Chrome.
I will post another link if there will be IE8-compatible version.

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rob2218 — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:19:07 GMT

So....Laszlo...probably come out.....umm...when?
June 2011? this year perhaps?

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Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:21:55 GMT

You know that I can't say.
Besides, I don't know, no one knows for sure.
A new version is released when it is already released.

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Anonymous — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:40:28 GMT

so, I don't want to sound bitter or anything, but let me just ask a simple question:

Is Graphisoft going to do anything about the Stairmaker tool?

Because if they don't, no matter what AC 15 will be capable of doing, it's still going to be a CAD without a usable stair tool. And that's not acceptable.

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rob2218 — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:48:01 GMT

Ok Laszlo...
your tone said it all.

June 15, 2011 - Release date for Archicad 15..........."Got it!"
thanks.......

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Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:56:23 GMT

rob2218 wrote:
Ok Laszlo...
your tone said it all.

June 15, 2011 - Release date for Archicad 15..........."Got it!"
thanks.......

Everyone is free to make their own assumptions.

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Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:11:42 GMT

rob2218 wrote:
So....Laszlo...probably come out.....umm...when?
June 2011? this year perhaps?

I would encourage anyone waiting to hear what is coming in 15 to save the time that they would spend making speculations, and instead learn all of the features in 14 and earlier that they have not yet learned.

No feature will replace having to really understand what has come before. 😉

Cheers,
Karl

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Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:04:53 GMT

Karl wrote:
No feature will replace having to really understand what has come before. 😉

Cheers,
Karl

could you repeat that? In your best Yoda voice! 🙂

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Anonymous — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:34:38 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
I had the luck of being shown by the guys at GS Product Design every little feature and option of what will be new in ArchiCAD 15.
Honestly, as an architect, I just got more and more excited as they told me all the various things they did.
I hope that a lot of people will really like it when it comes out.

We have ways of making you talk. If we could only find you. Didn't you say you were from North Carolina?

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Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:13:53 GMT

Enrico wrote:
so, I don't want to sound bitter or anything, but let me just ask a simple question:

Is Graphisoft going to do anything about the Stairmaker tool?

Because if they don't, no matter what AC 15 will be capable of doing, it's still going to be a CAD without a usable stair tool. And that's not acceptable.

Hi Enrico,

Have you got the Cadimage Stair Builder tool yet?

Back to AC 15 -16 rumour about free form modeling, is this true?

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vistasp — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:12:57 GMT

mthd wrote:
Back to AC 15 -16 rumour about free form modeling, is this true?

You'll know as soon as Mark Gillis finds Laszlo Nagy wandering around in North Carolina.

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Dwight — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:14:20 GMT

vistasp wrote:
mthd wrote:
Back to AC 15 -16 rumour about free form modeling, is this true?
You'll know as soon as Mark Gillis finds Laszlo Nagy wandering around in North Carolina.

And tempts him with women, liquor and barbeque.

Re: A R C H I C A D 1 5 - it's gotta be asked.

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:45:42 GMT

I can tolerate a lot of pain so it will be hard to get anything out of me.

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vistasp — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:07:16 GMT

Which is probably why Dwight suggested a different method.

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rob2218 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:51:07 GMT

What's in North Carolina related to GS?

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Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:10:15 GMT

rob2218 wrote:
What's in North Carolina related to GS?

All the moonshine Laszlo can drink 😉