topic Re: Archicad 10 is announced in Modeling

Archicad 10 is announced

Greg Kmethy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:54:30 GMT

Dear Talkers,

You can read Graphisoft's announcement on Archicad 10 here:
http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/ac10/

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:50:07 GMT

Initial reaction; It was worth the wait. Very exciting.

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:55:22 GMT

the PDF import is a godsend.

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

justdhruv — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:54:21 GMT

is it universal binary for the MACtels?

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Electric Flute — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:58:01 GMT

I must say that despite of the excellent new features, Graphisoft needs to improve the marketing side of the announcement. Why not hire some good professionals? ArchiCAD deserves it.

Very poor website about a very good software

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:15:33 GMT

Overall ArchiCAD 10 looks to be very good! I look forward to using the many new features.

I'm optimistically hoping to be able to better use some of the old features namely, quantity calculations, but see no announcement of any new enhancements in this area. As usual Graphisoft alludes to this calculation functionality in the marketing hype...see Akos Pfemeter's partial quote from the press release:

"Our aim was to enable an unprecedented level of design freedom while staying within the Virtual Building framework of generating 3D geometry, quantity calculations and drawings. ..."

Can anyone at Graphisoft, or anyone in the know, provide us with more information on any new enhancements or improvements to the calculation functionality of this release?

Thanks,
Dan K

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:30:34 GMT

"Electric Flute" wrote:
I must say that despite of the excellent new features, Graphisoft needs to improve the marketing side of the announcement. Why not hire some good professionals? ArchiCAD deserves it.

Very poor website about a very good software :!:

I have to agree with you. I almost didn't see it on the website.

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:21:59 GMT

Take a look at the "archicad in action" section. It has a series of movies that highlight the new features...

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Greg Kmethy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:23:23 GMT

Dan wrote:

Can anyone at Graphisoft, or anyone in the know, provide us with more information on any new enhancements or improvements to the calculation functionality of this release?

Interactive schedule has been integrated in the workflow also, meaning that schedules are now special "model views" integrated in the navigator. You can place them as drawings on layouts (they are not GDL objects anymore). They stay of course interactive when placed on layout. The pet palette also works with them for easy resizing and restructuring. The settings interface is redesigned also.

Greg

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archislave — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:23:52 GMT

In the brochure it touts 'xp style control' with nary a mention of improved Mac OSX interface improvements. They did not mention that it will be a Universal App. It sounds more and more like like they care less about Mac Users. Archicad 9 had serious palette snapping and organization problems.

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Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:20:22 GMT

gkmethy wrote:

Interactive schedule has been integrated in the workflow also, meaning that schedules are now special "model views" integrated in the navigator. You can place them as drawings on layouts (they are not GDL objects anymore). They stay of course interactive when placed on layout. The pet palette also works with them for easy resizing and restructuring. The settings interface is redesigned also.

Greg

Greg,
Thank you for the reply...that sounds promising about the interactive schedules...Can't wait to see it in action!

On the other hand, what about any improvements/enhancements to List Shemes/Database, SQL, ODBC etc.??? And most importantly, can we expect to see better documentation for implementing these features in our daily work. I'm not trying to "rain on your parade" about ArchiCAD 10's announcement...I'm just looking for light at the end of the tunnel regarding "promised" funtionalty of the software that has never really fully materialized...I hope to be happily surprised.

Dan K

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Chazz — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:27:04 GMT

justdhruv wrote:
is it universal binary for the MACtels?

the wrote:
Operating System:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Pro or XP Pro x64 edition
Macintosh® OS X 10.3 or OS X 10.4

CPU:
Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel® Centrino®, or compatible
Power Macintosh® G4 1 GHz required
Power Macintosh G5 series recommended

RAM:
1 GB of RAM is required, more than 1GB is recommended for complex models

Hard Drive:
Minimum of 500 MB free hard disk space is required for a full installation.
An additional 2 GB is required for work with complex projects and 3D visualization.

Display:
Minimum resolution: 1024x768, Recommended resolution: 1280x1024
Standard Open GL graphic card with on-board video memory of 64 MB is required.
On-board video memory of 128 MB or more is recommended
To find compatibility data for Open GL VGA-cards, please visit the following website:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/compatibility.php
Note for Windows users: QuickTime® 6.5 or later and Java 2v1.4.2
or later are required to run Archicad. Archicad installer will
automatically install Java 2v1.5. and QuickTime 7 if they
are not present on your computer

Other comments on this forum have indicated that AC10 would be released as a binary but the above quote does seem a little ambiguous.

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:06:05 GMT

after reading a 120+ page rundown of new features, im very excited for this release now. assuming it does not have stability issues.

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Chazz — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:16:49 GMT

JNTDigital wrote:
after reading a 120+ page rundown of new features, im very excited for this release now.

Where was this? GS has a two page summary on the website but I've yet to see anything exhaustive.

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:20:51 GMT

Chazz wrote:
JNTDigital wrote:
after reading a 120+ page rundown of new features, im very excited for this release now.
Where was this? GS has a two page summary on the website but I've yet to see anything exhaustive.

Yes, Please let us know where we can see this "rundown". Does it by chance describe any new calculation features?

Dan K

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:21:44 GMT

archislave wrote:
In the brochure it touts 'xp style control' with nary a mention of improved Mac OSX interface improvements. They did not mention that it will be a Universal App. It sounds more and more like like they care less about Mac Users. Archicad 9 had serious palette snapping and organization problems.

Most of the example images on the web site are using the Mac OS X version though, so it obviously looks better..

😉

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Petros Ioannou — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:33:03 GMT

Well, finally!
Someone was listening!
The floor-plan representation problem I was referring to in my post
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=7178&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=90
is finally solved!

Thumbs up!

Petros

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Chazz — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:49:50 GMT

eeblack wrote:
Most of the example images on the web site are using the Mac OS X version....

Yeah but did you see the ghosted pointer every-time they zoomed in? Gawd....

The decision to use OSX in the demo movies may just have to do with the availability of good screen capture tools (the above yuckyness not withstanding). Still, I took it as a positive sign. However the lack of the Apple universal binary Logo anywhere in GS's marketing material is distressing. What's up?

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:55:18 GMT

Dan wrote:
Chazz wrote:
JNTDigital wrote:
after reading a 120+ page rundown of new features, im very excited for this release now.
Where was this? GS has a two page summary on the website but I've yet to see anything exhaustive.
Yes, Please let us know where we can see this "rundown". Does it by chance describe any new calculation features?

Dan K

http://www.designintegrations.com/files/ArchiCAD10/newfeatures10.pdf

Re: Archicad 10 is announced

Chazz — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:35:01 GMT

JNTDigital wrote:
http://www.designintegrations.com/files/ArchiCAD10/newfeatures10.pdf

Thanks! very helpful!