topic Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement in Modeling

Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:47:53 GMT

What do you think will be the impact of the recently anounced agreement between Autodesk and Bentley to share their APIs on the greater effort to support open standards like IFC that have proven more promising than proprietory formats. What will be the effect of this to the graphisoft/vico community in terms of supporting interoperability issues in the future.

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:44:38 GMT

It looks like a move by the big guys to bury the competition. Interoperablity between Autodesk and Bentley makes IFC much less viable in the market place.

I'd be happy to be wrong, and find out that everybody will be invited to join the party. But even then I doubt that the peons would get to sit at the main table.

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:46:38 GMT

Is there any good news one can share about future of GraphiSoft & ArchiCad, kind of tired of all negative thoughts?
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Rakela Raul — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:56:12 GMT

Is there any good news one can share about future of GraphiSoft & ArchiCad, kind of tired of all negative thoughts?
Thanks,
Joseph

same durn here......sick of it

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:43:30 GMT

ArchiCAD 12 is very fast and has some cool new features. Just how cool will depend on who you are and what you do. I am very please with the partial structure display myself.

I believe that GS has some stuff coming along in the next couple versions that will be very cool. Could even be game changing, but I don't know enough to be sure and can't even say what little I do know (sorry ) Maybe I'm not even supposed to say that much. Ooops?

I think GS still has some strong opportunities if they can take advantage of them. What I'd really like to hear is Nemetschek's game plan (assuming they have one).

On the other hand if Bush and company decide to attack Iran the backlash against buying American products could be a big boost.

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:50:18 GMT

Matthew wrote:
.........Could even be game changing..........

Coming from a Senior member makes a rookie feel a lot better no jumping off ship, keep it coming.
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Rick Thompson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:27:10 GMT

Archicad is the only solution worth considering (actually, probably the only one:) on a Mac, which happens to be the fastest growing platform, and the most progressive computer company. That counts for a lot in my book, so I have no worries AC will be around, and continue growing.

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Rakela Raul — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:39:29 GMT

Archicad is the only solution worth considering (actually, probably the only one:) on a Mac, which happens to be the fastest growing platform, and the most progressive computer company. That counts for a lot in my book, so I have no worries AC will be around, and continue growing

yesterday a bought a macbookpro and ac12 ROCKS !!!!

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Rod Jurich — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:23:33 GMT

Rakela wrote:
/......
yesterday a bought a macbookpro and ac12 ROCKS !!!!

Guess you will want to update your sig now, Raul
Welcome to the club.

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Rob — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:42:26 GMT

I love to watch those two cpu core stacks in the activity monitor nicely jumping up and down next to each other... It must be a beautiful symphony to see four of them grunting away in a Mac Pro... one day I'd say.

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:54:06 GMT

Rob wrote:
It must be a beautiful symphony to see four of them grunting away in a Mac Pro... one day I'd say.

Don't you mean eight? More like screaming than grunting (in a good way that is).

It is really cool (understatement).

I have been easily doing stuff in 12 that was difficult to impossible in 11.

I think Apple is going to see a run on Mac Pros after people start upgrading to 12.

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:56:39 GMT

Rick wrote:
Archicad is the only solution worth considering (actually, probably the only one:) on a Mac, which happens to be the fastest growing platform, and the most progressive computer company. That counts for a lot in my book, so I have no worries AC will be around, and continue growing.

Thanks for the comfort as long as AutoCad does not go after The Apple & sticks to Lemons.
Joseph

Re: Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:58:08 GMT

I found these links regarding the interoperability agreement which may interest some -

AEC magazines' view - http://www.aecmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=247

Bentleys' own view - http://communities.bentley.com/blogs/keith_bentleys_blog/archive/2008/07/31/the-bentley-autodesk-agreement-what-does-it-mean-for-bentley-users.aspx