topic Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced in Modeling

ArchiCAD 14 announced

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:19:55 GMT

The press release:

http://www.graphisoft.com/community/press_zone/archicad-14-announce.html

The product main page:

http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/index.html

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Anonymous — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:46:34 GMT

Yes here it is, certainty upgrade, which was not fully surprising.
Yes this is more than surprising.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Anonymous — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:14:19 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
The press release:

http://www.graphisoft.com/community/press_zone/archicad-14-announce.html

The product main page:

http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/index.html

The most shameful upgrade ever. Not worth it.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Aaron Bourgoin — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:40:17 GMT

dat_architect:

i'm so glad I stayed up to read your post. Most helpful. Thanks for that. I'm off to jump off a bridge now. Good-bye cruel world!

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Anonymous — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:21:15 GMT

plz, dont think that you will jump alone . . . i'm with you, too

Revit is something that i will try...i will use AC13 till i get in touch with Revitos and then good bye muchachos, at the end its only software...its a tool and why don't try something other and then see what tool is right for my job...

archicad 14 at this moment will not improve my modeling posibilitys, i will still have problem to draw a stair, custom shape of a wall without long workarounds, cut, rotate, bend, extrude, folow trough the path of solids which i cant draw in archicad etc etc etc I will lose time on same things as years before and thats too much for me

i wish that i can say Bravo GS but this is hard miss update in my opinion

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Anonymous — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:33:40 GMT

Aaron wrote:
dat_architect:

i'm so glad I stayed up to read your post. Most helpful. Thanks for that. I'm off to jump off a bridge now. Good-bye cruel world!

Please don't, it's just a software, there are more valuable things of life than BIM.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

_Salmon — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:38:53 GMT

I only want to say congratulations to GS Team for this effort and I encourage them to remain one step ahead as usual..

thank you Guys!!

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

andrewzarb — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:11:43 GMT

Oh boy! I've read a lot of negative comments about ArchiCAD14.

For me, I'm glad that the late release of 13 wasn't used as an excuse to move the upgrade cycle to later in the year. Congratulations GS for bringing the release back on track.

I'm already excited about these features:
- Direct Revit® MEP/Structure Link
- Reference-model Version Tracking
- Core Setting of Load-Bearing Elements
I've already been exchanging files with our engineer all improvements and the ability to only import the changes is great for productivity.

- Teamwork "Pack & Go"
Makes internet based Teamwork truly viable

- Shadows in Open GL
A long standing wish (ever since openGL was introduced)

- Import Surveyor's Data as Mesh
I've worked on projects where whole days have been spent on meshes of topography, essentially duplicating existing information.

And then there are these, I don't know how good they are but I'm prepared to be surprised.
- 64bit Mac version (of BIM server not ArchiCAD)
- Expanded Find & Select Criteria
- Easy Offset Functionality
- Layout Book Improvements
- Revisioning of Published Items
- Improved PDF Output
- Library Management Improvements
- New & Redesigned Library Parts

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Brett Brown — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:43:58 GMT

andrewzarb wrote:
64bit Mac version

Perhaps someone in the know can confirm this. New features only say 64-bit BIM Server on MacOS.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

owen — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:37:07 GMT

Brett wrote:
andrewzarb wrote:
64bit Mac version
Perhaps someone in the know can confirm this. New features only say 64-bit BIM Server on MacOS.

Anyone who would know is still under NDA .. as with previous releases if it hasn't been announced by Graphisoft then you can't talk about it until the NDA is lifted AFAIK.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:27:53 GMT

owen wrote:
Brett wrote:
andrewzarb wrote:
64bit Mac version
Perhaps someone in the know can confirm this. New features only say 64-bit BIM Server on MacOS.
Anyone who would know is still under NDA .. as with previous releases if it hasn't been announced by Graphisoft then you can't talk about it until the NDA is lifted AFAIK.

Yes, only the BIM Server is 64-bit on Mac with AC14.
Seems like rewriting the whole app for 64-bit is a bigger task than that.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

owen — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:37:01 GMT

but not too long now i hear

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:17:34 GMT

owen wrote:
but not too long now i hear

Hey, you know more than I do.
Actually, I have not been in contact with the programmers about this so I don't know anything about it.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

owen — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:24:34 GMT

ArchiCAD 14.1

(sorry shouldn't joke about these things)

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

andrewzarb — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:44:55 GMT

andrewzarb wrote:
- 64bit Mac version

My booboo.

I read through the brochure too quickly and misinterpreted that one.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Christiaan — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:20:28 GMT

Bah, Mac GUI is still broken.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

Christiaan — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:55:03 GMT

Judging by the interface of the server software it doesn't look like the Mac GUI will be fixed any time soon either.

Re: ArchiCAD 14 announced

TMA_80 — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:05:16 GMT

I don't know if anyone has this architosh issue but there seem to be an article about user interface for "future versions" of ArchiCAD.

http://architosh.com/2010/02/new-toshletter-arrives-march-1-get-it-now/

ToshLetter 2010 – No. 1

This issue of the ToshLetter is focused on BIM (Building Information Modeling) and the architectural industry. A brief description of the table of contents (TOC) follows below:

Discussions about ArchiCAD: Interface and Future Focus — this exclusive segment of our Architosh feature interview with Viktor Varkonyi, CEO of Graphisoft, touches on rare comments about how the company views its flagship BIM program’s user-interface and notes about the future production direction.