BIMx ArchiCAD 17 save as .app and .exe

[Erwin Edel]

From what I understood from Kubus (dutch reseller) the option to save as .app and .exe has been removed from BIMx with ArchiCAD 17. The reason being if people receive those as email attachments, they end up in spam. I can understand that, but I would still prefer to have the option to choose if I tell someone to download and install a program or just receive one file they can run. Not all my clients are proficient enough with computers to install a program. Some of them just have very shiny macbooks and they just about manage to double click an icon.

I would post this a wish, but not quite sure which category to list it under.

[David Collins]

I also think the executable file option was the best way to share project information with clients. As a minor issue, now there's no way to export custom sky boxes with our projects. We're stuck with that awful default nuclear winter that comes with the separate app.

See:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=33712
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=31116

[Erwin Edel]

Daniel wrote:
Thanks Karl, for directing me to the polling!

I am guessing that a lot of people didn't start using BIMx until v17, so aren't even aware of the earlier easier version, or there would have been a flood of complaints about this.

What I couldn't understand though, was why Windows only needed a single executable file, while the Mac save created a folder with multiple files?

While .app appears as a folder on windows, it is one file on osx.