ARCHline.XP 2009 or ArchiCAD 12?

[Anonymous]

I have to make decision - to by ArchiCAD 12 or ARCHline.XP 2009 - both of them are great programs, but difference in price is large ~1000 €.

Can you tell me why to buy one of them but not the other?

[Djordje]

Thorn wrote:
Nevermind.

We made decision yesterday - our choice is Revit.

Why?

[Erika Epstein]

Djordje wrote:

Thorn wrote:
Nevermind.

We made decision yesterday - our choice is Revit.

Why?

Ditto, Why?

[Rakela Raul]

why?
there r alot of people here ditto'g

[Anonymous]

Thorn wrote:
Nevermind.

We made decision yesterday - our choice is Revit.

Why? Sure would be interesting to see the A3 (Lean) sheet on that decision. As time goes by, it will be a sheet for your firm to hang on the wall to remind you how you got to where you will be.

[Brett Brown]

Simple, They probably realised that they would have to buy all the extra addons from Encina,Cigraph and Cadimage to bring Archicad up to what Revit can do out of the box. And seeing what the standard simple things that are still missing in AC 13 and are already in Revit, the decision seems easy to me.

Lets face it, Archicad, without all those addons just can't compete.

Look out Graphisoft, with the addition of API to Revit (which they didn't need). There is already some fantastic addons available, and of course made by Kiwis.

[Anonymous]

Main reason is that our co-operants using Revit.

Yesterday we decided to, besides Revit, buy Archline.XP not ArchiCAD, because we get more for less money - maybe we don't have graphisoft's gdl objects, but we have parametric objects, online libraries and most of cigraph's addons.

It is a question of what YOU can do using them.

Yes - it is question - with Archline I can do almost everything I can do with Archicad and more... That is main reason why we will take Archline.

[Anonymous]

Thorn wrote:
Main reason is that our co-operants using Revit.

Yesterday we decided to, besides Revit, buy Archline.XP [...]

It is a question of what YOU can do using them.

Yes - it is question - with Archline I can do almost everything I can do with Archicad and more... That is main reason why we will take Archline.

I appreciate your candor. Your firm can still benefit from writing out an A3 on the evals you've done and the decisions made. Ideally, these are done sooner rather than later, so the true decision mechanism and important factors can be appreciated later. I am curious as to the requirements met by Archline but not by Revit; i.e., why ArchLine and Revit?

I take it that the bulk of your projects are under 150ksf and that your interest in the "I" of BIM are minimal. (Is that correct?)

[Rakela Raul]

I take it that the bulk of your projects are under 150ksf and that your interest in the "I" of BIM are minimal.

I didnt know that Archiline and Revit cannot handle projects abv 150ksf....if I understood correctly..thx good to know.
I rather Virtual Building for Archicad and not BIM.....someone might question the 'M' as you question others 'I'.

[Anonymous]

what is "150ksf" and why you thing that archline is not BIM, if I understand you correctly?

[Anonymous]

Thorn asked:

what is "150ksf" and why you thing that archline is not BIM, if I understand you correctly?

'150ksf' stands for '150,000 square feet' or '150kilo-square-feet'

Rakela Raul said, among other things:

I didnt know that Archiline and Revit cannot handle projects abv 150ksf....if I understood correctly.

AFAIK, they can. I know nothing about Archline.
About Revit, it's clear that it has substantial difficulty handling large projects, especially where substantial information is needed. My point was about the majority of the projects being done in a specific size range.