All,
This Archicad-Forma connection is a very welcome first step, however in it's current format it is a lot of smoke and mirrors.
Momentarily this connection is strictly a one way street, that may work for large Archicad studios to "comply" with Forma mandated project workflows, however, it is of no real benefit for the Archicad users at all.
- Yes, if you go for the (more pricy) collaborate subscription, and add a Forma seat to your already expensive set of required software, you can now upload your model into Forma, and assumably, the Revit user on the other end can use the model directly from Forma, however
- We, Archicad users have no benefit from the whole thing at all, because we still have to request the Revit guys to upload an ifc or rvt model which we have to download and import it as a Hotlink...
I am quite convinced that the solution lies somewhere in how Archicad manages Hotlinks.
The current HLM system is antiquated anyway, so I seriously hope that it will be updated in Archicad 30...
Honestly, at the moment I can't see any other functionality in Archicad than HLM that is completely broken and needs a full overhaul.
Yes, there are wishes, that would be nice if were listened to, but most of them would only make our work a little better, whereas HLM's, if properly updated would open a whole different universe.
As since Archicad 27 there wasn't any significant update or mention-worthy new feature introduced, I have high hopes for AC30. Please don't let me down 🙂
(Yes, the last new feature worth mentioning was the Design options... We just passed Archicad 28 and 29 without anything worthwhile to pay the subscriptions for...)
ArchiCAD since 4.5
Windows, Mac
