I would like to state that our company has used ArchiCAD for at least 6 versions and we have been busy and successful the entire time. We certainly credit ArchiCAD with helping us attain that success.
We like ArchiCAD and look forward to its continued development and improvement, however, I must say that in the current AEC space, having a CAD program that has absolutely no option for a native-format viewer is long past outmoded. I think especially as the industry adopts a more electronic workflow from project beginning to end, the ability to send native format (e.g. PLN) files to other members of the team for importing into their CAD programs, or simply to view a file quickly, without having to generate additional files (e.g. PDF or DWG) is crucially important to maintaining an efficient communication process. Especially given that the secondary files need add another level of version tracking/duplicate management to an already complex file management process.
It is past time for a Distributable PLN viewer, and I strongly urge the many other users out there, whose multitude of posts I have read, to respond here and show Graphisoft that a PLN viewer is a component we need. And we need it now.
Thanks,
Thomas Doxtater
