4K or Retina displays - do they work with ArchiCAD?

[Anonymous]

Just curious if there will be an updated version of ArchiCad for Apple's Retina Display.

[Anonymous]

outpostarc wrote:
Just curious if there will be an updated version of ArchiCad for Apple's Retina Display.

In the apple keynote it was a autobad screenshot

[Anonymous]

Jose wrote:

outpostarc wrote:
Just curious if there will be an updated version of ArchiCad for Apple's Retina Display.

In the apple keynote it was a autobad screenshot

Yeah I was disappointed to see that. Especially when ArchicAD and Apple worked closely together 15 years ago... AutoCAD in this respect seems like 'the future', but the core of the software is still way in the past.

Come on ArchiCAD, make some BIG updates... Full screen (for 2 screen support), new user interface and retina support. If you look over the past 5 ArchiCAD release, nothing has changed interface wise... this worries me.

[Greg Kmethy]

We are definietly going to support Retina Display. (We were the first to support Retina Display on the IPad) There are a few modifications we have to do to ArchiCAD to make it happen. First, there are a couple of small adjustments we need to do to make the graphical user interface work properly in HiDPI mode. We have already made these adjustments in ArchiCAD 16, and we are going to release a Hotfix for ArchiCAD 15 with these fixes.

Later this summer we are going to release an update for ArchiCAD 16 that makes it fully HiDPI-compliant - meaning that all ArchiCAD 2D/3D windows will display the model in high resolution.

We will keep you updated here as development progresses.

[Anonymous]

gkmethy wrote:
We are definietly going to support Retina Display. (We were the first to support Retina Display on the IPad) There are a few modifications we have to do to ArchiCAD to make it happen. First, there are a couple of small adjustments we need to do to make the graphical user interface work properly in HiDPI mode. We have already made these adjustments in ArchiCAD 16, and we are going to release a Hotfix for ArchiCAD 15 with these fixes.

Later this summer we are going to release an update for ArchiCAD 16 that makes it fully HiDPI-compliant - meaning that all ArchiCAD 2D/3D windows will display the model in high resolution.

We will keep you updated here as development progresses.

Very good news!!!

[Marton Kiss]

gkmethy wrote:
We will keep you updated here as development progresses.

I have created an ArchicadWiki article to collect the latest updates regarding the Retina Display: http://archicadwiki.com/RetinaDisplay

As soon as we have updated news I'll post it there.

[Anonymous]

Great. Thanks for the response guys.

[Anonymous]

Great news, the new screen is amazing to! BTW

[Anonymous]

Hopefully the palettes will get smaller, rather than staying the same relative size, and just getting sharper. That's the only way we'll get extra usable screen space out of the 15" display (now that the 17" MBP is no more).

For example, I use a 17" MBP and 30" Apple Cinema Display at the office(2560x1600). When I'm working at home just on the MBP (1920x1200), I have to use a different Work Environment to get everything on one, smaller screen.

To be able to switch from a 2880x1800 Retina Display MBP to a 30" display, or any other machine, it would be great if AC's palettes simply had, say, three scales. Rather than rearranging the Work Environment for different displays (including workstations in our office with a 21" and 23" or two 23" displays) it would be much more convenient to simply have one office WE and scale it to the display (or user preferences to have, say tiny tiny icons).

[Anonymous]

They seem to be in hot demand so I've ordered one. I had a play in the shop. It is interesting you can't actually pick a resolution, they just have 5 options: best for retina, then you have two options either side to make it bigger or smaller.....

There's a good overview here: http://blog.xero.com/2012/07/resolution/