ARCHICAD 19 Reviews

[Laszlo Nagy]

http://www.aecmag.com/software-mainmenu-32/856-review-archicad-19-performance-bim

[Anonymous]

"Beta testers have told me that it’s a significant improvement and absolutely screams on Apple’s new Mac Pro, which comes with an Intel Xeon processor with up to 12 cores." ". . . ArchiCAD 19 is the only multi core BIM tool that could justify the purchase of a lovely Mac Pro and make use of the cores on its Xeon processor." Thank you for sharing the article it is a good read

[Anonymous]

Nice article about AC's power to use multicore processors to thier advantage to speed up 3d model generation time and all the other benefits that go along with this approach.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Here is another review of ARCHICAD 19:

http://www.worldcadaccess.com/upfrontezine/2015/05/more-multi-core-for-cad-1.html

[sinceV6]

"Providing search fields to reduce the number of items displayed by long lists"

I wonder where this is... building materials? layers? surfaces? fills? Hope is an all-around implementation.

Best regards.

[Laszlo Nagy]

I know of 3 Search-related places in AC19:

1. In the Surface Painter palette you can type in a search field and the Palette will display only those Surfaces that match your search text.

2. In the Scheme Settings Dialog, in the Fields panel, the available schedule fields are now selected in a SubDialog and in that SubDialog there is another Search field. If you type something there, only those Schedule Fields that contain the search text will be listed. This way it is easier to find the schedule fields you wish to add. For example, if you are creating a Door/Window Schedule Scheme and type "Height" here, 12 different schedule fields are listed the description of which contain the text "Height".

3. In the Find & Select dialog box, the “Surface Override” criterion has been changed to just “Surface”, and will search for the Surface regardless of whether it’s an override or the original Building Material surface.

[Anonymous]

Hmm in one breath they start with FEA....could it be search/Find an select materials
...No cigar!
BTW... FEA can be stationary or Non-stationary

[Steve Jepson]

johnadrian wrote:
"Beta testers have told me that it’s a significant improvement and absolutely screams on Apple’s new Mac Pro, which comes with an Intel Xeon processor with up to 12 cores." ". . . ArchiCAD 19 is the only multi core BIM tool that could justify the purchase of a lovely Mac Pro and make use of the cores on its Xeon processor." Thank you for sharing the article it is a good read

Still no GPU with ArchiCAD.

[stefan]

Steve wrote:

johnadrian wrote:
"Beta testers have told me that it’s a significant improvement and absolutely screams on Apple’s new Mac Pro, which comes with an Intel Xeon processor with up to 12 cores." ". . . ArchiCAD 19 is the only multi core BIM tool that could justify the purchase of a lovely Mac Pro and make use of the cores on its Xeon processor." Thank you for sharing the article it is a good read

Still no GPU with ArchiCAD.

What do you mean? The 3D Window display is fully using the GPU (OpenGL Acceleration). Or do you mean doing more general calculations on the GPU, such as preprocessing data or simulations such as EcoDesigner?

With a full multi-thread approach which seems to have received a huge boost in AC19, ArchiCAD seems quite capable and suitable for current generation of hardware.

But the GPU is being used extensively when using ArchiCAD. If you doubt it, just turn off hardware acceleration in the settings. And then try to look at textures and shadows in real-time.

[Anonymous]

But there are no shadows in real time
With all this processing power it seems strange that this cannot be an option.