ArchiCAD 13 Mac interface

[Christiaan]

What's the status of the Mac interface in v13? Has it been tidied up to be more Mac-like yet?

[Karl Ottenstein]

You can watch the dozens of videos of 13 on the Graphisoft web site to see for yourself. Basically, no changes to the interface. They had their hands full with other priorities.

Cheers,
Karl

[Christiaan]

Yes I've seen them now, thanks.

[Anonymous]

The interface of Mac version ArchiCAD imho is really nice.

[Christiaan]

crazyASD wrote:
The interface of Mac version ArchiCAD imho is really nice.

Are you having a laugh? Not only does ArchiCAD not have a nice Mac GUI, it doesn't even have a *Mac* GUI!

This is a "really nice" Mac GUI for a pro app:
http://www.apple.com/aperture/
http://mac.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Apple-Aperture-Screenshot-13035.html

[archislave]

I am still furious about this. The mac interface is so antiquated and inferior to the windows version. This is the worst GUI of any Mac app I run. In fact, when I reinstalled 12 on my fresh Snow Leopard HD it actually had to install the legacy Rosetta environment. This means that Archicad is still using lots of libraries and code from pre OSX days I think. It is not a full OSX Intel app and shows. The palettes don't arrange well and the work environment setup is complicated.

They keep adding new features built on old plumbing. I was looking at Vectorworks the other day which seems much cleaner. I wonder why they don't create a new BIM app that combines the best of the two and is written in the latest technologies.

[David Larrew]

I work in both MAC and Windows to support my clients... Though I hate Windows, I must admit that I find the interface for ArchiCAD is much more user-friendly in Windows.

I sure hope that when GS developers migrate ArchiCAD to 64 bit they adopt the "true" Apple/MAC interface.

Look at iTunes... The Windows version mimics the MAC version - the way the program was originally designed. If GS could do this with ArchiCAD's interface it would be the best of both worlds.

[Mats_Knutsson]

I never understand this discussion. I've been using mac since 2 years and I think it looks pretty nice (Interface in general) but seriously lacks docking and ability to stretch windows/columns just by dragging a border...this applies to every program and is the reason I'm always smiling when using Windows. In AC I want almost no Interface...the toolbox and the navigator along with favorites is pretty much is my interface... It would be interesting to see different users WE. I think I would get a few good ideas from that.
We create a "swedish" general WE with "efficiency" as goal. It's based on the users input and slightly developed between each version if there is a need for it. The standard WE is pretty non-efficient for me at least.

I would love to have a button for "Reset WE"...

Btw...it would be great to hear if any windows users use the full-screen mode when designing in the 3D window. Full-screen 3D is the best way of presenting a project (even more so in 13 with the much improved openGL) but when you get the hang of the most important shortcuts it's a great modeling experience... No buttons or menus....just the model.

[Anonymous]

I think ArchiCAD needs a fullscreen mode, just as it has it for 3D modeling, or the way AutoCAD has that (shortcut Ctrl-0) or Photoshop has it... Not only for the 3D modeling.

I also experienced some problem with the palettes, especially with the Organizer Palette. I tried one time for about half an hour to stick it to the left part of the screen with another dock, put it was impossible, up until I did it and I don't know how I got it.

But I believe that this is not a complicated problem for Graphisoft to work on, and generally ArchiCAD is evolving on the right track and ahead compered with the other two (Revit & Vectorworks) BIM apps.


Keep the good work Graphisoft!

[Rod Jurich]

Drini wrote:
I think ArchiCAD needs a fullscreen mode, /....

I have no problem with palettes at all, and full screen either.
You just need to organise and save your palettes in your WE.