ArchiCAD 17 announced

[Laszlo Nagy]

ArchiCAD 17 is announced today:

http://www.graphisoft.com/archicad/archicad_17/overview/

[Anonymous]

Yay!

ArchiCAD 17. The Wishlist Edition!

[Anonymous]

ArchiCAD 17. The Wishlist Edition!

I was looking for that word.... but new Intelligent Building Materials

[Anonymous]

They seem to have been busy at GS this year! Looks to be a great release with some really useful features to increase productivity. Possibly the best release for a while?

Favourite features -
Proper 'materials' rich with information.
Priority based connections for all building elements.
Storey height association for building elements.
Curved beams. (not sure if they have a cover fill yet!)
Core based reference line for walls and slabs.
Real-time cutplanes.

Biggest negative - I'm not on subscription any more :sadface:

[Anonymous]

I would say that the last few releases have been the best since 12.

13 and 14 were (for me) and most sole traders - not very relevant.

If the archi -gurus / beta testers are out of their NDA it would be good to hear a more detailed view?

[Anonymous]

Best items for me are -

Integrated BIX
Realtime 3D cutaway

Will be interesting to see the workflow of Priority based connections pans out.
I have a lot of spereate 2d details that I use

Biggest gimmick - BIMObject integration.

Cant wait to try demo

[Anonymous]

Peter wrote:

Biggest negative - Not on subscription any more :sadface:

What you mean by "Not on subscription"?

[Karl Ottenstein]

Miki wrote:

Peter wrote:

Biggest negative - Not on subscription any more :sadface:

What you mean by "Not on subscription"?

I'm not Peter, but since subscription varies by country and since you're in the US... subscription here is called ArchiPLUS:
http://www.graphisoftus.com/products_archiplus.php
and includes all upgrades for a year, keyplug insurance (replacement) and more as listed in the link.

I'm just a user - but a reminder to everyone: GS - at least in North America - is raising their prices on June 1 for the first time in many years - an increase of 18%. So now is the time to lock in the old prices. My personal ArchiPlus contract is expiring May 31, so I was able to sign up for a 3 year subscription at the old price.

Back to the topic (17): could be the biggest game changer since 10 IMHO. Lots of exciting stuff.

[Anonymous]

It seems (I hope) that ver. 17 improvements eliminate many of the gymnastics needed to have accurate live sections.

One tiny thing but nice is the multi-leader label object.

The speed is already fairly good but the background processing seems like it will be a great thing.

Core based reference lines - Very good.

I already use the 3d plan view for roof plans and am interested in using the new 3d RCP.

[Anonymous]

Miki wrote:

Peter wrote:

Biggest negative - Not on subscription any more :sadface:

What you mean by "Not on subscription"?

Sorry, missed an "I'm" out of the sentence. Edited to be clearer!

As Karl says, normally we are on a maintainance subscription (MES) costing around £4-500 a year for free upgrades, support, and discounted training. We cancelled it last year before AC16.