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ArchiCAD 18 announced

Laszlo Nagy
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Find the official announcement and new features at:

http://www.graphisoft.com/archicad/archicad-18/overview/
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Laszlo Nagy
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tlodge wrote:
I meant that the program does not seem to prevent you from closing or gives you a prompt window to the pdf publisher for the drawings marked for that issue - preventing the wrong date of issue. But I must concede I've re-watched the overview and it does allude to this feature??

As for the DWG remark- we've found that we need to publish DWGs and PDFs to satisfy consultants and clients alike (and allow for the occasional back track when the client changes their mind). currently if you publish the layout in pdf and continue to work the dwg published later reports and error which can cause issues.
If I correctly understand what you are saying:

So the way it works is there are Issues. Each Issue consists of any number of revised Layouts. An Issue has an Issue Data. The Issue Date is set automatically when you close the Issue with the Close Issue command button. After this point you can publish Layouts included in that Issue, or all Layouts, as PDF or DWG or any of the other available formats. The Issue Date in these published Layouts will reflect the date set at the moment you closed the Issue.
However, this last Issue can be Re-opened. You can make needed modifications, close the Issue again, and publish again. Then the Issue Date will be the date you closed the Issue the last time.
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Laszlo Nagy
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This page:

http://www.graphisoft.com/info/news/press_releases/archicad-18.html

says:

GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD® 18 will start shipping in June, 2014 with an impressive list of 26 local versions rolled out by the end of Q3 2014.
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TMA_80
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First personal impressions:

On the + side
++ the new rendering engine( although an option to drag and drop image maps would have been more handy/ a mapping tool is also missing)
third party engines also have made this feature less urgent than what it was before
+ the revision tool
+ the openbim ( but wasn't this enough advertised with all the older versions)

On the - side
- the natural constraint ( where is the "intelligent" constraint "gravity that follows its host..etc )
- for a 30th anniversary , some old implemented features are still waiting for attentions for decades ( a better hotlink tool/stairmaker/the curtain wall, graphical GDL editor, SEO & plan view... )
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Rob
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tlodge wrote:
Rob wrote:
So far this is the most comprehensive revisions tool I have ever seen in any AEC software.
Can't argue much with that Rob can I
Well observed indeed
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Karl Ottenstein
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Barry wrote:
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But there are a few smaller features.
One I can think of is editing multiple elements at once.
i.e. slab edge, wall reference line and roof pivot line all align with each other.
Select all three and edit the perimeter as if it was all one element in either plan or 3D.
To me this small feature is a HUGE improvement and time saver. It is just brilliant the way you can reshape your building in 3D compared to the tedium of previous versions.

There are dozens of other little improvements that may mean nothing to some users, but will be huge for others... depends on your workflow.

Rendering and Revision Management are big, long-awaited features of course.

I think the total package is definitely worthy of being the 30th anniversary release. 🙂
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JaredBanks
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The multi-edit is awesome. To me though the killer feature is the improved PDF control. Layer management of imported and exported PDFs makes them so much more useful. Our PDF sets sent out become that much better.

BUT BUT BUT

Exploding PDFs into vectors is going to be one of the most used features. Every cut sheet on the Internet is ours to use. No more searching for DWGs or .GSMs or whatever. Every product has PDF data. And most of that was created in autocad or some equivalent. So just drag, drop, explode, and do with it as you will. Need the right size for that elevator? Grab the cut sheet and drop it in. Explode and grab just the parts you want. Or if you can just turn off the layers and you're done. Window details from the manufacturer? Break metal? Joinery info? It's all there in PDF. We can now gobble it up and use it however we want. So rad.

Oh and things like QR codes? PDFs of those can be exploded into fills as well (if you've noticed the QR code in my Shoegnome Open Template http://www.shoegnome.com/template/, that's how it was done).

I think it's also important to focus on that quote in the beginning of the press release. This release (like future ones) will be about process and workflow improvement. A new stair would be great, but revisions, PDF control, integrated rendering, IFC/BCF improvements those are large scale process improvements that will change how we work more than us not having to do work arounds for geometric issues like stairs.
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bgoodale
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@ Jared,
what is the multi-edit function you are referring to?

also, @GS, the link for the 6 page brochure is not working....
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bgoodale
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also, @GS, the link for the 6 page brochure is not working....
scratch that, musta just been a chrome browser issue...
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JaredBanks
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the multi-edit.

Select say a fill, a roof, a slab, and a wall then add a node to all of them at the same time and move that node where ever. Things like that.
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