ArchiCAD 18 announced

[Laszlo Nagy]

Find the official announcement and new features at:

http://www.graphisoft.com/archicad/archicad-18/overview/

[Laszlo Nagy]

OK, I see, thanks for the info.

[stefanc]

Hi Karl,

Perhaps you might have some insight. Still trying to figure out why I have not gotten an email -- checked my spam folder (even rooted around on my server directly - my email and domain name are on my own server...). No email/instructions. Signed into my ArchiPlus account with my user number and password no help there at all - double checked my yearly payment went through in May and it did...

Is it available through the myarchicad site, or is it something different? My - myarchicad - is still showing 17. I have sent an email off to the reseller that showed up in the Graphisoft site by putting in my zip code - he is an entirely different person from the person listed in my ArchiPlus statement from May, and again different from my reseller when 17 shipped.

Confused here, and perhaps wondering if somehow I got Graphisoft confused as well...

Cheers,

Stefan

Karl wrote:
Yes, all downloads for 18 are available to USA ArchiPlus subscribers (SSA - whatever SSA means).. AC, BS, MEP, Goodies, etc. on an official distribution page. Build 3006.

As Eduardo said... the announcement email may be in the junk/spam folder for some people. Mine actually ended up there, too.

The official word is the INT and GER have been ready for a couple of days - up to the distributors in those countries (OK, INT is not a country!) to make them available.

[Karl Ottenstein]

You may need to phone GSUS in Boston on Monday. I sent you a PM.

Like you, I find it strange that we have logins for ArchiPlus and yet links like this download do not appear there. Ditto myarchicad.com

[stefanc]

Thanks Karl,

I have two emails off to two of my resellers as noted below. Yes the system for all this seems a bit kludgy! It would only make sense for our ArchiPlus log-in to get us to something besides some generic information -- a post for a different topic though!

THANKS again

Stefan

Karl wrote:
You may need to phone GSUS in Boston on Monday. I sent you a PM.

Like you, I find it strange that we have logins for ArchiPlus and yet links like this download do not appear there. Ditto myarchicad.com

[Stress Co_]

Karl wrote:
(SSA - whatever SSA means)

Software Service Agreement.
... and it wasn't in my spam folder.
Download/key update worked with no problems.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Graphisoft today announced the release of ArchiCAD and BIMCloud:

http://www.graphisoft.com/info/news/press_releases/graphisoft-releases-archicad-18-introduces-bimclo...

[Anonymous]

I've just been rendering a small AC model using CineRender - We're gonna need some new hardware!!

[Anonymous]

csparchitects wrote:
I've just been rendering a small AC model using CineRender - We're gonna need some new hardware!!

don't know what to say on this one....

AC didn't have right rendering tool since its beginnings ...now it has but ones again its too slow...
Future is GPU based rendering software...Why...because its MUCH faster... graphic card has more processors and they use parallel computing...
You will be able to render on internet farms for 1$ per GPU per hour...
So your rendering, animations etc can be finished in no time,for very very small price,in highest quality and biggest sizes. You can't buy enough CPU to compete with GPU....your race is over on start....

CPU based render engines are part of history....I have Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz 12MB L2 and that procesor can't compete with gtx 460.
I use gtx 460 which has 336 cuda cores....its old graph.card now....
I plan to buy now gtx 780 which has 2304 CUDA cores.
It will give me the speedup up to 4-5 X and it will cost around 400$...If i wait more i will pay less...Renderings are done in realtime preview...

I used for a long period GPU render engine and i'm very satisfied and for sure im not going back....My 4 core processor will never be able to compete with 336 core GPU or 2304 core on GTX780 or if i buy 2 gtx 780 i will have 4608 cores with 3 or 6 GB per GPU...You can't beat that...

Only if you have more computers connected via network....then it can be pleasable

If Cinema render moves to GPU rendering, then it will be other story....

Speed maters !

[Anonymous]

We are looking at buying new graphics cards, not necessarily for the CineRender, but generally to speed up ArchiCAD.

I assume a decent graphics card won't speed up CineRender then?

[Anonymous]

csparchitects wrote:
We are looking at buying new graphics cards, not necessarily for the CineRender, but generally to speed up ArchiCAD.

I assume a decent graphics card won't speed up CineRender then?

That's right !

CineRender uses CPU cores...CPU calculations...

If you want to speed up your comp try installing SSD.
It will speed up your complete system...if you have 7200 RPM HDD...

I calculated time,when i turn on my comp, wait for system to load, then i start photoshop, archicad...then close this programs and shut down computer, before and after instaling SSD

Doing this for 1 year i get 9 days more of my lost time on waiting for system and programs to load up....
because my computer with SSD works much much faster....

Now i enjoy more free time loosing it on web