ArchiCAD 18 announced

[Laszlo Nagy]

Find the official announcement and new features at:

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

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure an SSD HD will help our issue. It's the sluggishness in 3D and 2D viewing we are having problems with.

[Eduardo Rolon]

FWIW in my case running in a six year old Mac Pro AC18 is perfectly acceptable for rendering and regular Teamwork. No SSDs.

[Anonymous]

csparchitects wrote:
I'm not sure an SSD HD will help our issue. It's the sluggishness in 3D and 2D viewing we are having problems with.

Your graphic card that you own right now will always work better in 2d comparing it to any GTX card because it is optimized for that kind of work and that's info for Autocad.
Don't know is this true for archicad too because AC uses 3D openGL too...

I'm thinking to buy GTX 780, 3GB card
I need this one because this GC uses Cuda

CUDA™ is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. - See more at: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home_new.html#sthash.n4D8RVpP.dpuf

That's implement in many other software and i use some of them...
for rendering and some physics calculations , games, Bit-coin mining

If you buy Ati then you can't use computing software with Cuda computing.

This card will improve your 3D experience a lot !



SSD will speed up any data load in memory 4-5 time...Archicad load any data faster in memory so you work smoother...but rendering is done by CPU...
I always say to my friends that cheapest system speed up is switching from HDD to SSD,from any laptop to any desktop, general speed up

Cinema render is top score. Now it is possible to make fantastic renders in Archicad...



Cheers,

[Eduardo Bell]

For me I think one of the single best releases ever!
Some of my 4 favorite things:
Rendering quality to be proud of : check
Better materials management : check
Xplode PDF : check
Finally : a smart keynote object with many styles to choose from!

Happy user since 1994
Thank you GS!

[Stress Co_]

Eduardo wrote:
Finally : a smart keynote object with many styles to choose from!

Hi Eduardo:
Are you referring to something other than "Keynote Indicator_NCS 18"?

[Anonymous]

ejrolon wrote:
FWIW in my case running in a six year old Mac Pro AC18 is perfectly acceptable for rendering and regular Teamwork. No SSDs.

What are the size of jobs are you working on?

[Eduardo Rolon]

30,000 Sq.FT project is the biggest and the test file I use for the new versions, though that could be it, the others are in the 2,000 to 5,000 range.

[Eduardo Bell]

Stress wrote:

Eduardo wrote:
Finally : a smart keynote object with many styles to choose from!

Hi Eduardo:
Are you referring to something other than "Keynote Indicator_NCS 18"?

Hey Marc,

I'm referring to the multii-lablel leader 18. There is a lot to this little object, it has been there for a while I think, but I hadn't checked what looks like it's improved capabilities before.

Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

ejrolon wrote:
30,000 Sq.FT project is the biggest and the test file I use for the new versions, though that could be it, the others are in the 2,000 to 5,000 range.

Was this rendered using your Dual Quad machine with 18GB of RAM? If so it would explain why AC18 runs OK.

Our current project is 172,000ft² !! Even so, a tiny job took an age to process a CineRender 3D

[Eduardo Rolon]

Well, that explains it then. Anyway in my limited experience the best settings for Cinerender are Medium (never use Final) with Ambient Occlusion on and for the Sky use a HDRI map instead of Physical Sky.