2014-05-06 03:44 PM
2014-05-06 10:12 PM
JaredBanks wrote:That's a bass ackwards approach to the program's improvement if you ask me.
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.
2014-05-06 10:36 PM
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2014-05-07 08:00 AM
KeesW wrote:It will keep track of your design changes if you treat them as a revision.
The revision feature will be very useful. Can it be used to control alternative design solutions at initial planning stages?
2014-05-07 09:34 AM
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2014-05-07 11:22 AM
Bricklyne wrote:Ironically your workflows were affected by the software you use so you judge them from the second hand perspective so to speak (you have learnt those workflows and did not develop them). I guess it is in the human nature to resist any novelties that comes back perhaps to the time when a cart pulled by a person was replaced by horse power, hey! I don't need a horse it works just fine, of cause it did but give it a go dear. Every AC release encompasses lots of brain power behind it so although your opinions are more than welcomed see it for your self first. Also as an architect I believe you are obliged to keep up with continuing professional development that almost every national professional institution requires as your mandatory obligation. Considering (and assuming) that AC is your primary tool you are investing to your own progress (referring to the brain power that GS R&D pored into this).
That's a bass ackwards approach to the program's improvement if you ask me.
If Graphisoft are investing so much time and development resources implementing changes that more concerned with workflow "improvement" and changing how we work (like with the Building materials in the last version), then all that means is that users are going o be forced to spend more time learning these new workflows (sometimes when the old ones worked just fine) ....
Bricklyne wrote:I believe Lightworks is considerably good rendering engine however C4D is definitely the top notch. The trick here is not the engine itself. It is the implementation that was regrettably rather mediocre with Lightworks. I think GS has learnt the lesson and spent some long hours on UI that is meant to be for architects (as opposed to viz artists). Creating a very decent output takes literary 2 clicks. But of cause you can switch to the expert mode and deal with a crazy lingo such as Ambient Occlusion, Caustics or Irradiance.
As for this version release, yes the Render engine upgrade are much welcomed after a long time with such a sub-standard engine (and if only for the upgrade of the material editor or material editing process , which would conceivably be useful to third-party add-on renderers as well), but because it was so long in coming, much of the user-base has pretty much moved on to the extent that you'll find even Cinema4D users prefer to user third-party renderers themselves (like Vray, Maxwell, Octane) to their own C4D program.
So to that degree it will not affect the workflow of most people anyway.
Bricklyne wrote:completely different cup of tea that should be discussed within its own topic.
Still haven't a clue what the whole BIMCloud thing was all about, but I suppose it's not that big a new feature if it's not being featured in these videos.
2014-05-07 12:04 PM
Dan wrote:Just want to add a +1 to this. It is certainly very common in the UK. How it is addressed I will leave to GS but it also needs to integrate with the energy evaluation.
currently there is no (easy) way to add say a new external insulation layer to an existing wall, which is a pretty common requirement now for retrofit / refurb. works.