Archicad 14 New Features

[Dennis Lee]

See what's on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archicad#g/c/5C1926DD91A70C7B

Personally, not much in it for me at all!

[fuzzytnth3]

Just my tuppence worth but the Quicklayers palette still disappears after quitting and starting up ArchiCAD. This is a long running annoyance albeit there is a workaround by making a Quicklayers toolbar but you would have thought by now they would have fixed it.

Also I take it the Goodies Add-ons like Roof to Mesh and Check Duplicates will be released shortly?

On the plus side starting AC and opening files is much quicker and the Library Report & Manager interface is much better

[Steve Jepson]

Have there been any improvements in units of measure? Can define our own? Is there a bigger selection of units to choose from? The enhanced operability with Excel files will probably make the upgrade worth it to me. I wish formulas in schedules were easier in ArchiCAD, but if I can get the data extracted in to Excel files I can incorporate the formulas there. Geometric object-based calculations can only get you so are with schedules. What we have always needed in ArchiCAD is some way to work formulas into the calculation process. We may not have this yet in ArchiCAD but I hope we will at least have a way to get what we need using Excel files.

[Laszlo Nagy]

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
Also I take it the Goodies Add-ons like Roof to Mesh and Check Duplicates will be released shortly?

They are here (no Roof to Mesh, only Mesh to Roof 😉😞

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/downloads/ac14/INT.html

I think the Goodies are nowadays always shipping with the version.

[Anonymous]

Let the Revit Guys improve & develop Revit.

Let the ArchiCAD guys improve & develop ArchiCAD.

Let the Freeformers improve & develop Freeform Software.

Let us choose what we will use, 1 some or all.

By the sum of all the info on this and other forums, we need all the help we can get.

So its good if all these high end Architectural programs can start interacting and build one giant complex BIM machine.

That way we will all be happy that we dont use the drawing board as much now.

[fuzzytnth3]

laszlonagy wrote:
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/downloads/ac14/INT.html
I think the Goodies are nowadays always shipping with the version.

I did have a look for them first in the AC14 folder plus the Add-ons folder but they weren't there. I failed to find the correct web page (thanks for the link btw) and where there used to be a command in the AC13's Help menu there isn't in AC14

[Laszlo Nagy]

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
...and where there used to be a command in the AC13's Help menu there isn't in AC14

Strange, I have the link:

Help\ArchiCAD 14 Downloads

[Anonymous]

laszlonagy wrote:

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
...and where there used to be a command in the AC13's Help menu there isn't in AC14

Strange, I have the link:

Help\ArchiCAD 14 Downloads

Maybe Fuzzy imported his work environment from AC13? Would this cause the links to the AC14 downloads to disappear perhaps?

Peter wrote:
- Better offset functionality seems to work well. It's much the same as before but with more options.

Actually, I'm really loving this! I didn't realise how much of a pain the old functionality was. Using the 'offset edge' function on an L shaped piece of wall actually works as you would expect - the ends don't increase in length any more! Hooray!

[Srinivas]

Actually, I'm really loving this! I didn't realise how much of a pain the old functionality was. Using the 'offset edge' function on an L shaped piece of wall actually works as you would expect - the ends don't increase in length any more! Hooray!

Peter,

Not sure if you already viewed this video on youtube about the offset tool in Archicad, just in case you haven't, you will love this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2cm1qoQvVo

[JaredBanks]

Srinivas,

great link. thanks.

[Anonymous]

Srinivas wrote:
Peter,

Not sure if you already viewed this video on youtube about the offset tool in Archicad, just in case you haven't, you will love this.

Thanks Srinivas, I knew about the various offset options in AC13. AC14 gives you a few more methods and techniques to play with now! And they seem to work properly too!