Hello
Maybe this post will be censored. I apologize if I unveiled suspense but I will not write what you will find in the future version, just more certainly what you will not find in ! This is what we know from France after an indiscretion (error) of the Graphisoft german site and the link was quickly removed, but to late.
What irritates me is that very simple actions to do, have not been developed by Graphisoft, later maybe ? Always in my opinion, beyond improved calculation views , little writing computer code was necessary for really increase the productivity of drawings, and increase the efficiency of software for many users
Here are some examples of little things that make us happy and correspond to our needs if some existing tools were consolidated (may be these needs are not yours ? )...
What we know is te fact that you have very little chance to acquire the following features in AC V19:
_ Having the texts of zones displayed in sections views. What a waste of time to copy texts from the plan view to the cuts view ( without counting the risk of error and it's stupid because this information already exists see
http://simpleaddon.com/Eng/zn_product.html )
_ Having flags (existing, demolish, construct) in composites and complexe profiles themselves (I am not sure on this specific subject, here we can be surprise but without any certainty)
_ Having dynamic links to control variables IFC (http, etc.)
_ Align, put, rotate vectorial hatching textures of materials in sections and/or elevations views.( In 3D view it's painful )
_ Having the section and elevation marks that could display in 3D (such as grids elements) and especially automatically in elevations and/or cuts views.
For heavy developments, we understand that you'll never see on the update AC v19: *
_ A new stairmaker ( no hope for this release, sorry for muril00ng and TAI, personally we wait for more than 15 years now ! )
_ An Excel import into the shedule nor the 3 missing elementary arithmetic operations
_ Windows and doors in the shell
_ Morph along a path with magic wand ( painful to click all the point and the first one must be normal to the face !)
_ Repetitive elements in the plane perpendicular into the complex profile editor ( the way for 3D handrails and guardrails generator ) and plugs to their end if they are free
_ A convivial GDL interface for windows, doors and other parametrics objects, as for Revit families
_More flexibility with the curtain walls editing in plan view
Our teams and I greatly appreciate Archicad, but we are worried because if we can understand that we can never know in advance the content of the innovations in a new version, we would at least be informed of the evolution and development of existing tools.
On this point, Graphisoft has much work to do just to reassure its customers.
( we have more 20 licenses !)
We stay Zen, still hope to be pleasantly surprised, we look forward to the final version
Good week
