Good Upgrade

[Anonymous]

Teamwork 2 - I'm a one man shop but know people I trust to hire on a job by job basis that I can manage from my office- Great
Oriented Views - good
Annotated Schedule Drawings - good!
Improved Object Handling - good
Intelligent “Soft” Insulation - good
DWG Enhancements - good
Data Exchange with Engineers - good
Improvements for Slabs/Roofs - Great!!!
Improved Curtain Wall Editing - Great!!
64-bit Support for Windows - Looking forward to mac 64 bit

Also looking forward to more improvements due to database restructuring. All in all looks like a good upgrade for me.

[Anonymous]

LINZ wrote:

OK, so you grade the new features, but you fail to mention any must-haves that GS forgot about. Does that mean you're happy with AC 12? I'm curious about the features that the 'small fish' needed but haven't received. Are there any stand-outs?

Posted and posted them again and again (starting from the worst part of AC, the material manager and going to layers and how to manage them.. to favorites and two way assosiation, to quantity calculations which has not been worked for years now... too hundreds of stuff written again and again in vain). But i stopped doing long ago. It does not matter. They dont give a damn what users want. Just big firms. Fine. Anyway i will ask from the local provider a refund (which ofcourse i wont get) and cancel they AC14 subscription.

There have been bad updated before. But this is stealling in cold blood.

[Anonymous]

Oops, and what about AC13 library content : any additional doors and windows parameters, maybe objects included?! As far as I can think, Annotated (interactive) Schedule Drawings can only be useful once you have correct door and window representation = modeling freedom. If not I will continue 2D for this...

[Anonymous]

I thought I'd heard a rumor about easier access to calculation rules?
I'm assuming that would make it easier to do material take offs?
Something about doing more calculations right in AC?
But did not see it in movie clips.
Anybody else seen or heard something along these lines?
lec

[Anonymous]

I am a one man office and though there were things I would have like to have seen implemented, but not, I think this is a good move and don't really feel ripped off at all.
If Graphisoft can increase its user base from these new features then it can only mean better things for the future. No software is perfect but I am a big fan of archicad and will keep using it.
Its just nice to see the ship moving forward again instead of sinking.

[aahatimo]

Joeri wrote:
Oops, and what about AC13 library content : any additional doors and windows parameters, maybe objects included?! As far as I can think, Annotated (interactive) Schedule Drawings can only be useful once you have correct door and window representation = modeling freedom. If not I will continue 2D for this...

so has the v13 library been updated?
not sure it ever quite made it w/ v12. but then i could have missed something...
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=143000&highlight=#143000
also no 64 for macs?
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=143000&highlight=#143000

[Anonymous]

Danj wrote:
... I am a big fan of archicad and will keep using it.
....

Same here. AC11.

In an effort to curb needless spending we terminated our Archicad Select subscription after receiving AC12, which is still in the box. Haven't had the need to upgrade to 12, and our hardware is getting on a bit so huge expense required to make it worthwhile.

No doubt when we do finally upgrade to a version worth getting we will be stung for (almost) full value rather than upgrade, and therefore not save much anyway in the long run.

Rock - - Hard Place.

[Karl Frost]

Stuart - you're def right about the rock- hard place bit. I see that your signature says "PowerPC" and if you have not yet checked AC13 runs on Intel Macs only.
"Got your chequebook, Vernon?"

[andrewzarb]

If you can foresee yourself upgrading at any time in the future it makes no sense to not upgrade to each version because when you eventually upgrade, you get slugged for the cost of every upgrade you missed without ever having benefitted. (B.O.H.I.C.)

[Anonymous]

Well I can’t see ArchiCAD 13 on my Christmas wish list this year as I’m not overly impressed with the new features its offering.
Ok 64bit and TW2 seem impressive as these needed to be addressed to keep Archicad competitive in the market place.
But really the other features feel like padding and only worthy of a status of ArchiCAD V12.3
And to see GS still riding the curtain wall horse is a cheap marketing plug. The added editing features should have been a hotfix. There are many more important issues at hand that need fixing. The whole tool box needs a work over- Mesh tool for example. All the design tools need to be able more flexible, They are 2d like and rigid, this is a 3d program that needs to be able to act like a 3d program and be more fluid and match what is happening out in the real world that’s being built. At the Moment I can’t image modelling or documenting some of Zaha Hadids buildings in ArchiCAD with no add-ons/plug-ins or advanced GDL knowledge.
So maybe, just maybe, GS have a look at the wish lists on this forum and start incorporating these wishes otherwise your client list is going to shrink as will your profits.

[Anonymous]

Most of their updates is things we wanted here in the community, slab egde and roof edge are one big wish and TW2 too. And also rotated workspace and dimensions on schedules, so I'm not sure what you are complaining about? All the features are wishes from us. Most of the features would help our daily work in our office alot.

For example, now you could draw a window in your planview, save it as an windowobject that are imbedded in your projectfile. Could it be much better?