How is Archicad used within the design industry?

[Anonymous]

I am intrigued to find out if Archicad is used for applications other than Architecture and Interior Design within the design industry. I am a designer for a playground equipment manufacturer and use Archicad to design playgrounds, equipment and landscapes.

I have not yet come across anybody or any company who uses it as i do and was wondering if there is anybody out there who does?

[Laszlo Nagy]

About 12 years ago when I was working for Graphisoft as an employee (as opposed be being a freelance like now) we had a company in Sweden where the guys were designing cruise ships with ArchiCAD. One guy sent me one level of a ship once and the ship was more than 300 meters long. I guess they appreciate the Shell and Morph capabilities of the program nowadays.
I don't know about people using it for playground equipment design but knowing the capabilities of GDL and the modeling tools I think it is feasible.

I know at one time I was using GDL to graphically solve geometrical problems like there was a large triangle with lines within it dividing it into many smaller triangles and you had to figure out exactly how many different triangles were in it.

[Anonymous]

I used ArchiCAD at university when I studied interior design. I had to adapt the way I worked and used the program when I got a job in playground design. This took a bit of time to get used to but its definitely feasible as you can see from the end results.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Looks cool.

[Anonymous]

Interesting topic. I was wondering if Archicad would be any good as a cartographic mapping software. I suspect not.

[Anonymous]

Hi folks!

I did many semi-conductors plants for more than 20 years!

[Anonymous]

I have made the design of a 3d printer (gemez-bot) with archicad mainly.
www.garquitectos.es/index.php/gbot-impresora-reprap.html
garquitectos.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/nueva-seccion-en-nuestra-pagina-web-g-bot/
In the link you can view a render. I have a lot of more...
In my youtube channel I have some videos with the printer working... so I think that Archicad can be used for engineering design... but I think that there are better programs for this kind of work. Openscad have a language very similar to GDL.