Ok. I agree with a lot on here, but a lot of it simply is and has been outsourced (I.E. rendering engines like C4D/Vray/Maxwell; 3d detailing via 3dsMax, C4D, etc; Parts creation via the same... etc., etc.) -which makes sense with the current economy...
However, if there is ONE CHANGE we REALLY MUST HAVE in this economy, it's fast scheduling that is more intuitive and makes sense
1) Fast and easy schedules organized in logic for clients, not architects. Clients want to see a change, and the volumes effected and a cost relationship. ANY APP that can do that in real time with a little set up will KEEP the architects/designers who USE IT, in business in the current penny-pinching economy. AND that will keep customers upgrading and coming BACK to Graphisoft (which might be critical to avoid layoffs this year and next).... (Yes that means you possibly, or your boss, or employee/team)
We need to be able to link elements via their layers to schedules, in ways we can turn off en-mass (I.E. hide a layer) to show volumes-shown. We need a field that runs off an excel-formed table INSIDE ArchiCAD that shows the real-time changes for client meetings. This will save days of labor on so many kinds of jobs for architects (who might be resorting to 2nd jobs soon).
We need at the LEAST, schedules that we can update and import INTO external apps like Excel in less than a few minutes, without taking a week long course.
We need flexible labeling systems that itemizes out TO THE SCHEDULES. So clients can SEE what each change or renovation or design issue is costing them (and we need this not as "elements" exactly, nor GSM parts- too time consuming to set up)...
AC needs to cater to the desperate pocketbooks of people who will need the next version that includes something like this so we can keep clients. Real-time and flexible schedules will affect ALL of us, from shed-designers to high-rise commercial giants to undersea-petroleum exploration designers. It will also KILL the competition.
We can always get to the 3d and modeling stuff with Gmax (free) or an open source modeling app (free); we can always fix fly-by's and visualization stuff with a discount off something like C4D or Maya (student version anyone?) or 3dsMax (which is as easy to use as ArchiCAD by the way, once you understand planes and extruding faces and figure out how to twist and turn and navigate in 3d- by the way, EVEN IN SUCH SERIOUS SOFTWARE they still have huge navigation issues with the 3d windows, so those of you who want design -interface chances in 3d navigation (I.E. real-elevation gravitation for walk-thru's).. well, even the giants have a hard time doing it, so AC isn't going to do it anytime soon- and 3dsMax does have this so simply import your models as *.3ds and render a fly-by or the model into a *.map or *.bsp and open it with a "game-mode" bsp-map viewer and "walk around" in it...
Schedules however, are in the end, after the design work is done, the service that clients will MOST NEED from architects. With creative builders, architects could become obsolete from everything except big commercial and tech jobs. Taking something visual and showing what will cost what, and sum totals as we go, quickly and efficiently, will draw a line in the sand on who remains an architect and who becomes a drafter or street chalk artist with a hat out for change.
So that's my 1st wish for AC.
Least if I upgrade- which might depend on my street-singing skills here in East Europe, and back in the USA.
(I've got the guitar out and I'm tuning it as we speak-LOL!)
However, if there is ONE CHANGE we REALLY MUST HAVE in this economy, it's fast scheduling that is more intuitive and makes sense
1) Fast and easy schedules organized in logic for clients, not architects. Clients want to see a change, and the volumes effected and a cost relationship. ANY APP that can do that in real time with a little set up will KEEP the architects/designers who USE IT, in business in the current penny-pinching economy. AND that will keep customers upgrading and coming BACK to Graphisoft (which might be critical to avoid layoffs this year and next).... (Yes that means you possibly, or your boss, or employee/team)
We need to be able to link elements via their layers to schedules, in ways we can turn off en-mass (I.E. hide a layer) to show volumes-shown. We need a field that runs off an excel-formed table INSIDE ArchiCAD that shows the real-time changes for client meetings. This will save days of labor on so many kinds of jobs for architects (who might be resorting to 2nd jobs soon).
We need at the LEAST, schedules that we can update and import INTO external apps like Excel in less than a few minutes, without taking a week long course.
We need flexible labeling systems that itemizes out TO THE SCHEDULES. So clients can SEE what each change or renovation or design issue is costing them (and we need this not as "elements" exactly, nor GSM parts- too time consuming to set up)...
AC needs to cater to the desperate pocketbooks of people who will need the next version that includes something like this so we can keep clients. Real-time and flexible schedules will affect ALL of us, from shed-designers to high-rise commercial giants to undersea-petroleum exploration designers. It will also KILL the competition.
We can always get to the 3d and modeling stuff with Gmax (free) or an open source modeling app (free); we can always fix fly-by's and visualization stuff with a discount off something like C4D or Maya (student version anyone?) or 3dsMax (which is as easy to use as ArchiCAD by the way, once you understand planes and extruding faces and figure out how to twist and turn and navigate in 3d- by the way, EVEN IN SUCH SERIOUS SOFTWARE they still have huge navigation issues with the 3d windows, so those of you who want design -interface chances in 3d navigation (I.E. real-elevation gravitation for walk-thru's).. well, even the giants have a hard time doing it, so AC isn't going to do it anytime soon- and 3dsMax does have this so simply import your models as *.3ds and render a fly-by or the model into a *.map or *.bsp and open it with a "game-mode" bsp-map viewer and "walk around" in it...
Schedules however, are in the end, after the design work is done, the service that clients will MOST NEED from architects. With creative builders, architects could become obsolete from everything except big commercial and tech jobs. Taking something visual and showing what will cost what, and sum totals as we go, quickly and efficiently, will draw a line in the sand on who remains an architect and who becomes a drafter or street chalk artist with a hat out for change.
So that's my 1st wish for AC.
Least if I upgrade- which might depend on my street-singing skills here in East Europe, and back in the USA.
(I've got the guitar out and I'm tuning it as we speak-LOL!)
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