!Restored: ¿News about AC 12?

[Anonymous]

Hi all!


¿Anybody knows anything about AC 12, please?


I'm hearing rumours, but nothing concrete...


Thanks a lot and regards.



P.S. Like another user says: "forgive my spanglish..."

[Anonymous]

TomWaltz wrote:
No, that's all of them. The only one they didn't mention is that PMKs are back.

This is then a very bad joke.
The software in certain parts is more than 10 years behind and they still ignore that?

Anyway... i will create a post with some questions for GS. I hope they will answer officially ( i know they wont) and at least for me it will be a criterion if i will continue to support the product or not. Enough of this comedy.

[Karl Ottenstein]

william235711 wrote:
How many cores are involved? How many processors? Is it for all tasks or just a limited number? Which ones?

As many as you have.

It is not for all tasks at the moment - no doubt more to come in the future, but is used for many of them and the speed increase is quite noticeable from starting ArchiCAD, to regenerating sections/elevations and opening the 3D window.

Karl

[Anonymous]

by the way, using openmp to create shared mutlicore aware functions is not hard at all.

I have to admit the curtain wall tool in the video look GREAT

[Anonymous]

From what I am aware of the "curtain wall tool" is almost a misnomer. It can be used to do tile floors, a raised computer floor, suspended ceiling tiles, can easily placed on a sloped surface such as a roof, make handrails, or even a tudor/timber framed wall.

As been discussed previously it really does blurs the line between wall, slab and roof elements.

Don Lee

[Anonymous]

To be fair (and i am not easy at my comments) this upgrade it the best (feature wise) since 8-8.1.

A question to those who know.
The Complex Components that are know 3d aware, can they be modified in 3d too? I mean, you have a finish layer can you modify its height independently from the walls height?

[Anonymous]

TomWaltz wrote:
How is Revit's performance on the larger projects? As bad as others claim?

Revit requires a lot of RAM. And you have to have a sense of how big your file is going to get so you can work out your file linking strategy. One trick we're pulling these days is to model the exterior in one file, and the interior in another. Whatever works. The bottom line is, 200-250Mb is the upper limit of what Revit and 4Gb of RAM on a 32-bit machine can handle. Depending on the project, this could be a 50-storey tower, or a smaller project with more complicated geometry in it.

Revit 2009 allows you to edit the lineweight of individual edges of objects of linked files, a long standing wish I have had.

So linking works -- but you're better to link whole buildings together rather than linking something that repeats, like a unit plan. Doors in a linked and copied unit plan in Revit cannot have unique door numbers. The doors will appear in the schedule as many times as they appear in the model, but they all have the same door number. So the concept of a MOD file is absent in Revit.

[Brett Brown]

Some questions answered of non advertised improvements please.(wouldn't it be good if GS publish a PDF of every little improvement they have done from AC 11)

Fill in Beams?

Fill in all instances of complex profiles?

HVAC?

Keynotes if any?

Label tool enhanced?

Revision tool?

Favorites holding there settings improved to where they actually do?

What happened to the pre advertised improvements to the indespencable grid tool?

Any improvement of roof slab dashed lines where they meet?(so they don't merge to a solid line)?

Can anyone explain clearer the dimension tool improvements. The very short movie is as clear as mud?

[Anonymous]

To beta testers or some-one with clue:

Talking about memory??? What is limit now; ArchiCAD or System?

[Dennis Lee]

I think one of the guys mentioned improved grid tools in the user videos. This is not one of the 12 new features of 12, so I think there must be small improvements here and there that they haven't announced.

My thoughts / questions on the "12" new features:

1. Speed - Great. I have a core 2 duo. Would it make sense to upgrade the processor to quad or 8 core?
2. Curtain Wall - Seems like a great new tool for much more than the curtainwall, and maybe the starting point of a whole host of other new things based on the "systems" concept.
3. Partial Structure Display - Don't really need it too much myself - since I typically only model structure anyway. Maybe this will get me to use the composite walls for a change...
4. Hotlink Module Management - Sounds like a good improvement.
5. Stairmaker Enhancements - I use Archistair so proabably not useful for me. Did it improve to a point where I don't need archistair?...
6. 3d Document - Great tool to finally show off the 3d in construction documents! Can't believe how many times I had to resort to a 2d view just to be able to get dimensions on them, and add a 3d view "for reference only" or color / material call outs at most.
7. Fill Enhancements - I guess good for SD work???
8. Nudge - Can't belive this made the list of the 12 features over grid tools. Who "nudges" columns?
9. Align & Distribute - I thought we already had align. Also, distribute was possible w/ the multiply command, wasn't it?
10. DWG 2008 import/export - I thought this should be almost a prerequisite - to be able to communicate w/ clients thru DWG.
11. Dimensioning Input Logic - Finally, logical way to do dimensions. Can't remember how many times I did a series of dimensions, double click, only to find out I had the vertical instead of horizontal...I hope there is the ability to put prefix or suffix to actual dimension..
12. PMK - I never used PMK before because I started in AC10. Would this be a good way to manage standard office details? Instead of making detail viewpoint, save view, copy detail name, set scale, layer combination for every single detail you want to re-use in a new project?


Overall, I would love to upgrade. 1,2,6, and maybe 12 could be pretty useful and justify the costs.

[Laura Yanoviak]

Dennis wrote:
I think one of the guys mentioned improved grid tools in the user videos. This is not one of the 12 new features of 12, so I think there must be small improvements here and there that they haven't announced.

The Grid Tool is now officially part of ArchiCAD, and is no longer a Goody. There have been improvements (most of which are getting rid of the known problems).