2007-04-11 03:16 AM
(..) ArchiCAD will not be a fully multi-threaded application at any time soon. This is partly because re-writing the ArchiCAD code to support multi-threading is a huge task, and there are areas where it would not cause a dramatic performance increase. Graphisoft will focus on the areas where multi-threading brings the most benefit.thus you don't need octocore (or even quadro) mac pro "at any time soon", because it's a big job for them. (if i think that ac on 8 cores would use 1/8 of the resources available- ).
Transferring a 32-bit application to 64-bit requires reprogramming even the most basic functions in the software, therefore the change to 64-bit in business softwares will happen at a much slower pace than the rapid change from 32-bit processors to 64-bit processors in the Personal Computer (PC) industry.so mainly they are basing the answer once again on excuse, that it requres recoding ac + on a bad market practise "aww, the other business software developers are also slow on this". sorry, but that doesn't apply to other apps i use, ie, c4d, maxwell. yes, they are a different profile, but- whatever harware resources i give them- it's been effectivelly used. and that's the reason they REALLY are top software solutions. and the argument that archicad has 100x more lines of code can't be an argument.
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Dennis wrote:there used to be 'the graphisoft prize' a competition in visualising conceptual spaces. things like the 'Church of Reason', 'Hotel California', 'The Ministry of Truth', etc.. basically they gave a short list of 'places' from contemporary cultural references and you could choose which one to develop. anyone could enter - individuals, teams, students, whatever.. it was excellent and such a shame they stopped it . . .
I think a possible way to get students into AC would be to have a competition "Model your architecture department building in AC (w/ floor plans, section perspectives, renderings, etc)", have a gallery in the GS webpage, and award some money to the winning students - maybe one winning school per state or something like that...
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william235711 wrote:Up here in Canada, Mac started in 1992 by giving our faculty of architecture all the hardware we needed to run MiniCAD (now Vectorworks). I can't say how many other schools they offered their hardware too, but I can honestly say, a few firms back then started and stayed with Vectorworks throughout the years.
I think that the we don't realize how important it is to break the Autodesk monopoly that exists in schools here in the USA. Otherwise, Archicad will find themselves even more marginalized then they are today.