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Datasmith ETA?

Patrick M
Advisor

Does anyone have any info on the ETA for Datasmith? I've checked their forum, they have the question up for the past 2+ months with no response. Anyone have an inside scoop?
Twinmotion has become an instrumental part of one of my clients workflows, but we are always hung up on moving into the latest AC, sometimes by several months, due to their lack of response and effective roll out of the plug-in.

(I do want to note, that yes, I am aware of alternative workflows: saving to FBX or SKP. Howerver, these formats always result in incorrect texture mapping and major shifts in project origin relationship that have us spending about as long as it takes to get the datasmith release to get back on track... so it's a non-starter).
I really want to move one of their projects into 28 to utilize the keynote features, but document efficiencies balanced against rendering inefficiencies is a hard sell every year!
If anyone at GS reading this has any influence with them, can we get a better turn-over on their plug-in?

BIM solutions and trouble shooting (self proclaimed) expert. Using Archicad 26 5002 US on Mac OS 11.5.2
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Patrick M
Advisor

Bump; anyone have any insight into this? epic games/datasmith seems to always hold up my clients, and they never seem to give a clear delivery date on their plug-in

 

BIM solutions and trouble shooting (self proclaimed) expert. Using Archicad 26 5002 US on Mac OS 11.5.2

I got the news, that the new plugin that works with the new engine and Archicad 28 may arrive in the first two months of 2025.

Illés Papp
GRAPHISOFT Senior Product Manager

Is there a reason why there's such a lag every time? What can be done to get you all to work with each other in a better way? Is this simply a case of Epic being their usual oblivious selves? Evidence that they're eventually dropping support? 

This lag every. single. year. is frustrating when we were promised a such fluid connection that was the result of a partnership between these two companies. 

Principal/Owner // Lane Williams Architects