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davdelven · 2025-11-08

Well, after a decade as a customer, we're done. We bought our first perpetual licenses with Archicad 18 (back in 2014) and have been paying for FORWARD maintenance ever since. But that's over. Archicad 28 is our last stop. We simply cannot justify the new costs for AC29. For...

davdelven · 2025-07-09

Fellow Archicad professionals,The AI integration landscape is moving faster than anticipated, and we're at a crossroads that will define Archicad's relevance in the next 18 months.Current reality: While Revit users are already integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) with ad...

davdelven · 2025-02-26

Hi, all! After working extensively with both IFC mapping approaches in Archicad, I wanted to share my findings. The IFC Translator's Property Mapping excels at maintaining IFC schema compliance without cluttering our models. It's ideal for mapping to standard Psets and creat...

davdelven · 2025-02-25

I am requesting the ability to instantiate IfcSpatialZone when publishing using the MVD IFC4 Reference View from Graphisoft Archicad. The IfcSpatialZone class appears in the IFC Schema when setting up Property Mapping in the IFC Translator. However, there doesn't appear to b...

davdelven · 2025-02-24

Regarding this "already closed" thread from 2018 https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Base-Quantities-with-IFC-export/m-p/257261 , with a last comment by @stefan , I wanted to update the features from the IFC 4.0.2.1. schema version regarding IfcPile ...

davdelven · 2026-03-07

That should be a major issue when implementing IFC within the platform. What’s the point of setting up a mapping if you lose an essential layer of standardization in the process, specifically, the minimum set of quantities tied to what you’re semantically publishing? Is ther...

davdelven · 2025-11-10

Thanks for your supportive words. To be honest, I would keep paying if, regardless of the "cosmetic AI features" they've just added, they provided a business model that really fitted the many different ways in which "Architects" practise around the world nowadays. The romant...

davdelven · 2025-11-08

After a Decade, Why We're Not Moving to the New TiersWell, after a decade as a customer, we're done. We bought our first perpetual licenses with Archicad 18 (back in 2014) and have been paying for FORWARD maintenance ever since.But that's over. Archicad 28 is our last stop.W...

davdelven · 2025-07-16

And here there is the first attempt  https://github.com/SzamosiMate/tapir-archicad-MCP?tab=readme-ov-file by the Tapir community

davdelven · 2025-07-13

@Laszlo Nagy Hi!Yep, we know it. We have some discussions about it in Tapir addon community, too. But in my opinion, who should work on this topic, not just experiment, is Graphisoft itself rather than just the users "playing with it". This is a gamechanger that blows up any...

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Publish IFC using IfcSpatialZone class instance

Updating the info regarding "Base Quantities with IFC export"

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