VENTING! Lack of ArchiCAD objects for US market!

[Anonymous]

So this is a venting post...
How come there are barely any manufacturer objects available for ArchiCAD in the US market? I read with excitement the BIMObjects announcement that Grohe now has it's products available (as we use their products often), only to find out that they're only available in Revit format! Why does Graphisoft so utterly neglect this very important part of product development - getting manufacturers on board to produce library objects? Every new announcement in this regard seems to be Revit related!

[Anonymous]

Just tell the suppliers you need their products in ArchCAD format or else you will select products that are, you will be surprised how quickly they will have the products available.
I have done this to a couple of suppliers with success.
Scott

[Erwin Edel]

sboydturner wrote:
Just tell the suppliers you need their products in ArchCAD format or else you will select products that are, you will be surprised how quickly they will have the products available.
I have done this to a couple of suppliers with success.
Scott

This is what I keep reminding companies that try to push their product on us too. NL is a small market, but we are getting stuff through bimobject.com slowly.

[Anonymous]

sboydturner wrote:
Just tell the suppliers you need their products in ArchCAD format or else you will select products that are, you will be surprised how quickly they will have the products available.
I have done this to a couple of suppliers with success.
Scott

Hey Scott, curious what suppliers you had success with, care to name names? Thanks in advance, Cary

[Anonymous]

marckleinmann wrote:
So this is a venting post...
How come there are barely any manufacturer objects available for ArchiCAD in the US market? I read with excitement the BIMObjects announcement that Grohe now has it's products available (as we use their products often), only to find out that they're only available in Revit format! Why does Graphisoft so utterly neglect this very important part of product development - getting manufacturers on board to produce library objects? Every new announcement in this regard seems to be Revit related!

Well stated!

[Anonymous]

Cary,
Caroma (http://specify.caroma.com.au/bim-library-landing/archicad) would be one where we asked for an Archicad library and the supplier has provided an excellent library that they are updating to incorporate all their product lines and related sub-brands.
The developer of the library (Cadswift) has also developed libraries and accessories for other manufacturers
Scott

[Stress Co_]

marckleinmann wrote:
So this is a venting post...

+1

sboydturner wrote:
Just tell the suppliers you need their products in ArchCAD format or else you will select products that are, you will be surprised how quickly they will have the products available.

Here's the response I got last week from Kohler:
"Thank you for contacting Kohler Co. I am glad to assist you with
your question. Currently we do not have Archicad files. Our CAD
team has looked at the program and plans to evaluate it further.
We do not have immediate plans to create these files; I am sorry."

On a positive note:
Sub-zero/Wolf now has GSM files of their products.
Sub-Zero/Wolf: CAD Libraries

[Richard Morrison]

sboydturner wrote:
Just tell the suppliers you need their products in ArchCAD format or else you will select products that are, you will be surprised how quickly they will have the products available.
I have done this to a couple of suppliers with success.
Scott

In the U.S., I suspect that the AC market share is so small compared to Revit that it is hard to make a good case for a manufacturer's investment. It is especially hard to make a case without any information at all regarding market share.

While I would love to have more native AC objects available, I suspect that we may be better off suggesting more universal FBX, OBJ, or even SKP files. This is obviously an area ripe for a talented AC object developer to sell their services to the manufacturers, and then create these libraries for them.

[Anonymous]

Richard wrote:

While I would love to have more native AC objects available, I suspect that we may be better off suggesting more universal FBX, OBJ, or even SKP files. This is obviously an area ripe for a talented AC object developer to sell their services to the manufacturers, and then create these libraries for them.

Agree with you here 100%, and also agree that if we have an easier way to create gsm content, there will be more talented developers to ripe that area.

[Anonymous]

sboydturner wrote:
Cary,
Caroma (http://specify.caroma.com.au/bim-library-landing/archicad) would be one where we asked for an Archicad library and the supplier has provided an excellent library that they are updating to incorporate all their product lines and related sub-brands.
The developer of the library (Cadswift) has also developed libraries and accessories for other manufacturers
Scott

Cool...wish we were so fortunate in the states. Thanks for sharing. Cheers