andrewzarb wrote:
Of course it's possible, unless you,ve used slanted walls, slanted columns, beams which are pitched, openings in polygonal walls... what else is new in ten?
The advances in artlantis are great but not a an issue to whether ArchiCAD CAN save to 4.5 which it should considering that it can save to so many other formats.
The question is whether Abvent or Graphisoft indipendently or colaboratively have decided not to support 4.5, which obviously only helps Abvent and could be seen as a dirty trade practice.
For me, this issue (the inability to save to Artlantis 4.5) came when I was in a hurry. Fortunately I had not used any exclusive feature of Arch10 in that project, but I did use Arch10 library parts, which I had to replace once in Arch9.
I had been tired of being edged out by those who use Autodesk VIZ instead of Artlantis 4.5 (I did not upgrade to Artlantis R because most of my work is making 3D Walk-throughs... Artlantis Studio came too late), and so this was the drop that filled the glass and I finally decided to switch to VIZ.
The learning curve was steep, but after a couple of months I'm quite happy with it. Not only I am able to cleanly import from ArchiCAD-produced 3ds files thanks to a free MAXscript I found on the web (which has a nice material replacer utility), but I am now also able to use the great RPCs by Archvision, which my competitors had been using for years... and I can take now advantage of the really huge MAX/VIZ user base out there... which has produced tons of tutorials, materials, objects, etc, most of them for free.
So long, Art-lantis... you were really useful in the past, and I really, really wish VIZ was as easy to use... But as they say, no pain, no gain.
By the way, during the years that I used Artlantis I created a lot of billboards... I made a selection of the best and now they are for sale at Turbosquid for a very low price. Just search for "artlantis" in Turbosquid's search box.
