Yes in AC20 a template is now easier to produce with the improvements in the areas of favorites and library management. I think the drafting work can be speed up significantly with a more simple approach to drawing building elements. I also use Chief Architect for simpler housing projects. One important limitation is that the actual drafting work can take allot longer on simpler housing projects with ArchiCAD as I have found. Hence a greater need for BIM collaboration with the more consultants that a HR Co needs. For example since we have limited resources in comparison to a high rise company and we tend to do more of the working drawings ourselves or in house, as HR Co will out source many parts of the design work to collaborators etc. I think allot of things can be overlooked when looking from our perspective, ie ants eye view of program development than the birds eye view of the high rise commercial world. For example a LRR user may have need for Rhino and Grasshopper for extreme home design and they should be able to add that module on to a Start Version or more precisely a Solo Low Rise Residendial version, ie for Building Designers and the like. Each low rise residential user will have their own specific needs for program modules.
I don't need or use teamwork as a solo user. As I said before I prefer to have Cina Render included but I would also like some file exchanges formats that are currently not included. I am not a fan of the START version of ARCHICAD as there are too many missing parts of the program that I don't like.
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I would expect that these improvements would be automatically shared with a full commercial version.
I believe if we had a low rise residential branch for ArchiCAD development our workflow would increase. For me ArchiCAD was the best solution and still is. But Autodesk with Autocad was first and still is down under.
Thankfully ArchiCAD was being taught in the early 2000s and even now in some technical colleges in Australia. In the rest of the world (specifically, in Europe with Nemetschek's and Graphisoft's home base) I'd say it skews a little more towards ArchiCAD but that is rapidly changing since Autodesk has deep deep pockets to penetrate emerging markets and second and third world marketbases (read: Asia and Africa).Īnd it didn't have to be this way - certainly not where I am - since it wasn't that long ago when ArchiCAD used to be the only (BIM) game in town in most places.Įdit: I should add that you're probably not going to get any hard figures or numbers or otherwise since both companies keep a tight lip on their user numbers.īut based on certain metrics (for example Google job searches and program technical info searches, Job postings in general, courses offered at technical colleges and such) it's easy to deduce which way the current is primarily flowing in various locales.
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Like here in North America (Autodesk's home base) it tilts heavily in favor of Revit and Revit users thanks in large part to a relentless marketing campaign they've waged over the last decade and half and saturating the market (initially with free or bundled copies) of their product and then making it the standard. In which case it depends on where in the world you are.
It's become like watching the old tale of the Frog sitting in a saucepan with slowly boiling water as it sits quietly and boils to death, and there's nothing anyone can (or wants) to do about it.ĭoes anyone know of any rough figures or percentages ACAD vs REVIT users ?īy ACAD I Assume you mean ArchiCAD (and not AutoCAD). It just saddens me to see the way it's going - especially if you're one like those of us in a sea of Revit companies and users and constantly have to swim against the current.