As a result, renovation and refurbishment projects are nearly equal to the volume of new buildings in most of the developed areas of the world. The advent of modern technology has significantly increased the life-cycle of a building. ArchiCAD 15 introduces 3D guidelines and editing planes to revolutionize the 3D space definition, making the perspective view the natural, 3D environment for building design. The increase in freedom brought about by the third dimension, however, adds a new degree of difficulty to orientation in space as well. During the course of the past few decades, architects have gradually left the “flat-lands” of 2D sketching for the exciting “high-lands” of designing in 3D virtual spaces.
The evolution of the design process has gone through at least as many revolutionary steps as the forms and structures themselves. The general features in ArchiCAD 15 include an impressive list of new and refined design tools and workflows, but also improvements to its IFC interface and OPEN collaboration workflow with engineers, full 64-bit support for the Mac OS, and improvements to its parametric object libraries as well. The new version also expands the scope of the BIM workflow to include renovation & refurbishment projects. “In addition to reinventing the 3D design space and providing architects with a wide array of new design tools, ArchiCAD 15 also addresses the increasing number of architects who earn their living from renovation and refurbishment projects,” he continued.ĪrchiCAD 15 enriches architectural forms available for designers to unleash their creative minds. “ArchiCAD 15 addresses architects in their native language with an innovative approach to handling design spaces and forms,” said Miklos Szovenyi-Lux, vice president of product management, GRAPHISOFT. As always some prayers have been answered, yet some people have been disappointed that their requests have not been heard, but as Jared describes in his blogpost " I upgrade, you upgrade, we all upgrade" on the Shoegnome blog, ya can't make everyone happy, but I gotta say I’m thrilled :) It is considered to be one of the strongest upgrades since version 10. The new version brings many new features that ArchiCAD users have been requesting to improve their design workflow.
"Broaden Your DESIGN Horizons!" is the phrase of the month, as ArchiCAD 15 was announced last week and there've been some eager beavers (myself included) to see if all the rumours are true, together with our hopes and dreams wrapped up in a nice little installation package! Well, they haven't let us down.
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