This is all part of a major rejuvenation effort by the development team.Ī new phrase that comes with this release is the ‘Graphisoft Ecosystem’, which is a definition of how the company’s product offerings are changing. While available on Apple MacOS and Windows (the first Windows version was released in 1993), this latest version will be the first version reworked to make the most out of Apple’s new CPU design and flavour of operating system, apparently giving significant speed boosts. Lukacs and Vikar Architects, Hungary Talking of product development velocity, despite Archicad’s apparent age (Graphisoft started in 1982), the code base has been constantly evolving and, in more recent years, the company has taken to completely rewriting core tools and carrying out large ports to new operating systems. Microsoft Office Complex in Graphisoft Park, Budapest Maybe it’s new name should be ‘Not just Archicad’! Archicad 26 includes accurate building lifecycle analysis and sustainability tools.
One could argue that Architecture is the foundation design-to-detail phase, upon which all other tasks rely. The only issue that belies all this work is probably the name of Graphisoft’s software, as ‘Archi’ is ever more a misleading pigeonhole. All the while, its main competitor – Autodesk Revit – despite some renewed development work, looks moribund. The pace of this development and convergence seems to be accelerating. From now on, Archicad competes as a single building model tool, which can handle all core AEC design activities – Architecture and MEP – under its own brand, then through Nemetschek’s other brands for structural (Scia, Risa, Frilo). This is a significant moment for Graphisoft. This means Archicad will become multi-discipline and more of a feature-for-feature competitor to Autodesk Revit.
Nemetschek had seemed to be holding out – until this year that is, when it decided to take its DDScad MEP product and fold it into the Graphisoft company. In the industry this went against the standard flow, with others integrating into suites or single solutions. Unlike other AEC software firms, it has always tended to keep its brands as separate units, each with their own CEO, promoting each solution. Nemetschek, which is the parent company of Graphisoft, owns many construction-related brands – Solibri, Allplan and Bluebeam to name but a few. Offering a stack of user-requested updates, the platform continues to lay the groundwork for multi-disciplinary capabilities with structural tools and DDScad for MEP This summer Graphisoft released Archicad 26 a brand new release of its flagship BIM tool.
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