Simmons President ARCHVISTA The Graphisoft ArchiCAD Step by Step Tutorial was developed by ARCHVISTA and used with the ArchiCAD training course at the San Francisco Institute of Architects. 3 Contents 3ArchiCAD Step by Step Tutorial Contents ArchiCAD Holstebro byløb 2020 billeder by Step Tutorial About the Author Thomas M.What i'd like changed is faster response to the bug reports and faster hotfix releases.ĭevelop a product, launch it yearly, even with underwhelming features, but please fix it if its broken asap GS, or you've done all the previous steps for nothing. If we enjoy archicad we must give them our support. They have to come up with new stuff each year to keep that cash flow coming, you gotta see why that is happening. That buys you like 2 months of Revit then it's back to the drawing board.Ī company's main goal is to make money, and GS is no different. Has AC been buggy for me the past couple of years? OH YES! Have the new features added to the new versions been overwhelming? Not so much. But i start playing around with it when i have time to see the changes, and by the time the first hotfix pops i'm used to the new tools and workflows and am ready to make the switch. I never use the new version when it launches, cause GS is the new Apple, first release = unusable.
#Archicad 16 tutorial pdf upgrade
Just think of this: you can buy archicad and basically use it forever, OR pay a small yearly fee afterwards (its around 500 euros for me in Romania) for ArchiClub, or whatever that's called in your country, giving you extra support options AND a free upgrade to the next version when it launches, WITHOUT canceling your old license.
This whole discussion, while very spot on, is just a side of the story. Not to say that GS should go to that extreme route or time frame, but still, there is something to be admired about that level of consideration to your own product, and surely there's a more reasonable middle-ground. only even number upgrades or only odd number upgrades), but then what do you do when they release 2 disappointing versions in a row?Ĭontrast this with a company like McNeel who often take as many as 5-6 years (or more) between numbered upgrades of Rhino3D, (they do release service packs in the interregnum) and use that time to properly and extensively beta-test the next version to ensure to any new version is really worth the upgrade and not just a cosmetic update. It used to be that one would upgrade every other year or every other version (i.e. I know of lots of people who are still on ArchiCAD 18 because they argue that they've seen nothing in recent versions that would justify cost of upgrading to the latest versions. What we've seen from it is a succession of increasingly diluted updates that offer little more than cosmetic changes if for no other reason than to justify that number change (even if nothing has fundamentally changed in the program) all while the real issues rarely get addressed. I suspect it's also to keep up with the Joneses, by which I mean their rivals who have yearly updates too (to much the same level of chagrin and frustrations among their own customers) and to sustain the subscription model from whence I imagine they get a lot of revenue.
It's more a marketing and revenue mindset than a functional one that serves either customers or their own developers (who are forced to keep up with that pace and then have to pump out hotfix after hotfix to fix problems that were somehow not caught during the extensive Beta testing phase, or to fix problems created by previous hotfixes before them trying to fix other problems). Your suspicions as to why we have yearly upgrades instead of bi-annual (or even per every 18 months which used to be the original model when I started using ArchiCAD almost 20 years ago) are spot on. which is basically to say that this issue has been beaten to death (in the past, and as far back as 10 to 15 years now) and beyond now, hence the flogging a dead horse metaphor.Īnd which is also to say that GS don't seem responsive to this (yours) point of view or way of thinking. Woudn't it be better if upgrades were bi-annual giving everyone time to find and fix bugs before the products are released to their paying customers? Archicad add-ons such as Cadimage, have no AC21 versions of help and tutorial videos - theirs go back to version 18! I think that much of this is due to the annual upgrades to Archicad, driven, I suspect, by marketing, instead of customer, demand. They will presumably never get round to releasing a proper version because there is no point. I note that AC21's HELP is still a DRAFT version.
#Archicad 16 tutorial pdf update
Here we are again - yet a new update coming up while they haven't properly fixed the current version.