It will also include support for 4K and retina displays. It includes some restructuring to show the most-used functions while relocating lesser-used ones and it features a new tab-based navigation system. Its fun new look is intended to bring a unified, up-to-date and professional style to the latest Mac and Windows OS releases. (Image courtesy of GRAPHISOFT.) Fresh-Faced: Updated User InterfaceĪRCHICAD 20 is designed to put a fresh new face forward and to do this, the software is designed to look more like a mobile app than a traditional desktop platform. The new release will also feature a two-point perspective tool, allowing users to switch from a 3D perspective to a two-point perspective from any camera angle.Ī look at the perspectives options in ARCHICAD 20. The latter is made possible with a new ray-tracing capability in the Physical Renderer.
These Favorites can also be organized into customized folder hierarchies for fast access and can be exported in binary or XML formats.ĪRCHICAD’s CineRender engine has gotten an update, which boasts more realistic surfaces, realistic contact shadows and reduced render times. This feature is intended to help BIM managers set up and enforce project templates and speed up everyday design development.Ī look at the Graphical Favorites menu, which can switch its thumbnails between 2D and 3D. See It in Technicolor: Graphical FavoritesĪ new Graphical Favorites feature saves element settings with automatically generated, color 2D or 3D thumbnails that users can assign to every tool. It also includes full support for BIM Collaboration Format and DXF/DWG roundtrip conversion and is fully compliant with COBie.Īs part of its new release, ARCHICAD 20 will have full support for IFC4. The software also promises to reduce the necessity of traditional supplementary 2D CAD work with a graphical override that lets users change the representation of any 2D and 3D views for elements with similar properties.ĪRCHICAD 20 also claims a spot as one of the first BIM applications to support the IFC 4 open-source standard, which includes new coordination workflows like Design Transfer View and Reference View. The software will also be able to import and export Excel data semi-automatically using a “Mass property value import” functionality, which reduces the risk of human error when entering consultants’ data. Users will be able to store all relevant project information within a BIM model, including data that wasn’t created in CAD or BIM tools-which is good news for those Excel spreadsheets. Show and Tell: Features for CollaborationĪRCHICAD 20 has all kinds of new goodies for collaborative workflows. So what are some of the new features that users can expect to see in ARCHICAD 20?
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