Not wanting to be left behind in the emerging generative and computational design market, Graphisoft entered the fray in the unlikeliest, yet smartest way, compared to its competition, and users of Archicad will not have to wait very long to see the design benefits. A few months after announcing that it was partnering with Robert …
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It has been nearly a year since we switched from Bentley BIM solutions to Archicad, and if the question is: was it worth it? The answer is absolutely yes. To what do we attribute that affirmative answer? Quite simply to an unquestionable increase in productivity and a renewed interest in practicing architecture and tackling our …
In previous blogs we made reference to BIM breakthrough, because we believe that is what BIM needs to get to the next level of its development journey. Archicad’s new building materials and priority-based connection (PBC) is an excellent example of what we mean by BIM breakthrough. It is a powerful tool that goes beyond simply …
In Part 1 of Who Is Driving BIM?, we explained how some BIM companies cater to large AEC giants with bundled BIM programs to do mega-projects and try to convince us that the bundling is the best direction for BIM. They use the all-catchy and -encompassing expression of “Sustainable Infrastructure” to justify their bundling strategy. …
The most striking transformation to the AEC landscape in the aftermath of the ’08 recession is the business consolidation that witnessed giant AEC firms swallow up their wounded and limping competitors and then spread their wings around the world, ready to offer AEC services to anyone anywhere with an infrastructure project. There has been so …
We, at SYLLA International, a modern design-oriented firm in Tampa, Florida, like to write about Building Information Modeling (BIM) in non-technical terms because of our history of using BIM-related technology, which predates BIM. About 18 years ago, when we started using a 3-D approach to designing our projects, it was not because we were enamored …
Old habits die hard, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) is just finding that out. Even though it has been on the AEC scene for about 10 years now (others will tell you even longer), it is still running into some resistance, slowing down its potential of changing the way we practice architecture. It is time …
For 18 years we have been using Bentley MicroStation and Bentley Architecture for our CAD and BIM programs but decided to switch to Graphisoft Archicad. This decision was not made lightly, because it meant throwing out of the window 18 years of experience and knowledge of Bentley programs with which we designed many buildings both large …