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GRAPHISOFT Releases Feature Upgrade to BIMx Mobile

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BUDAPEST, March 18, 2013 – GRAPHISOFT announced today updates to BIMx mobile for iOS and Android devices, with the latest innovations for its cutting-edge communication and presentation tool for BIM projects.

The latest version of BIMx includes important bug fixes and new features such as:

  • Real-time 3D Cutaway function;
  • Improved rendering technology;
  • Increased performance.

With the real-time 3D Cutaway function, users can dynamically cut the BIMx model with a horizontal cutting plane. This offers a floor plan-like overview of the entire model allowing users to locate internal model parts that may be hard to find using the explore method.  3D Cutaway provides an easy-to-understand view for non-professional viewers.

The new rendering engine provides a shorter model loading time and a significantly better user experience during model navigation as a result of an increased FPS (frame per second) rate.  This results in two to three times faster on average loading time and less memory use, allowing larger models to be opened.

About BIMx

BIMx is an interactive environment that allows users to explore full BIM models without holding a license of the professional authoring software in which the building model was originally created.  With BIMx, ArchiCAD users have been able to publish self-running BIMx models for their clients to run on desktop computers (Win/Mac), as well as on iOS and Android devices putting BIM into the hands of all stakeholders not actively involved in the actual creation of the BIM model such as contractors, builders, clients, owners, and principals of design practices.

About GRAPHISOFT

GRAPHISOFT ignited the BIM revolution with ArchiCAD, the industry first BIM software for architects. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as the revolutionary GRAPHISOFT BIM Server™, the world’s first real-time BIM collaboration environment and GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner™, the world’s first fully-integrated building energy modeling application that have fundamentally changed how architects worldwide design and collaborate today. Since its 2007 acquisition, GRAPHISOFT has been part of the Nemetschek Group.

Modular Joinery Object

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Modular Joinery Object (MJO) for ArchiCAD 16, is now available to all users on Software Subscription Agreement (SSA). To download it launch ArchiCAD 16, open up the “Door/ Window Default Settings”, and search for ‘modular’ with the option “On BIM Components Portal” or “Both” selected. Then select the Modular Door/ Window object and click on the button “Download and Embed” at the bottom. Please note: You need to do this in both “Window Default Settings” and “Door Default Settings”.

Thanks to our partners at GRAPHISOFT UK, who commissioned Ralph Wessel of Encina Ltd. to create a window/door/panel/storefront/curtain wall GDL object, called Modular Joinery, for kindly making it available for Southern Africa users on SSA contract. Special thanks go to Simon Gilbert from GRAPHISOFT UK, who assisted me with this process, and of course Levente Filetóth and his team at GRAPHISOFT HQ.

MJO allows for amazing complexity and unifies both window and door options into one Object. MJO for ArchiCAD 16 also includes an update. This update has now been extended to incorporate typical uPVC and timber profiles along with improved representations enabling the objects to be used in conjunction with the default library of doors and windows in ArchiCAD. Download the “Modular Joinery update.pdf” for more details.

Modular Joinery update

Download the “Modular Joinery Manual. pdf” for help with using MJO.

Modular Joinery Manual

For a “quick guide” to using MJO please refer to the following two images:

Wish upon an object

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ceiling editorGRAPHISOFT have started a series called: ”Wish upon an object“. You may check the first results showing how powerful GDL is at these links.

… an extract from Architalk: “…Dear Archi-Talkers,

I guess I am preaching to the choir when saying that GDL is one of the core assets of ArchiCAD. To provide support for great GDL content to get created we launched BIMcomponents.com with ArchiCAD 16. In order to give some boost to the interest for the topic we decided to help deliver some long wished GDL objects that no-one has created as of yet.

Here we call upon a little contest: share your wish for an object that you cannot find in the standard ArchiCAD library and we will see to it that some of them get programmed and shared with all of you through the BIMcomponents.com portal…”

See the full thread on Architalk here.

The initiative is part of the BIMcomponents.com portal launched with ArchiCAD 16.

GRAPHISOFT and BIMobject Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement

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MUNICH, January 16, 2013 – Leading BIM technology providers GRAPHISOFT® and BIMobject® announced today at BAU 2013 that they have signed a strategic partnership agreement, which aims to serve the ArchiCAD community with the broadest range of intelligent BIM components available on the web and in their native BIM environment.

“Building components are as mission critical to the design and realization of buildings as standard construction elements are,” said Akos Pfemeter, Director of Global Marketing at GRAPHISOFT. “We expect our customers to greatly benefit from the extended range of product families and manufacturer content that will be directly available to them with the addition of BIMobject.com as a content source to both ArchiCAD and BIMcomponents.com,” he added.

“BIMobject is committed to assisting architects and designers in realizing their designs with premium quality BIM objects of real, confirmed and approved products from existing manufacturers,” said Stefan Larsson, CEO of BIMobject. “We believe that ArchiCAD’s GDL technology and the end-to-end workflow that we are building from the manufacturers to architects and designers will greatly improve the quality of the BIM process throughout the entire lifecycle of BIM projects,” Larsson continued.

GRAPHISOFT and BIMobject have started to work on building direct links between their respective systems to make content from BIMobject.com directly accessible in ArchiCAD and BIMcomponents.com in the near future.  For more information, please visit GRAPHISOFT Booth #431 in Halle C at BAU 2013, and/or BIMobject booth #329.

About BIMobject

BIMobject AB’s mission is to increase measurable sales of products in the AEC field by generating visibility of accessible objects used in the BIM process. BIMobject offers software tools, web solutions and services to assist its customers in the creation, conversion, and publication of BIM objects on the web, by creating a straight path to the users of any BIM software.  BIMobject AB is a brand-neutral, innovative platform committed to providing cost-effective marketing and sales solutions to manufacturers.

About GRAPHISOFT

GRAPHISOFT® ignited the BIM revolution with ArchiCAD®, the industry first BIM software for architects. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as the revolutionary GRAPHISOFT BIM Server™, the world’s first real-time BIM collaboration environment, and the GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner™, the world’s first, fully integrated building energy modeling application. GRAPHISOFT’s innovative solutions have fundamentally changed the way architects around the world design and collaborate. GRAPHISOFT® has been part of the Nemetschek Group, since its acquisition in 2007.

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GDL Object Adapter for AutoCAD 2012

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GRAPHISOFT have released the GDL Object Adapter for AutoCAD 2012. The plugin can be downloaded from our official website.

Also review GRAPHISOFT’s cloud based object solution, BIMcomponents.com

BIM Components Concept
This cloud-based ArchiCAD-integrated community database collects and provides direct access to tens of thousands of GDL elements in one place. The easily searchable collection continually grows with users’, GDL developers’ and manufacturers’ new elements. BIMcomponents.com helps you obtain trustworthy 3D or 2D elements in the form of parametric GDL objects by bringing the elements directly into your ArchiCAD project library with easy embed and drag & drop methods. Seek community opinion and share your custom objects with a click, widening the available selection. Built-in quality filters, user evaluations, and recommendations result in a high overall object quality.

More information
http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/bimcomponents.html
https://bimcomponents.com/

Download ArchiCAD for free:
https://myarchicad.com/

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BIMx for Android Released

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BUDAPEST, July 26, 2012 – GRAPHISOFT announced today its latest innovation specifically targeted toward Android device users.  GRAPHISOFT BIMx™, the ultimate communication and presentation tool for BIM projects, is now available as a 3D viewer app for a range of Android devices, in addition to the iPad/iPhone.  The Facebook-integrated BIMx community and the new Model Transfer site help spread this innovative technology among architects, clients and all other stakeholders. 

BIMx (Building Information Model Explorer) is an interactive environment with game-like navigation, allowing anyone to explore full BIM models without holding a license of the professional authoring software in which the building model was originally created.  ArchiCAD users have been able to publish self-running BIMx models to run on desktop computers (Win/Mac), and on the iPad/iPhone with a purpose-built app directly linked to the BIMx community for “social” model sharing.  Now, Android users can enjoy the same benefits BIMx offers to iOS users, by downloading the player.  With BIMx, GRAPHISOFT puts BIM into the hands of all stakeholders not actively involved in the actual creation of the BIM model such as contractors, builders, clients, owners, and principals of design practices.

BIMx Community and Model Transfer Site

The integrated BIMx community on Facebook is the central hub for sharing interactive 3D building models. Architects holding either a commercial or educational BIMx license can publish their models directly to this online community. Native Facebook functions such as comments, likes and share are extended with customized functions for filtering models, searching models using key-words or finding uploaded models of specific users, architects or clients. BIMx models can be uploaded, browsed and downloaded by non-Facebook users as well; only “liking” and “commenting” requires Facebook registration.

The BIMx Model Transfer Service is a brand new “cloud service” offered to BIMx users with an active ArchiCAD Software Services Agreement. Users are entitled to 1 GB free cloud storage space with each commercial BIMx license they own. For more security, users can also password protect their files.

Availability

The BIMx desktop application is part of the standard ArchiCAD 16 installation.  Click here for further information for the system requirements on desktop, iOS and Android devices: http://www.graphisoft.com/support/bimx/system_requirements/.

About GRAPHISOFT

GRAPHISOFT ignited the BIM revolution with ArchiCAD, the industry first BIM software for architects. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as the revolutionary GRAPHISOFT BIM Server™, the world’s first real-time BIM collaboration environment and GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner™, the world’s first fully-integrated building energy modeling application that have fundamentally changed how architects worldwide design and collaborate today. Since its 2007 acquisition, GRAPHISOFT has been part of the Nemetschek Group

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ArchiCAD SA News

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From GRAPHISOFT:

  • ArchiCAD 16 has been released!

The definitive OpenBIM modeller, generation 16, the new version of ArchiCAD has been released……and it’s a “morphing BIM object” triumph…well done to the chaps from BUDAPEST!

Let me quickly cover the highlights, before starting the glowing, flowery praise, eulogy…

  • Morph Tool – not just for concept level freeform stuff, but full end to end functionality, you could morph a bubble in concept, you could morph an existing door or window during design development, you could morph some 2D lines in the 3D window, to create a detailing element for construction, the morph tool includes a revolutionary interaction with the ArchiCAD GDL functionality, which allows users to morph existing library parts at any time and return these to full fledged GDL again, and again, and again, and…
  • BIMcomponents.com – it’s GDL online, one click search and upload from ArchiCAD, we are now one global ArchiCAD user family, able to share any library part we create, anytime, search functionality includes user defined keywords…don’t forget that you can use morph to further edit any library part you find online…manufacturer specific PARAMETRIC elements should be a breeze now!
  • EcoDesigner in ArchiCAD – ArchiCAD 16 now ships with EcoDesigner built-in, it’s energy analysis “OUT-THE-BOX”

A host of other functions roll-out with version 16:

  • improved 3D editing
  • expanded teamwork back-up options
  • enhanced IFC, DWG, DXF interoperability…we are OpenBIM
  • faster hotlink updates
  • library enhancements
  • more…more…more…

Glowing, flowery praise statements by the author, look more like facts though:

  • If you do not have ArchiCAD 16, you are going to have less fun, creating fantastic architecture, than the architect who has ArchiCAD 16!
  • GRAPHISOFT have again reinforced their market leading position as architectural BIM authoring tool of choice, with the release of ArchiCAD 16!
  • The new BIM Server backup functionality enhancements in ArchiCAD 16, set the GRAPHISOFT product range as the industry leading large project, complex data model leaders!

As the new version has so much too offer in it’s long list of new features and in the extensive depth and maturity of the functionality build into these new features, the best way for users and potential users to explore these, will be by face-to-face interaction with expert instructors. Join GRAPHISOFT SA as they will be hosting a full roadshow series in SADC, from 18 June 2012 to 27 July 2012, where a 3 hour new feature demonstration and a 6 hour new version migration and feature training will be offered for each region/city on the schedule. For further details and registration, visit the event schedule page here.If you simply cannot wait, download brochures or view online videos www.graphisoft.co.za . For further details on ArchiCAD 16, BIM Server, BIMx, EcoDesigner and BIMcomponents.com, visit our product detail pages at www.graphisoft.co.za

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From African Tenders:

  • Knysna Municipality Remedial works to the sea walls in the Greater Knysna area.  This involves environmentally sensitive work in the Knysna and Swartvlei estuaries, Action Deadline: 2012-05-04, Country: south africa
  • Department of Transport KZN, Construction of the White Umfolozi (Ntinini) River Vehicle Bridge, Action Deadline: 2012-10-31, Country: south africa