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EcoDesigner

”Green” Becomes Organic Part of the Architectural Design Workflow in the ArchiCAD14

Graphisoft uniquely offers the best way to foster sustainable design providing architects with “green” tools at the conceptual design phase. This enables the best-in-class workflow that makes energy evaluation just as easy to perform as generating a section or a 3D view from the virtual building model. This will allow architects to compare various design options about sustainability very easily and make necessary design changes until they are very easy to effectuate. Graphisoft EcoDesigner allows architects to perform reliable energy evaluation of their virtual buildings within ArchiCAD mainly relying on building geometric analysis and accurate hour-by-hour weather data of the building location. This process requires relatively few physical material properties that can be provided with simple and straightforward user input. A reliable, certified calculation engine performs dynamic building energy evaluation providing information on yearly energy consumption, carbon footprint and monthly energy balance of the project.

The paradigm of sustainable design: 80% of the design decisions influencing a building’s energy performance are made by the architect in the early design phase; at later design phases engineers only have influence on the remaining 20%…

Virtual Building Explorer

The Graphisoft Virtual Building™ Explorer is an innovative, interactive, 3D presentation tool for architects, which sets new standards for design communication and presentation.

Using Graphisoft Virtual Building Explorer and ArchiCAD architects and designers can explore their project designs with greater clarity than ever before. Real-time 3D navigation in an architectural design – enhanced with stereo viewing modes, gravity, layer control, fly-mode, egress recognition and pre-saved walkthroughs for the ultimate design exploration.

Next-Gen BIM:

Graphisoft Teamwork 2.0 will revolutionize
BIM/IPD workflow and collaboration

------- by Jerry Laiserin

Collaboration — within building design teams and across multiple project delivery participants — is the most critical success factor for BIM (building information modeling) and IPD (integrated project delivery). Teamwork 2.0, a technological breakthrough in collaboration from Graphisoft (and expected to ship later this year as part of ArchiCAD 13) offers such radical improvement in support for collaboration that any design firm or project team considering or attempting the BIM and/or IPD approaches must now seriously (re-)evaluate their choice of model-authoring tool for BIM/IPD

Google Connection for ArchiCAD

Google is the perfect place to turn to get a large library of content

Google Earth Connections enables seamless integration between ArchiCAD, Google Earth and the Google 3D Warehouse. This capability moves users past the Virtual Building to the virtual world. With this intuitive interface, ArchiCAD users can not only download 3D information from Google for use in their projects: they can also publish their designs to the world.