One could argue that Architecture is the foundation design-to-detail phase, upon which all other tasks rely. The only issue that belies all this work is probably the name of Graphisoft’s software, as ‘Archi’ is ever more a misleading pigeonhole. All the while, its main competitor – Autodesk Revit – despite some renewed development work, looks moribund. The pace of this development and convergence seems to be accelerating. From now on, Archicad competes as a single building model tool, which can handle all core AEC design activities – Architecture and MEP – under its own brand, then through Nemetschek’s other brands for structural (Scia, Risa, Frilo). This is a significant moment for Graphisoft. This means Archicad will become multi-discipline and more of a feature-for-feature competitor to Autodesk Revit. Nemetschek had seemed to be holding out – until this year that is, when it decided to take its DDScad MEP product and fold it into the Graphisoft company. In the industry this went against the standard flow, with others integrating into suites or single solutions. Unlike other AEC software firms, it has always tended to keep its brands as separate units, each with their own CEO, promoting each solution. Nemetschek, which is the parent company of Graphisoft, owns many construction-related brands – Solibri, Allplan and Bluebeam to name but a few. Offering a stack of user-requested updates, the platform continues to lay the groundwork for multi-disciplinary capabilities with structural tools and DDScad for MEP This summer Graphisoft released Archicad 26 a brand new release of its flagship BIM tool.
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