I met Archicad during my studies, I was and still am impressed by the possibilities of this program, which is still being developed. As is, it's a severely bloated Sketchup pretending to be a BIM package. It's sad because if they spent a few years cleaning up the beast that they've created, it could be a match for Revit. This is sloppy software development at its finest. Instead of giving users what they need, modify the GUI and give them a bunch of useless crap to try to get them to buy the newest version.

Instead of fixing problems and consolidating settings, Graphisoft has decided that their mantra is 'addition.' If something doesn't work right, just add features so that no one notices what they're missing. There are 20 ways to access every objects setting and it will confuse you to no end for the first year.

The inability to create 'blocks' is utterly ridiculous and maddening.

You'll curse Archicad's lack of ortho snaps. Archicad will force you to be inaccurate unless you fight it to your last breath. You will fudge things with solid element operations that will keep you up at night. You will be piecing together your model using slabs to represent everything under the sun. They function exactly the way they should. It's easy to create what you want and to get it to look the way it should. I'd be curious to hear from you guys about this.Sometimes I like that archicad is less rigid than Revit. It would obviously also eliminate the need for the development of any BIMx for Microsoft Surface tablets (running Windows 11, obviously) since then you could just run it natively as an Android App on the Windows platform. It would (ironically) solve one of Graphisoft's most requested features (for a Windows platform BIMx mode or app that can be run from Windows before uploading the BIMx model to either cloud or an Android device to see how it actually runs in the BIMx environment - and NOT through the current BIMx Desktop which has entirely different functionality and feel). Now that Windows 11 has unofficially entered the Android App compatibility open beta testing phase, has anyone at Graphisoft been able to test whether the BIMx or BIMx Pro apps from the Android store are able to work through this mode in Windows now? Quick question (to either of you, if you can answer it).

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