GRAPHISOFT announced today that ARCHICAD 23’s global rollout process has begun. The latest version of award-winning ARCHICAD vastly improves perceived performance of essential processes such as software startup, file opening, working in multi-project environments and switching between different views of the BIM project. The brand-new Opening, Column and Beam tools increase modeling accuracy and interoperability with engineering disciplines. In addition to today’s shipping news, based on the launch of ARCHICAD 23 in June and enthusiastic AEC industry feedback, ARCHICAD 23 has won the 2019 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Products award in the Tech: Design Tools category.

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Thanks to the latest improvements to the dRofus-ARCHICAD live connection, dRofus 2.3 fully supports ARCHICAD 23, and users can now easily import rooms from ARCHICAD into dRofus. This enhancement will improve workflows and help users to save time, which is a great benefit when working on especially large and complex projects.

Learn more about ARCHICAD-dRofus interoperability here.

Last chance to register for #graphisoftLEARN Master Classes in Budapest, October 3-4! Learn about "next-gen" BIM technologies and trends from the leaders of the AEC industry! Join Laurent Vidal, co-founder of Twinmotion, the award-winning real-time 3D immersion software now developed by Epic Games, a co-sponsor of the event -- along with McNeel, BIMm and Intel.

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Marc Koehler Architects is an Amsterdam based concept, architecture and urban design studio. They are the creative minds behind Superlofts, a growing international network of building communities that share ideas and know-how on self-made housing and cooperative development.

Designed using ARCHICAD, the Superlofts Blok Y project in Utrecht focuses on flexibility, participation and adaptability, offering a collective of 30 homeowners a blank canvas to customize or design and build their apartments according to their needs, actively engaging them from the outset to co-create the building and its shared spaces. The Superlofts Blok Y case study examines this unique complex — where no two apartments are alike — resulting from the building’s radical flexibility, collective character and high level of sustainability…

REBUILD Showroom & Congress, a boutique innovation event in Madrid, Spain for the building sector, brings together industry leaders and more than 200 exhibiting brands. This year, GRAPHISOFT Distributor SIMBIM Solutions will participate and support the expo congress as an event partner, representing three pioneering Nemetschek products (ARCHICAD, BLUEBEAM and dRofus) as the best in class BIM and digitalization solutions for the construction industry. Join us September 17-19, together with 9,000 developers, builders, architects, installers, engineers and interior designers attending this event and learn more about the latest trends in digital construction.

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The built-in Hyper-model viewer has been updated and is now available on the BIMx Model Transfer site. Providing the same feature set as the BIMx app on mobile, the BIMx Web Viewer is a perfect tool to communicate design models to all project stakeholders by sharing only the Hyper-model link with them. Thanks to GRAPHISOFT’s cloud-based BIMx Model Transfer service, clients can always access the latest version of the project, while browsing the entire content of the uploaded BIMx Hyper-models on their own computers or mobile devices in an easy-to-use, game-like way.

Watch the videos to learn out more about BIMx Web Viewer, and how to use it.

Anthony Laney, founder of Laney LA in the USA, spoke with us at the 2019 Key Client Conference about their projects. Laney LA specializes in high-end residential and commercial projects and aims to captivate their clients through an engaging process as well as a stunning result. They enjoy using ARCHICAD on their projects from start to finish, and value being a part of the worldwide GRAPHISOFT community.

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The University of Technology Sydney recently opened to the public the new UTS Central academic hub. Designed by award-winning firm, fjmtstudio, the building is part of a 10-year campus redevelopment program that aims to embody the university's strategy and approach to education, while redefining the southern gateway to the city's CBD. The ambitious project includes the Hive Superlab, the UTS Blake Library, new premises for the Faculty of Law, and research spaces for the Faculty of Engineering and IT.

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GRAPHISOFT Basecamp, the first educational event for architecture students at our global HQ in Budapest, has come to a successful close. GRAPHISOFT recruited 21 top students from Austria, Brazil, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Russia, UK and USA to further enhance their knowledge of BIM and ARCHICAD. In addition to in-depth training by GRAPHISOFT experts, the students had the chance to work on a team project in Teamwork. The task? To design a new nursery for Graphisoft Park. Following a BIM workflow and guided by trainers and mentors, each of the 5 teams finished their project on time.

Watch the GRAPHISOFT Basecamp wrap up video here...

BakamHouse Pty/Ltd, an experienced architectural service and ARCHICAD user, is devoted to developing a new level of architecture with sculptured forms and shapes. The firm recently won the 2019 Iconic Awards in Germany. The “B I SS T A © Bakam Industrialized Systemic Sculptured Towering Architecture” project, entirely made in ARCHICAD by Ahmed Bakamovic and rendered in Twinmotion by Jasmine Hadzovic, was awarded First Place in the “Innovative Project” category.

Learn more about the awards here.