The best reward for a passionate architect is to see design ideas take on physical form. With GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD® Virtual Building™, you can explore your design ideas with full confidence that every detail is being captured and all your documents are synchronized. Our latest release reinforces ArchiCAD’s position as the most complete and flexible design and documentation solution for Building Information Modeling (BIM). ArchiCAD 14 introduces leadingedge technologies that revolutionize Design File Sharing and deliver mission critical productivity improvements for the design and documentation workflow.

Virtual Building
Working with ArchiCAD, you will discover the pleasures and the benefits of designing in a 3D architectural environment with extraordinary modeling freedom. Based on a profound knowledge of the architectural process, ArchiCAD’s Virtual Building simulates the way a real building is constructed. From town planning to intricate details, from functional study to complex design, ArchiCAD’s specialized tools are always available and extremely easy to use, ensuring that there are no boundaries to your creativity. With ArchiCAD, you create a 3D virtual model: all the necessary documentation and images are derived automatically.

The project lives and evolves on the screen simultaneously with your thoughts, allowing you to concentrate on your strength - creating inspiring designs. Virtual modeling is a natural and intuitive process which is both inspiring and enjoyable. Watch your building model evolve before your eyes. With the clarity of 3D, your clients can truly appreciate good design.

Design
Any architect with the passion to freely explore design ideas can fulfill their wish without compromising on documentation precision and quality. With ArchiCAD you can model and shape freely, easily creating the forms you want and change naturally even complex elements in the most appropriate view. Like editing Curtain Walls as one element in standard views and its parts in an innovative 3D edit mode: based upon a flexible hierarchical structure of schemes, physical members and additional accessories, users can easily change and control the entire system or the smallest detail throughout the entire project.

ArchiCAD enables you to combine creative freedom with the well-known efficiency of the robust Virtual Building. A comprehensive set of tools support the creative process within the context of the project - so while you design your
project all documents will be generated as a by-product, assuring smooth workflow and real-time evaluation.

Documentations
The innovative 3D Document capability enables you to use any 3D view of the model as the basis for creating a document where dimensions, annotations and even additional 2D drawing elements may be added. This helps you more easily communicate your design intent. This new level of clarity in communication helps you to spend less time on design iteration with stakeholders and reduce the number of construction issues which inevitably will increase cost and lengthen the project schedule. ArchiCAD 14 continues the trend of delivering mission critical, productivity improvements in documentation in each major release of ArchiCAD. ArchiCAD 14 introduces Annotated Schedule Drawings, Oriented Views, Intelligent Symbol Fills, Improved Object Handling, 64 bit Support and much more. These improvements further enhance ArchiCAD’s best-in-class design and documentation workflow.

Collaboration
The Virtual Building automatic update capabilities make coordination between documents effortless. When you create a 3D model, all the building components are shown, so you can check every part and any aspect of your project. And this is not the only way ArchiCAD supports the crucial goal of coordination. ArchiCAD’s innovative Virtual Trace™ technology enables you to easily coordinate your work and track design changes both internally and with multi-disciplinary teams. Working with ArchiCAD, you can quickly and visually analyze differences between your 3D model, 3D and 2D documents and consultants’ documents. It becomes much easier to detect clashes between different building systems before construction starts. The combination of these comprehensive capabilities makes ArchiCAD an extremely efficient coordination tool.

Control
ArchiCAD’s renowned Virtual Building design solution, together with the industry-first GRAPHISOFT BIM Server technology, provide unmatched control over the design project within an extremely flexible workflow. Using ArchiCAD, you can define and control the balance between 3D and 2D work to match your own preferences, the project type, or the team members’ abilities, thus making the most of the team’s expertise and tailoring the technology to fit their workflow. The GRAPHISOFT BIM Server provides central control for CAD/BIM Managers over team members’ roles and responsibilities in BIM projects. The dynamic nature of design projects requires parallel processes, smooth workflow and tight control. Using ArchiCAD, you can achieve all these with the confidence that your documents are synchronized and that the right type of document is at hand to clearly illustrate your thoughts. You keep control over the process, while your clients receive the highest quality design.

Workflow
ArchiCAD’s workflow gives you more control over your design, while maintaining accuracy and efficiency in documentation. From the central database of the 3D model data, you can extract all the information needed to complete architectural and structural plans, sections and elevations, details, bills of quantities, window/door/finish schedules, renderings, animations and virtual reality scenes. The Virtual Building approach also enables you to make changes at any time, while maintaining the integrity of your documents automatically.

ArchiCAD Experience Kit
The Experience Kit is a unique combination of fully functional time-limited version of ArchiCAD together with a targeted interactive learning guide.

With this offer, architects have the opportunity to quickly evaluate the benefits of ArchiCAD while testing it on real projects. Assisted by the comprehensive interactive learning guide, designers will enjoy productive work from day one. This free unique combination is available at https://myarchicad.com.

Graphisoft is also offering a Start Edition which has the major features of ArchiCAD and is offered for almost half the price. Click here to review the differences between the two versions.

System Requirements

	Windows	Macintosh
Operating System	Windows® XP Professional (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows® Vista Business and Ultimate Edition (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)	Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, or 10.6 Snow Leopard
CPU	Intel® Pentium 4, or compatible processors with equal or higher performance	Macintosh® with any Intel® processor*
RAM	2 GB of RAM is required, 4 GB or more is recommended for complex models
Hard Drive	Minimum of 1 GB free hard disk space is required for a full installation. Additional 2-3 GB is required for work with complex projects and 3D visualization.
Display	1024x768 resolution is required.1280x1024 or higher is recommended.
Video Card	Open GL and DirectX 9 compatible graphic card with 256 MB or more on-board video memory is recommended to fully exploit hardware acceleration capabilities	Open GL compatible graphic card with 256 MB or more on-board video memory is recommended to fully exploit hardware acceleration capabilities

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