This means that you can easily get it to calculate quantities and all the related info you need if you approach it right. I'd be interested to hear what you have found the best process to be?ĪRCHICAD is, after all, a BIM aplication, so it does allow you to produce a fully coordinated BIM model. Hi,What is considered best practice now and is there a way to coordinate this with the information produced by Archicad? Please excuse my rather off-putting and unconstructive rant in the previous message. I love Lists/Databases, but they are way too complex for most of users.ĭid not want to sound grim. If you are not willing to go the length, then some limited commercial interface to this old feature might help you get by. The verdict is as follows: if you are no stranger to BIM and can restrict yourself to proper BIM workflow (!important), don't mind doing your own setup and a bit of bug fixing and programming (Lists are buggy and being a very old feature have some odd limitations in the name lengths of specifications, for instance), ARCHICAD's Lists/Databases specification system would be one of the tools (together with BIMx and BIM server) that would easily bring you 100% client conversion rate. after all, it is only one of the key BIM dimensions, a coveted BIM 5D to be exact, and in no way as important as a new and improved umbrella library part ARCHICAD users get every year).
ARCHICAD COST UPDATE
It is only natural that some commercial entity would want to capitalize on GRAPHISOFT's reluctance to update this treasure (and, honestly, why GRAPHISOFT would want to update Lists.
This document tries, but fails to explain this long-forgotten, but extremely powerful feature. Every version of ARCHICAD comes out accompanied by a totally incomprehensible "ArchiCAD Calculation Guide" that is located in "Documentation" folder of every installation. It is build upon multiple customizable databases, connection property objects and resulting List schedules.
Truth to be told, ARCHICAD has absolutely breathtaking built-in specification system that nobody ever uses in full. Im looking for the same thing.īimrecipe is marketing a simple interface change to ARCHICAD's own specification system that has been built into every ARCHICAD for decades (unfortunately, last updated in ARCHICAD 9, circa 2004).