BIG prides itself on being ‘edgy’ in its technology choices and design instincts. Here, Graphisoft believes it has found a great partner in Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), a progressive architecture firm with headquarters in Copenhagen and a major office in New York. It also has to sell its customers on new workflows. Increased mandates from government for IFC-compliant documentation is changing things, but it isn’t just customer reluctance that Graphisoft needs to tackle. “Between the desktop and the mindset, there is a big gap,” says Szolnoki. To put it another way, Graphisoft executives believe that few architects are using the information management capabilities of either BIM or the open IFC construction data model. The ‘M’ in BIM, meanwhile, is now about management, not models, as I heard several executives say on my trip to Hungary.
“Information is an asset architects can sell.” “Information is power,” ArchiCAD implementation team leader Tibor Szolnoki told me on a recent day-long visit to Graphisoft’s headquarters in Budapest. With its new ability to work with Rhino data, and additional new features relating to import and use of metadata, Graphisoft says it’s on a mission to put the ‘I’ in BIM. That’s a challenge when almost half of your potential audience are still scratching their heads and only just starting to think about maybe trying this new BIM thing. Graphisoft’s leadership team knows that, in order stay relevant, the company has to move BIM forward, not just as a modelling system, but also as an information management system.
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Of course it does - but no more than any other forward-looking software company in this market. The newest version of ArchiCAD is now out and offers some great new features, but to listen to Graphisoft vice president for Europe, Andras Haidekker, you would think that the company faces major challenges. Graphisoft, the maker of ArchiCAD, is a division of the larger Nemetschek Group, which recorded record revenue of €285.3 million in 2015, up 30% on the previous year.
Rhino uses NURBS to control curves and define surfaces (top row) ArchiCAD uses polygon meshes to define shapes (bottom row) The new live link logic between Rhino+Grasshopper and ArchiCAD solves the issue of radically different approaches to creating 3D data.
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