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ArchiCAD 21 – New Stair Tool

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I said it before, and not just once: repackage your product, call it an ‘all encompassing, constructing BIM tool’ and you’ll do more good to the industry than any type of new tool development. My dear, beloved, ArchiCAD and Graphisoft. Show us, and the world what you truly are made from! Please wake up!

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The chicken and the egg.Are software developers supposed to lead an industry or just serve it?

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I believe there to be a number of reasons for this to have happen: External forces changed the industry from solution based approach to output focused; Contractual framework, procurement methods, outsourcing, risk management and compliance requirements all transformed drastically. Expectations and budgets got scarily out of synch.

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The Constructor that was not meant to be.

DebunkTheBIM

Get rid of the architectural baggage Archicad was weighed down with, and make Constructor a stand alone, construction focused, modelling package. I disagreed with both points but the fact that we still have no robust construction-modellers available proves the guy knew something about the industry. Should have gone the other way.

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DebunkTheBIM: 'Now, that IS clever!'

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I believe that hands-on manipulating of project information by all project participants is the key to achieving any meaningful improvement of the AEC industry operating within the post-gambling-era. I found it in Archicad’s Object Depository while searching for something else. ‘Now, that IS clever! at 6:38 AM.

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The Caterpillar challenge – Make BIM and the global AEC cool!

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In spite of the huge amount of money sloshing within the construction field globally, it is not a ‘cool career choice’ and consequently not the ‘sharpest’ of industries. Not only will this model grow into a global industry success, it would make it cool for young and old too!

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