Goodies | Archicad 27

Every year, Graphisoft rolls out a headline feature for ArchiCAD. Version 27 was no different, with the spotlight firmly on the Virtual Building Experience (improved 3D navigation and graphical overrides).

You can now explode imported Revit geometry into native ArchiCAD Morphs and Meshes without losing texture mapping or planar surfaces. This turns a "dumb" import into a usable, editable object in seconds. The Verdict: Upgrade for the Clicks, Not the Features If you are still on ArchiCAD 26 or 25, you might think, "I don't need sloping curtain walls." You are right. But you do need the Goodies . goodies archicad 27

You can now offset slanted columns and beams by absolute or relative vectors from the reference axis. No more doing trigonometry to figure out where the top of a slanted column sits relative to a rotated beam. It just works, and it works perfectly with the improved structural analysis workflow. 3. Graphic Override "Dropper" Tool Graphic Overrides got more powerful, but the goodie is the new interaction model: the Paint Bucket and Dropper analogy. Every year, Graphisoft rolls out a headline feature

No more guessing if your column goes through the roof or stops at the ceiling. The visual feedback is instantaneous, reducing errors in section/elevation generation by about 90%. 6. The "Revit" Import Filter (Direct Geometry) Yes, we are an ArchiCAD firm, but clients send us Revit files. The goodie in v27 isn't just that you can import RVT files (you could before), but that the geometry translation is now native. This turns a "dumb" import into a usable,