Virtual Trace™

Providing tighter control, better coordination and better integration of design teams, this industry-first innovative technology enables simultaneous development of the 3D model and 2D documents with full coordination and continuous visual feedback.

Yes

Yes

Gradient Fills

Linear & Radial Gradient Fills will help you achieve higher levels of graphic quality and create better representations of your design.

Yes

Yes

Intelligent Guide

"Typical" guide-lines appear when you pause the mouse over an element, "guessing" your intentions in advance.

Yes

Yes

In-Place Numeric Input

Numeric input is on-hand during every graphical operation. The tracker will follow the cursor and provide up-to-date information.

Yes

Yes

Pre-Selection Feedback

With this new feature, you'll know in advance what will be selected, and you'll receive immediate feedback about that element.

Yes

Yes

Enhanced Selection/Editing Feedback

Improved visual feedback with pre-selected and selected elements, pasted content and when moving elements.

Yes

Yes

Line work & Fill Consolidation

Efficiently handle the process of cleaning up and fixing drawings, including an optimization process for 2D drawings from consultants.

Yes

Yes

Link Construction Elements To Stories

Speed up modeling, prevent mistakes and simplify the scheduling process with logical links between elements and stories.

Yes

Yes

PDF Output

Significantly enhanced output quality and direct interface smoothes PDF creation process.

Yes

Yes

Integrated Layout

PlotMaker layout functions available in ArchiCAD. New features further enhance the documentation process.

Yes

Yes

Long File Names

Freedom to choose your naming convention with no character limitations.

Yes

Yes

Quantities Of Individual Elements Components

Highly accurate calculations, even for the most complex projects.

Yes

Yes

Enhanced Project Navigator

Enable faster navigation and better control over project documentation by separating all new view types.

Yes

Yes

Pen Sets In Views

Efficiently control the drawing set graphics with WYSIWYG and with separate and more flexible Pen Set control for each view.

Yes

Yes

Parametric Drawing Titles

Parametric titles adjust automatically to the associated drawing and indicate specific data, making editing much more flexible.

Yes

Yes

DWG Support

Open and Save DWG files formatted for AutoCAD 2000 through 2007

Yes

Yes

XRef support

This allows you to insert the multiple DWG/DXF files into one Project

Yes

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External Drawings

External drawing and picture files as well as PDF files can also be placed on the layout

Yes

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Import of Image Files

Images files of various formats (BMP, PICT, GIF, TIFF, JPEG) can be directly imported

Yes

Yes

Teamwork

With ArchiCAD's Teamwork functionality, several members of a team of architects or related professionals can work simultaneously on various aspects or parts of the same project.

Yes

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Hot Linked Modules

Hotlinked Modules allow you to insert the multiple ArchiCAD files into one Project

Yes

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Publisher

ArchiCAD's Publisher feature automates and simplifies the repeated and consistent output of a larger number of documents

Yes

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Reviewer

Project Reviewer is a Java applet that lets you view DWF, JPG, GIF, and TXT files saved in ArchiCAD using the Project Publisher command. It also allows you to add redline information to DWF files.  This is an extremely convenient way of communicating with in an internet browser.

Yes

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Markup Tools

Markup tools allow you to mark elements for correcting mistakes or managing design suggestions.

Yes

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Element information

Element information allows you to get instant feedback on some simple quantities that do not appear in the elements' settings dialog boxes, without having to use any listing commands.

Yes

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Worksheet

The Worksheet window provides a dedicated environment for 2D model-based drawings.

Yes

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Slanted wall, column, beam

Walls and columns can be slanted, stretched and/or modified.

Yes

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Profiled wall, column, beam

Complex Profiles are predefined and custom defined walls, columns and beams that can be edited by hand to take nearly any desired shape.

Yes

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Profile manager

Allows the user to design and manage profiled walls, columns and beams

Yes

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LightWorks rendering

The LightWorks Rendering Engine gives you the power to create high-quality photorealistic images. LightWorks offers ray-tracing, soft-shadow and reflection features and complex shader editing capabilities, compatible with ArchiCAD's own elements.

Yes

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Sketch Rendering

This rendering engine allows you to create and process sophisticated rendered images with different free-hand effects.

Yes

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Align View

When using a scanned photograph as the background of your rendering, the camera perspective of your building in ArchiCAD will match the perspective of the background.

Yes

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Sun Study

Sun Studies allow you to view an entire project or a selected part of it in a real-life situation by choosing a geographic location and defining the time period over which you wish to examine lighting and shadow casting.

Yes

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Interior Elevation

This work similarly to Sections and Elevations generating a marker with custom-defined reference information. Each Interior Elevation is a separate viewpoint in the Navigator Project Map. Edits made on an Interior Elevation can be reflected in the Model, and model changes can be reflected in the Interior Elevation.

Yes

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Color shading in sections and elevations

Choose this option to display a Section using the building elements' own material colors. The display colors will reflect shading effects.

Yes

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Printed manual

Yes

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Reseller Support

Yes

Yes

Open Full ArchiCAD Files

Yes

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Open ArchiCAD Start Files

Yes

Yes