Archicad 27
Your best design option
Reflex Architects – Kineum, Sweden, reflexark.se, Photo: Anton Adielsson
Your best design option
A brand-new design option solution, professional visualization tools, improved management of complex projects, and advances in open, multidisciplinary design collaboration, and exclusive subscription offerings make Archicad 27 your best design option.
What’s new
Watch this video to find out more about the highlights of the 2023 Graphisoft products lineup – Archicad 27, DDScad 19, BIMcloud, BIMx – the industry leading building design solutions are “Your best design option”.
Product updates
Watch this video for a comprehensive overview of the 2023 Graphisoft products lineup – Archicad 27, DDScad 19, BIMcloud, BIMx – the industry leading building design solutions are “Your best design option”.
What’s new
Product updates
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Design
Explore design options the easy way and spend less time on project management — Archicad 27 helps your team stay organized and files streamlined even as the size and complexity of projects continue to grow.
Montpellier, France
Location
The Rhino-Grasshopper-Archicad toolset allowed us to translate our bold initial sketch into a real, sustainable and feasible design.
Guillaume Maréchaux
Client
Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés, France
Company
Intelligent Tracker
Essential math functions are always at your fingertips with the new, intelligent Archicad Tracker. Develop your design ideas faster and without the need for an external calculator – multiply, divide, add, or subtract functions directly from the Tracker.
Fast Modeling with Distance Guides
Position your model elements quickly and more comfortably on the floor plan. Distance Guides delivers a long-awaited, innovative capability – actively position building elements thanks to an intuitive use of numerical and graphical input of dimensions.
Integrated Design Options
Find the best design alternative faster with the new Archicad 27 Design Options solution. Evaluate and share design alternatives quickly and efficiently thanks to an optimized workflow dedicated to evolving design variations – regardless of the size or scale of the project.
Enhanced Search
Find what you need in seconds! Expanded Search capabilities speed up working with longs lists, including Views, Graphic Override Combinations and Rules, Library textures, Layouts, and Drawings.
Graphic Override Organization
Unleash the full potential of the Graphic Overrides – manage rules and combinations faster and more easily thanks to better organization and the new Search function.
Modern GDL Editor
Whether you create your own parametric objects or develop commercial object libraries, you’re going to love the new GDL Editor! Better navigation thanks to syntax highlights, shortcuts for editing commands, and last – but not least – dark mode to reduce eye strain.
Improved Project Management
Stay organized and work more efficiently thanks to extended capabilities for more attributes types, faster workflows, and greater consistency.
Visualize
Deliver high-impact visualizations quickly and easily thanks to professional out-of-the-box solutions and streamlined connections to other professional architectural visualization solutions – your freedom of choice.
Tianfu Roadshow Center
Building
Proven and real-time connection between our BIM tool and rendering software allows us to communicate our design intent simply and effectively.
Tektonn Architects, China
Company
Streamlined Archicad – Enscape Connection
Create real-time visualizations more comfortably with the revamped Archicad – Enscape connection:
- Map any Archicad object to any high-poly Enscape asset to leverage the best of both worlds.
- Enscape is now also available for the macOS platform.
- Available for Subscription, Forward, and SSA users only.
Native AR and VR Connection
Engage your clients with a high-impact AR/VR design experience for faster buy-in. Archicad’s native support for importing and exporting industry-standard FBX files to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications makes it easy.
Open Rendering Workflow
Choose your preferred visualization solution and impress your clients with high-impact images and videos. Archicad delivers versatile and flexible toolsets for professional architectural visualization through the freedom of choice to use other professional visualization solutions like Enscape, Twinmotion, Lumion, Nvidia Omniverse, 5D Render, Cinema4D, and many more.
Collaborate
Collaborate with design teams using OPEN BIM to implement flexible, intuitive, industry-leading multi-disciplinary design workflows with MEP and structural engineers.
Jyväskylä, Finland
Location
©2023 Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Photo
We had to coordinate the work of 30 architects and about 100 engineers. Archicad and BIMcloud were the key tools in this task.
Industry Standard Certification
Enjoy next-level OPEN BIM collaboration with IFC4! Archicad 27 is equipped with the IFC4 file import and export certification issued by the international buildingSMART organization. This ensures consistency and efficiency in data exchange across disciplines and other solutions.
Efficient Change Management
Stay in the loop about the latest design changes thanks to the Model Compare tool, developed for multidisciplinary design teams with extensive change management requirements. The new dialog displays a comprehensive and detailed list of changes.
“One Click” Analytical Model Export
Structural Analytical Model Exchange couldn’t be easier! Use the open, Structural Analytical File (SAF) format to export the analytical model of the architectural design in Archicad 27 and send it directly to structural analytical solutions (such as SCIA or RISA). One click is all it takes!
Structural Workflow Enhancements
Refine your structural-analytical model for accurate structural calculations! Archicad 27 enables architects to streamline the design workflow with structural engineers. The new manual adjustment feature helps to achieve a continuous structural-analytical model on complex projects and enables both teams to reduce inconsistencies and speed up design collaboration.
Renewed MEP Modeler
Give your MEP modeling workflow a boost! Graphisoft MEP Modeler 2.0 is here with a streamlined modeling technology and an updated user interface. Connect your Archicad BIM project to the preferred MEP modeling calculation used by MEP engineers to help them stay focused on their work.
IFC Model Exchange with Archicad for Revit 2024
Improve your IFC-based model collaboration with Revit 2024 users! The IFC Model Exchange tool for Revit 2024 optimizes Revit models for exchange with Archicad 27 users.
Document
Focus on your designs, not the paperwork! Complete, out-of-the-box documentation tools combined with a powerful publishing workflow allow.
Future Africa Campus, Dining Hall
Building
Pretoria, South Africa
Location
The tool that Archicad puts in your hand is control over every element and every aspect of the design.
Eartworld Architects, South Africa
Company
Interactive Schedules Formatting
Publish your project calculations, lists, and schedules with the required formatting and visual appearance directly from Archicad! Interactive element schedules let you extract and list the right data from the BIM project. Now, interactive schedules are enhanced with improved formatting capabilities and provide more control over the visual look of your reports.
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