


It is clear that it was for the Architecture and Construction market, unlike AutoCAD which was a general drawing tool. ArchiCAD allows working with DWG, DXF, IFC and Sketchup files and components can be developed under Geometric Description Language (GDL)įrom the beginning ArchiCAD had a bit of an advantage, as it is an object-oriented tool, not vectors. In this field, ArchiCAD has remained very well accepted by Mac users, after AutoCAD he left Mac in 1993 and Microstation in 1995. After a year you must be renewing the password, but as long as you consider yourself an instructor or student you can use it and get used to depending on it, if you don't mind that the generated projects have the Graphisoft logo in one corner. This strategy is one of the most aggressive that this system has launched, since to download it only requires registration, then it sends you a provisional password that you must confirm every month. If you recall, ArchiCAD 3.1 was already competing against AutoCAD 2.6 in 1987, just like DataCAD and DrawBase did, but it is its later years that have catapulted it to be very popular.


ArchiCAD is a CAD platform that has a good time in the market, although initially it was a version for mac, it was up to 1987 that the 3.1 version was known.
