Keynotes is now smarter with how you set defaults. Double click a Keynote within the Keynote Palette and open the Label settings:
Here you can set what information is shown, text size and font, frames etc. Once set place your Keynote.
Now if you hold ALT and pick up the properties of that Keynote Label all other Keynote Labels will be formatted the exact same way
ARCHICAD 19 brings with it a bunch (not a technical term) of new library parts for you to use!
Bathroom objects, Playground objects, Fancy TVs, some sort of guttering, and much more.
Objects also have a nice newly enhanced User Interface, so working with them is much easier to navigate, and prettier to look at.
Some of you out there are probably having your green WIBU key plugs replaced with new CodeMeter or Software Keys (or you already have).
As you may know, your Cadimage Tools license is associated with your ArchiCAD license number, so when you change licenses for ArchiCAD, you’ll need to re-activate your tools too.
To do this, just send us an email (support@cadimagegroup.com) to let us know which license number(s) you are moving, and we can setup the license changeover.
In conjunction with the fancy new Tabbed interface for both platforms, ARCHICAD 19 also includes an overhaul of the windowing system used in the OSX interface, bringing it in line with the way the Windows interface works.
The new Unified-Window design means that all of the palettes and panels that were previously floating around, are now all contained by 1 overall window, which is easily resizable, and supports changing to Full-Screen mode with just 1-click, making ARCHICAD 19 feel like the most ‘natural’ BIM application on the Mac.
The palettes and windows can be docked and undocked inside the single-window interface, and can also be dragged out of it and onto a second (or more!) display.
And because the OSX interface and the Windows one look and work so much alike now, transferring Work Environments between the 2 will be much easier.
Graphisoft have recently updated the File Converter for ArchiCAD 10 to support the WIBU (green) key replacement and introduction of soft keys.
The converters can be downloaded from here: http://www.graphisoft.com/downloads/fileconverter.html
More information on File Converters is available in this post: http://blog.cadimage.com/2015/05/opening-old-archicad-projects/
When you log a support ticket (by email or online via www.mycadimage.com) it is important to include as much detailed information as possible. This is to help the Cadimage Support Team diagnose and resolve your problem as quickly as possible.
If possible, please includethe following:
for example – ArchiCAD freezes when I explode my Doors+Windows
see http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/ for more details
This is a really important part as it helps the team investigate exactly what you are experiencing
if the problem is file specific, include it with your ticket
is it Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 or MacOS 10.9 / 10.10 etc
How many times have you gone in to an old project looking for a Section, Elevation or Detail Marker and struggled to find it on plan?
There is actually a very simple way to do this… right click in the Navigator (Project Map or View Map) on the Marker you are looking for and then click on the Select Elevation marker on the Home Story and zoom to it option…
I know – ‘Label Improvements’ doesn’t sound particularly sexy as far as New Features go, but bear with me.
The label tool – which we all use, but probably never actually think about – has got some fancy new tricks.The first thing is that you can now add multiple labels to a single element.
The first thing is that you can now add multiple labels to a single element. So you can put different labels on a single element that list properties (such as the Fire Rating, and the ID), place the same label multiple times along a large element, label parts of a Hotlinked module inside the host project, or whatever else you can think of.
The next thing, is that they are now much easier to place – you don’t need to go through the element’s settings dialog anymore, now you can just click on it with the label tool. This also means that you can label multiple different elements at once!
And finally, editing Labels and Pointers is much easier and cleverer. You can now edit the angle of the pointer lines, lock the angle of the lines, and easily switch pointers on and off for all labels of a certain type.
Label Styles is a feature at the very bottom of the Keynotes Palette allowing you to set different defaults for your Keynotes.
You just set up the Keynote as you want it and choose ‘New Style':
Give it a name and that is stored and used from now on:
You can then add another style and choose as you place notes how you want you Keynote formatted
As you no doubt already know, ARCHICAD 19 is well on its way!
And so, as is traditional, the Cadimage Blog will be counting down to the official release with regular blog posts showing off what’s new.
To kick things off, why not try the Predictive Background Processing?
Your computer has a bunch of potential processing power inside it and, much of the time, it’s just sitting there spinning its wheels. Occasionally you’ll ask it to do something and everything will ramp up to full speed for a few seconds, and then die back down again.
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to use all that spare time your computer has to do something constructive, rather than just twiddling its thumbs until you need it to do something, and forcing you to wait for it?
That’s the idea behind ARCHICAD’s Predictive Background Processing – while you’re working away in your project, ARCHICAD 19 will put all that extra, unused processing power to work in the background.
So when you next change to a 3D view or a section or elevation, instead of making you wait around to see the effects your last changes have made, it’ll just be there already, waiting for you, or at least will only take a very short time to regenerate, since it started doing it well before you even got there!
Best of all – you don’t need to do anything to get the advantage of it. Everything just happens in the background as you do the real work, so you can get more of it done, faster.
If you currently own one or more of the Cadimage Tools on a Perpetual license AND you’re thinking of upgrading those tools to ARCHICAD 19, you should read this.
We are currently offering all existing tools customers with Perpetual licenses a special discount* if they move to a Subscription plan.
What is a Subscription Plan?
Buying the Tools on a Subscription plan means that you pay a small monthly or annual fee for the tools. The plans start at $29USD per month [view more pricing options].
Why would I choose a Subscription Plan?
Subscription pricing allows our customers greater control over their finances as they can pause, cancel, or down-grade their Subscription at any time.
You don’t have to move to a Subscription plan, however for many of our customers this option represents great value, as they will receive this discount off the usual subscription cost PLUS our usual ‘two months free’ bonus if they choose to pay annually. That means access to two tools for the next year will cost $290USD, less the discount applied to the account.
Want more info?
We’ve created a page with common questions here.
Ready to make the move?
Your account is preloaded with the discount, so just head on over to https://www.mycadimage.com/buy to purchase a Subscription. Make sure you login using your usual MyCadimage credentials to ensure the discount is applied to your purchase.
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* This discount has been applied to the account of all applicable customers and must be redeemed before June 30. After June 30 a reduced discount will still be available until 30 June 2017.
Tabs – we know you love ‘em. I certainly do.
If you’re anything like us, you have approximately 1 bajillion tabs open in your web browser at any given time. You’re already familiar with them and the way they work, so it makes sense to have them in ARCHICAD now too.
The new Tabs interface in ARCHICAD 19 makes getting around between your views faster and easier than ever. Not only will you easily be able to shift between the views you have opened in tabs, but due to the new Background Processing tech, most of the time, when you change to another tab, all of the re-generating of it will already be done by the time you get there. No more waiting around!
The icons on tabs will also give you a bunch of useful information about what’s going on with that view, and a context (right-click) menu will let you change to similar views, or get to relevant settings.
An finally, because the tabs make things so much easier, you’ll no longer need to have the Navigator open all the time to get to your views – it can now be minimized to a little pop-out menu button on the end of your tab bar.
Have you tried searching the Knowledgebase on www.cadimage.com?
Here is a direct link: http://cadimage.com/Support/KnowledgeBase
In the Knowledgebase, you will find a range of technical information including:
You might also find our Forums helpful as they contain a range of real-life questions and answers submitted by Cadimage customers
Sometimes it is necessary to filter the visible elements in the 3D Window to improve performance or restrict the elements for exporting data.
The Layers within ArchiCAD will allow some flexibility here – but they will not for example allow you to hide the Doors or Windows (in ArchiCAD, Doors and Windows belong to their parent wall and as such do not have a layer).
To do this we use Filter Elements in 3D available from View> Elements in 3D View> Filter and Cut Elements in 3D…
There are other settings that also allow you to control the visible stories and marquee behaviour.
Have you ever found the colours on screen don’t look quite like the colours you output on paper? Well, without going in to display configuration, a simple thing you can do is use this great Object and print a version of your pen palette so you know what the colours will be like on your device(s).
You can find the Object in Graphic Symbols 18> Pens and Colors 18 as highlighted below:
I configured mine to have the same columns as the Pen dialogs in ArchiCAD so it looks as follows:
…and if you look closer you will see the Pen Number and RGB values:
If you switch to Style 2 it will also draw a section of line so you can see the thickness of the pen.
If you want to quickly work out and show the area of a space all you need to do is draw a Fill and activate the Show Area Text option…
ARCHICAD 19 reads point-clouds, providing faster, error-free building surveys by using the latest 3D scanner laser-survey technology, eliminating all errors due to manual data input.
Refurbishment projects typically start with a time-consuming building-survey phase that may involve manual measurements and the creation of a digital building model. But now 3D scanners – representing the latest technology innovations – can generate “point-clouds” containing all the necessary geometry information of an interior, including its volutes and ornaments.
ARCHICAD 19 can read the most commonly used point-cloud file formats and create the corresponding 3D geometry instantly. So you can align your design with automatically-generated, 100% accurate point-cloud 3D geometry information.
This surveying workflow dramatically reduces the time spent on surveying. And it eliminates errors due to manual data input. Some typical real-life examples of how users put 3D laser survey and point- clouds to work:
The Pointcloud function will allow ARCHICAD 19 to open .xyz and .e57 file formats and convert them into native GDL‐like objects.
There is a very small option in the Keynote Schedule object which can make a big difference to the appearance of your schedule.
Within the settings under Text Format>Key there is a checkbox for ‘Treat the Key as part of the Title':
If this is turned on the Keynotes will be formatted as paragraphs with the Key followed by a space and the Title.
However if this is unticked the Key will below in its own dedicated column making them easier to location and all the Titles & Descriptions will stay in their separate column also.
For working in 3D and for informal client presentations, most of us probably turn to ArchiCAD’s built‐in 3D window with the OpenGL engine. OpenGL provides fast navigation in 3D views that are always up to date, and allow co‐design with the client.
So with ArchiCAD 19, Graphisoft have fine-tuned and optimized the OpenGL engine, so that navigation will be smoother and faster than ever – free from flickering, even with big models.
This morning, we released version 2.0 of the Cadimage Installer.
We’re very pleased with it, and we hope you like it! It’s a bit prettier now, and packs a handful of new features that will make installation and updating of the Tools easier for you.
The first thing you’ll notice, is that there are now other things you can do initially besides just logging in.
The default selection of ‘Install Cadimage Tools’ will do just what it says. However, there are now options to Create an Offline Install File, and to reset your installer settings, as well as an ‘Offline’ switch which will show a tick if the installer can’t reach our servers.
We’ll cover off those extra bits in more detail in the Knowledge base soon, but for now, what you want to know about is installing and updating your tools.
Once you’ve logged in, you’ll see a familiar looking screen, although with a few changes:
Here, in the ‘My Tools’ view you can see what tools you have installed currently, as well as any tools you own, that aren’t currently installed.
Just click the ‘Install’ button next to the tools you want, or hit the ‘Install All’ button up at the top to install everything you own.
If you click on the ‘Updates’ button up at the top to change to that view, you will now see any updates that are available for tools you have installed:
This view works similarly to the ‘My Tools’ one – hit ‘Update’ on any tools you want to update, or hit ‘Update All’ to update the lot of them.
From here, you can also venture across to the Trial and Education views, which will let you install 30-day trials of Tools you don’t own, or install the tools for an Education version of ARCHICAD.
More details will come later, but for now, if you have any further questions about the installer, just log a ticket with us by emailing support@cadimagegroup.com