At the same time, there are 7,000 all-new command icons, with another 13,000 library icons to be updated on an ongoing basis. By contrast, ArchiCAD 20 now gives them thin lines, uniform button sizes and only the most commonly used commands appear by default. In the past, it presented users with two line thicknesses, three line types and three colours. That led to what designers refer to as ‘interface noise’, but borrowing from best practices for mobile apps, ArchiCAD 20’s rebuilt interface is more comfortable and less cluttered. “The old interface had too many buttons of varying size and emphasis,” Szolnoki explains. Its interface designers have stripped the screen down into three elements: background, icons and text. The user interface has been completely redesigned to be, in the words of Graphisoft’s Tibor Szolnoki, “modern, minimalist, fresh and friendly.” We’ll get to that second claim later, but that ‘fresh look’ will be obvious to the experienced ArchiCAD user the moment version 20 boots. That leadership continues in ArchiCAD 20, with several key enhancements introduced with a view to extending the product’s value.Īccording to the company’s marketing slogans for this release, ArchiCAD 20 offers “a fresh look at BIM” and will “put the I in BIM” for customers. Today, it’s a BIM thought leader even if, globally, it’s not the top seller of architectural software. A new ‘cardboard’ visualisation option will be popular for initial design review studiesīack in the 1980s, Graphisoft was the first company to put a 3D architectural modeller on a personal computer, the thennew Apple Macintosh.
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