ArchiCAD
Sign in to saveArchicad is an architectural building information modeling (BIM) computer-aided design (CAD) software for Mac and Windows developed by the Hungarian company Graphisoft.
Key facts
- Software.logo
- Archicad-logo-1.png
- Software.logo size
- 400
- Software.screenshot
- Archicad screenshot (3D).jpg
- Software.caption
- A 3D render of a house designed in Archicad
- Software.developer
- Graphisoft
- Software.latest release version
- 29
- Software.operating system
- Windows, macOS
- Software.genre
- Building information modeling, CAD
- Software.license
- Proprietary
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.graphisoft.com/plans-and-products/archicad
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- software version identifier
- 26 build 4019
- Commons category
- ArchiCAD
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Product overview
- Features
- Using parametric objects
- Collaboration and remote access
- APIs and scripting
- Data interchange
- License types and localizations
- License types
- Languages and localizations
- Extensions
- Version history
- See also
- References
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Archicad is an architectural building information modeling (BIM) computer-aided design (CAD) software for Mac and Windows developed by the Hungarian company Graphisoft.
==History== Development of Archicad began in 1982 for the Apple Lisa, the predecessor of the original Apple Macintosh. Following its launch in 1987, with Graphisoft's "Virtual Building" concept, Archicad became regarded by some as the first implementation of BIM. However, Archicad founder Gábor Bojár has acknowledged to Jonathan Ingram in an open letter that Sonata "was more advanced in 1986 than Archicad at that time", adding that it "surpassed already the matured definition of 'BIM' specified only about one and a half decade later". Archicad has been recognized as the first CAD product on a personal computer able to create both 2D and 3D geometry, as well as the first commercial BIM product for personal computers and considered "revolutionary" for the ability to store large amounts of information within the 3D model.