We all know GRAPHISOFT enlighten the BIM revolution in 1984 by introducing ARCHICAD, and since then they keep high end innovation not just on software solutions but also on featuring advanced services and support to end users. In 2019, GRAPHISOFT made a new global initiative to educate and certify existing and future BIM managers and coordinators through transferring more than 35 years customers and projects support experiences from all around the world to end users. The global BIM Manager...

If you are working in any field related to BIM management, BIM modeling, or simply information or project coordination, then hopefully you know these terms are related to information management. In recent published ISO document about BIM (ISO 19650), the term “data” is replaced with the term “information” with many significant sub-terms to define tasks, roles, and responsibilities related to different types of information in AEC industry. Being an architect, engineer, project manager, etc....

As the name of event is clear, it was a 2-days intense training from masters of different topics in BIM. It was very interesting to see many workshops from advance level of working with ARCHICAD to openBIM, interoperability topics and even how to be a good BIM manager and deal politely with RVT files that has many missing information for data transfer. In addition to many GRAPHISOFT senior BIM consultants, 16 international guest speakers were invited to share their experience on managing...

Association of architects in Alava (part of association of architects of Basque Country and Navarra – COAVN) supporting its member by providing economic support to increase general BIM maturity level in the association. In a collaboration with GRAPHISOFT distributor in Spain (SIMBIM), association of architects in Basque Country and Navara sponsored all their members who attend the training program and pass the examination, to take advantage of free registration and international certification...

Did you know that there are more than 1 million people used BLUEBEAM Revu and more than 1 million projects is done with GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD? During 3 days event of REBUILD in Madrid, you have chance to attend different technical seminars to learn about digital transformation workflows. Let’s get some inside secrets from someone who is a certified ARCHICAD andamp; BLUEBEAM instructor and dRofus expert to see how she deal with digitalization process in construction industry. Do not miss your...

REBUILD Showroom andamp; Congress is a boutique innovation event in Spain for building sector and brings together industry leaders and more than 200 exhibiting brands. This year, SIMBIM Solutions participating and supporting rebuild expo congress as an event partner through presenting and contribution of 3 pioneering NEMETSCHEK products (ARCHICAD, BLUEBEAM, and dRofus) as the best in class BIM and digitalization solutions for construction industry. Join us with other 9,000 developers,...

We all know that BIM has been introduced into construction industry by slogan of save time and money (plus being more efficient and accurate). But the real question is, how shall we explain this slogan in real practice. Let’s look at MacLeamy diagram, the comparison of preferred design process (graph 4) and traditional methods (graph 3) shows that the main challenge and efforts of design process shift to schematic and design development phase by using preferred design process. It means faster...

If you have an account in any GRAPHISOFT portal through social media credentials (such as facebook or google), from 15th August 2019, you cannot use the same credentials to login to your portals (example: myARCHICAD, License Pool, BIMx portal, etc.). To be able to keep your account activated, you need to convert your social media credentials in GRAPHISOFT portals to a regular account. In a simple explanation, you will login to your GRAPHISOFT portals only through email and password.

As previous versions of ARCHICAD has fulfilled most of necessities and requirements (or perhaps all) of architects, ARCHICAD 23 will be a unique release of ARCHICAD that is now working towards more engineering BIM solutions to empower engineers that need to work side by side of architects. So, as ARCHICAD distributor and training center, we have started to release different technical materials for ARCHICAD 23 such as series of webinars, technical articles, new feature videos in Spanish and so...

What a pleasure to share a success case story about one of our ARCHICAD customers that has started working with ARCHICAD around 2-3 years ago. Of course, always the definition of success is subjective, but for us as distributor and training center of GRAPHISOFT in Spain, seeing our customer creativity and confident unleash in their workflow bring us feeling of success. Yesterday, case study of BD House project, designed by Xavier Vilalta and his talented ARCHICAD team (Candela Juan, Project...

ARCHICAD 23 announced with a brand-new structural modeling tool for column and beams. This new feature is not just a fancy upgrade of existing column and beam tool, but a revolutionary solution that enables element-level modeling for columns and beams. It comes very handy specially when we are dealing with modeling, data management, and documentation of prefabricated structural elements such as reinforced concrete, steel, timber and composite structures.

ARCHICAD widely known as one of the best (or the best) BIM authoring software that provides most comprehensive IFC import and export with absolute control over all the parameters of the elements within an IFC file. It is a true OPENBIM solution, but parallel to be one of the best solutions for OPENBIM interoperability, ARCHICAD 23 provides a unique system integration with selected pioneer BIM solutions to improve productivity and quality of BIM-based design, build, and building operations.