Archicad is a fast, intuitive BIM platform built for designing great buildings—so you can focus on design while it delivers powerful modeling, documentation, publishing, rendering, and analysis out of the box.

Key benefits

• Efficient design documentation: Generate building documentation automatically with integrated tools.
• One-click publishing: Share deliverables quickly without manual overhead.
• Photo-realistic rendering: Create high-end visuals with updated surface materials and improved workflows.
• Best-in-class analysis & checking: Improve model reliability using built-in physical and analytical model validation.
• Integrated collaboration: Connect architects and engineers in a shared BIMcloud environment with transparent workflows that reduce duplication and coordination errors.

Collaboration & integrated workflows

• Building Together: Seamless collaboration in a shared BIMcloud space for integrated design.
• One shared model: Keep architectural and structural work synchronized in a common design hub using OPEN BIM standards.
• Structural analytical model integration: Work with an integrated structural analytical model and maintain a bi-directional workflow between design and analysis.

Advanced modeling capabilities

• Model anything, model everything: Create the complete BIM model with a robust architectural toolkit and deeper integration for structural workflows.
• Built-in MEP Modeler: Build and integrate MEP directly in the architectural model—no federated approach required.
• PARAM-O object creation: Create custom parametric objects using a node-based visual workflow without GDL programming knowledge.
• MEP equipment inside the model: Place and manage intelligent MEP equipment to help ensure correct system integration.

Design iteration & change management

• Ideas and alternatives: Create and submit design alternatives for team review, then integrate accepted versions instantly.
• Model Compare: Compare 3D models/versions, visualize differences, and filter changes to manage variants and revisions confidently.
• Change monitoring & notifications: Detect, organize, and resolve BIM model changes faster with real-time alerts.
• Issue integration: Incorporate issues from third parties that work with industry-standard issue management solutions.

Publishing, submission, and information exchange

• Always in sync: Fast publishing and refresh workflows with BIMcloud keep the shared model current for all team members.
• Simple project submission: Streamlined publishing to shared online locations—no waiting on manual uploads.
• Revit interoperability: Direct RVT import/export for coordination and model referencing as non-editable content.
• Open protocols: Connect to CDE solutions (e.g., Aconex) using buildingSMART-defined open standards.

Automation & data exchange

• Workflow automation with Python: Build command chains and automation scripts from outside Archicad using higher-level programming.
• Smarter consultant data export: Export option set properties to Excel for accurate and consistent information input into the BIM model.

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