All the Changes in ArchiCAD 16 that we love, but won’t be Advertised
There are a lot of little tweaks in every version of ArchiCAD that don’t get top billing. Or any billing at all. Yet some of these changes are huge and exciting for us nerdy, obsessive users. There is a great list (started by ArchiCAD Hero Link Ellis) from last year on the ArchiCAD forum detailing all these unannounced changes for ArchiCAD 15. I wrote a post about it. Discover both here. I’m confident you’ll learn some cool new tricks, even though the list is a year old.
So what about ArchiCAD 16?
Here is the official changes guide for ArchiCAD 16 and a refresher on the other details of ArchiCAD 16. But what are all the undiscovered and unmentioned tweaks and changes to the latest version? I’ve started a post on the forum. Have you noticed another tweak, good or bad, that’s not on the list in the forum? Go and add it. Now before you forget.
Here’s One I’ve found
The Z-buffer Rendering Engine is gone. While doing a little research for a post I’m writing for the BIM Engine Blog, I noticed the list of rendering engines was a little shorter than I was used to. I’ve searched around the Internet and haven’t found one mention of this quiet disappearance. I’m not sure how many people used the Z-buffer Rendering Engine, so I doubt it will be missed. But this is a great example of one of those unadvertised changes to ArchiCAD 16.
And One I heard from an ArchiCAD developer
Now you can click on a special snap point for the first point of a split command. Open up ArchiCAD 16 and try it on a special snap point on a wall. Ever notice how frustrating it was to NOT be able to do that?
Okay and here’s one I don’t love
Empty Opening (ArchiCAD 15) has become Simple Window Opening (ArchiCAD 16). I haven’t explored enough to know the differences, but… it did mess up my window schedules that were excluding Empty Opening. It’s a quick fix. Fortunately I caught it before printing. But still a little annoying. Ah… all the little things that change.
Who’s found some others? Add them to the post in the forum…
The ArchiCAD 15 list spawned 6 pages of discussion. I’ll be disappointed if we can’t match that. Here’s the link to the user generated list of undocumented changes in V16.
Patrick
I didn’t catch the empty opening change when I was setting up our new (16) template, I’ll have to put that on the list of refinements for our 16 template… thanks.
Jared Banks
Awesome. Glad to see the list is already paying off. I happened to open a 15 file in 16 to use for a video or blog post that’s half done on schedules and saw the window schedule had too many entries.
Dave Olufs
When working with two or more AC16 files, one can access them from navigator palette upper left button…
Before one had to select the AC dock symbol to go to another open AC file… BUT I could be wrong. I don’t remember seeing that option.
Jared Banks
Dave, I believe that has been there since we could open multiple instances of ArchiCAD (so v10). Too lazy, er busy, at the moment to open up a couple of ArchiCADs to see if there’s been a change to what’s available there…
Dave Olufs
I did say I could have been wrong. What a surprise but I’ll keep looking for unadvertised changes…
Jared Banks
🙂 If you look through the list of changes in v15, I’m pretty sure a lot of us (me included) found features that we thought were new, but were just new to us. But that’s fine. If it takes a new release for you to see with new eyes some old features that you had previously ignored… then they might as well be new features!
Tim Ball
The project info list can no longer be sorted alphabetically so if you use auto text extensively your list is always in the order you entered the custom data
It’s a real pain if you have long lists!
Jared Banks
Ouch. That is an annoying change. I just noticed yesterday that project info has been reorganized. I like the separations now, but I agree, the loss of alphabetical listing is a shame.
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