Quality Control

We identified quality control as one area requiring attention. It’s going to take a few months to turn this weakness into a strength, but we have outlined a path to achieve this. At the end of the road, we want to take pride in the quality and dependability of our software. Some hard decisions we

Components Stored as Presets

Each component is now a logical group of settings including Model, Materials and Appearance properties. So it makes sense to be able to save the complete bunch of settings as a preset. So when you choose a preset tile roof cladding, you are selecting not only the cladding type and dimensions, but also the plan

Logically Grouped Settings

Until now, Materials and Appearance have been separated from the rest of the settings. For instance, you could navigate to the Cladding page of Roof Coverings, and choose a cladding type and dimensions. But to set the material and pens for the cladding, you would have to navigate first to the Materials page, then to

Attribute Presets

Attribute presets replace individual pens, fills and line types. This provides a number of benefits: 1. Set default attributes Save an attribute presets with your preferred pens, fills and line-types and every object that uses that attribute preset will now use your preferences. This is a very quick way to set your default attributes. 2.

Farewell to the Roundel

There has been a drive to simplify the Settings dialog wherever possible, and maintain consistency across all library parts. As a result certain items have been eliminated. These items include the roundels that used to appear on the left of standard groups of settings, and the blue star beside preset controls.

Farewell to Global Settings – Welcome Back to Local Control

The first change you will notice is that the ‘Full Detail – Quick Settings’ control has vanished. This control was introduced a couple of years back, with the intention of making it easier to use the tool at a basic level (Quick Settings mode), but provide extra control if required (Full Detail). The concept seemed

Changes are Afoot…

Over the past several weeks we have been working on the Coverings tool, fixing bugs and making the tool work better. An interim release is imminent, so now is a good time to tell you about what improvements have been made. We plan to implement these changes throughout the tools over the next year, so

From the Developers: Update for 15

We have released and update of nearly all of the tools for ArchiCAD 15. Updates have been made to Bracing, Cabinets, Coverings, Doors+Windows, Detail Elements, Keynotes, Sites+Massing, Stairs and Wall Frames. And the Planting tool has had a complete overhaul. Check out the release reports here. We did discover some isolated issues with Doors+Windows following

Tags: Update

From the Developers – Keynotes Interim Released

We’ve just released a new interim of Keynotes. Keynotes can now import and export Tab Separated Text files.  This means you can use what ever database or spreadsheet application you want (as long as it can save out Tab Separated Text files, which is most of them). Inside Keynotes you can assign what information should

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From the Developers: Renovations & Coverings

Well it has been a mammoth effort, but we have done it.  The entire Wall Coverings add-on has been rewritten. We needed to do this before we could update wall coverings to allow for renovation, (allowing for renovation was the easy part). We have done some extensive testing of the new code and it is

Tags: interim release, Renovation