Archicad Studio

Empowering
solo architects
and local teams

Design confidently as a solo architect with Archicad Studio, collaborate effortlessly with your local team on-premise with BIMcloud Basic, and impress clients with outstanding 3D walkthroughs through BIMx Pro.

Harbor Hideaway©The Up Studio, theupstudio.com, Photo: Alan Tansey

Achieve more with Archicad Studio

by transitioning from 2D drafts to intelligent, data-rich 3D BIM models and automatically updating your model and documentation.

through real-time BIMcloud Basic collaboration, ensuring seamless coordination across project phases.

by integrating Archicad’s AI Visualizer to test design alternatives in seconds.

with BIMx Pro’s portable 3D models, enabling real-time feedback and approvals while presenting your design via enjoyable interactive 3D walkthroughs

via advanced IFC-based open design, ensuring seamless data exchange with structural and MEP teams.

with our comprehensive learning ecosystem offering on-demand tutorials, online courses, and supportive Graphisoft Learn and Community.

We consider Archicad to be one of the most powerful tools we use. BIMx gives us the ability to link the 3D and two-dimensional export. It can be a complex virtual model – but everything synchs. This technology excites me, because it affords us the ability to build the home virtually, and have the client fall in love with the design, and our concepts.

John Patrick Winberry
The Up Studio founding partner and architect

The tools to bring collaborators together

3D BIM software with an intuitive, user-friendly interface and extension possibilities for architects and designers at all levels.

  • Parametric 3D modeling tools
  • Automated documentation
  • Building information management
  • AI Visualizer
  • and many more…

Share Archicad projects on BIMcloud Basic for efficient collaboration in Teamwork. Perfect for office-based teams using local servers.

  • Browser-based management of projects and users
  • Simplified settings and permissions

Unify project communication with a single BIMx file across mobile and desktop platforms.

  • Hyper-linked 2D drawings and 3D models with element-level data
  • Project revisioning with markups for team collaboration
  • Cloud service to host, update and share models
  • and many more…

Graphisoft Learn

Live and on-demand training

Provides innovative, flexible learning programs to help you master Graphisoft solutions. Skill up quickly with on-demand and live training sessions designed for all levels. Skill up quickly with

Graphisoft Community

Forums, Articles, Challenges and more

Get expert help, connect with peer users, easily share solutions, and access unique content created by Graphisoft experts inside and outside the company.

Graphisoft Support

Technical support, troubleshooting

Even if you are a solo architect, as an Archicad user, you’re never alone. Tap into the knowledge of dedicated support from Graphisoft and overcome any technical obstacle.

Choose the plan that fits your needs

Frequently asked questions

GENERAL

Archicad Studio, a complete Building Information Modeling (BIM) solution, is a subscription plan for solo practitioners and small firms looking for tailored solutions for independent work or local teamwork.  It brings all the benefits of a commercial Archicad license to a subscription platform at an affordable price.  Archicad Studio supports Teamwork locally and speaks your language. Archicad Studio along with Archicad Collaborate is the default subscription conversion offer for Archicad perpetual license holders. 

  • Standard commercial Archicad in your local language — Standalone desktop app for macOS and Windows.  
  • Local Teamwork with BIMcloud Basic.
  • Subscription services and benefits — Maximize the value of your subscription with exclusive tools, training, support, and services such as the BIMx Pro and AI Visualizer
  • Cloud subscription licenses, applying the floating software license approach. 
  • No cloud-based collaboration solutions like BIMcloud SaaS
  • No access to cloud-based tools except AI Visualizer. 
  • No MEP Designer starting from Archicad 29. Archicad 28 users have the opportunity to try out this feature that is part of Archicad Collaborate. 
  • The International (INT) language version is not included in the package; it is only in local languages.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT, COMPATIBILITY, UPDATES

Archicad subscription users will have access to training materials on Graphisoft Learn and Graphisoft Community, as well as technical support lines.  

As part of our conversion program’s benefits, we are providing compatibility back to Archicad 8.1 by leaving converted licenses as Archicad 25 perpetual licenses in your hands.  This way, you can open/edit projects that are up to 15 years old.

Licensing is about access to software, not access to content created by the software.  Archicad runs on cloud  licenses and can open projects created with Archicad’s physical key-based licenses and vice versa.  The same is true for Archicad’s perpetual vs. subscription licenses.  Thus, companies with a mixed license pool (perpetual and subscription) can open, edit, and work on the same project.

Naturally, subscription products provide more frequent updates for license holders because they allow more agile delivery of innovation and bug fixes.  This, however, doesn’t mean “forced” updates—the control (and responsibility) of updating remains with you.  This also supports users who prefer to keep their differently licensed Archicad on the same build to ensure compatibility. 

BIMCLOUD OPTIONS

BIMcloud Basic can be used by any Archicad user who needs basic collaboration and communication between team members.  This solution is included with Archicad and allows the user to install it on a dedicated in-house server. In contrast, BIMcloud Software as a Service is an excellent solution for any size firm that wants to collaborate via the cloud and eliminate the expense of in-house hardware and IT while enjoying the benefits of high-speed servers and backed-up data.  Not to mention additional features like mark-ups in BIMx. Find more details in the comparison list.

You can buy standalone BIMcloud SaaS licenses/subscriptions separately or purchase Archicad Collaborate.