Unleash your creativity with powerful, 3D data-driven tools that let you do what you do best: design great buildings. Model any shape from basic to complex elements. Connect your algorithmic design tool to your BIM model. One click automatically sends high-quality documentation sets to multiple audiences quickly and easily.
Explore the full spectrum of design scenarios using Archicad’s modern design workflow. The Rhino-Grasshopper-Archicad toolset fills a gap in the design process between early stage design and Building Information Modeling. Translate any shape into a full BIM element while adding algorithmic editing functionality.
Versatile Design Tools
Archicad’s versatile palette of powerful design tools puts you back in the driver’s seat. Model your project at any level — from conceptual volume model to a full Building Information Model. The sky’s the limit to your creativity!
Algorithmic Design
Unleash your creativity with the leading building information modelling software developed by architects just like you. Algorithmic design tools and large model support let you do what you do best: design great buildings.Leverage the strengths of three unique design environments — Archicad, Grasshopper and Rhino — to create forms and shapes that otherwise would be nearly impossible! This ‘live’ bi-directional connection pairs Archicad with the industry’s leading algorithmic design tools in a smooth, professional workflow. Explore design variations and create and fine-tune building details and structures using algorithms without exchanging files.
Leverage the strengths of three unique design environments — Archicad, Grasshopper and Rhino — to create forms and shapes that otherwise would be nearly impossible! This ‘live’ bi-directional connection pairs Archicad with the industry’s leading algorithmic design tools in a smooth, professional workflow. Explore design variations and create and fine-tune building details and structures using algorithms without exchanging files.
Algorithmic Design Meets BIM
Grasshopper-Archicad Live Connection
Contact your GRAPHISOFT Partner for additional information.
EcoDesigner
Enjoy the benefits of high-end building energy performance simulation and reporting without ever leaving Archicad.
Get the most out of Archicad’s built-in building energy modeling capabilities by combining the BIM model with hourly energy simulations. EcoDesigner STAR turns Building Information Models into multiple thermal zone Building Energy Models, making low and net-zero energy building design easy. Evaluate your building model’s precise energy performance in any climate or location in the world. Monitor your entire project’s energy performance to control and optimize each space independently. A full collaboration workflow and smooth data export from Archicad make local energy code compliance a snap.
Contact your GRAPHISOFT Partner for additional information and availability.
Model-driven Documentation
Produce fast, accurate, high-quality deliverables straight from the BIM model. Your documentation sets are always up-to-date and ready to be issued because they’re derived from your model.
Fine-tune the look and feel of your documentation in Archicad depending on your audience — whether you’re getting ready for a competition, or a meeting with a client, journalist or contractor — you’ll love the special effects of the massing diagram, urban analysis diagram and exploded 3D detail to name just a few. And contractors will appreciate 3D representations of your designs in addition to the traditional detail and shop drawings — because builders love 3D, too!
Publishing
Leave the paperwork to us! Complete ‘out-of-the- box’ documentation sets, combined with a powerful, one-click publishing workflow that complies with local BIM requirements, means you can spend more time on your designs and less time worrying about documentation.