Graphisoft QuickNews 3.07 / July 2003

ArchiCAD 8 Honored by CADENCE Editors’ Choice Award

ArchiCAD 8 ‘…raises the bar on technology innovation & development quality’.

ArchiCAD 8 has received yet another award from an independent & respected CAD magazine. In the July issue of CADENCE magazine, the editorial team reviewed the products available in the world of CAD and chose 15 for their Editors' Choice Award. To be numbered among their top 15, candidate products needed to be what they considered the best products developed for the CAD industry in the previous several months that did the most to help move the industry forward. ArchiCAD 8 was one of those products! The whole story can be read here.

Former Autodesk Employee Opts for ArchiCAD 8

‘ArchiCAD 8 is a major step forward in the development of an interactive 3D and 2D intelligent piece of software for the construction industry’.

In a ringing endorsement, David Clarke, recently of Autodesk, faced with an urgent architectural task, elected instead to go for ArchiCAD 8 from Graphisoft. Clarke discusses the individual merits of many architectural CAD products before explaining exactly why he chose ArchiCAD 8. Read his reasons in CAD User magazine. An architect, Clarke rounds off his piece by saying: ‘… I enjoyed using ArchiCAD 8 - it was fun!’

Read more ArchiCAD success stories

Renderings of the Month

We celebrate a tie win for the month of June in the Rendering of the month competition. Congratulations to our June winners: L.S. Chew of Australia and the team of Aleksander Sabados and Vladimir Sefer from Serbia.

Aleksandar Sabados and Vladimir Sefer
A competition design of a building for the aged (senior home) in Valjevo, Serbia. The images were modeled in ArchiCAD 7.0.

L.S. Chew
A hotel proposal at Hafencity, Hamburg, Germany with an internal square/garden in a city block between an apartment building and the hotel. The idea of the design scheme was derived from the master planning competition (European Students Talent Award 2003, Hamburg, Habourpolis). The images were modeled in ArchiCAD 8 and rendered in Artlantis 4.5.

Winners are awarded monthly based on user entries submitted to gallery@graphisoft.hu. Would you like to see your work in our online gallery? See contest details.

Upcoming Events

Graphisoft US ArchiCAD Summer Road show

The US road show continues at the following locations in August:

August 6	Dallas, Texas
August 7	Oak Park, Illinois Raliegh, North Carolina Irvine, California
August 20	Houston, Texas Kennesaw, Georgia
August 21	Miami, Florida
August 27	Tempe, Arizona Denver, Colorado

For more information, registration and calendar of September road show locations click here.

ArchiCAD University Europe, Nottingham, UK - September 3-6

David Nicholson-Cole, author of the GDL Cookbook, has once again organized a solid training and workshop session for this year's event. The tentative schedule includes Practical 3D Modeling, Construction Layout and Documentation and also Advanced Rendering Techniques with Dwight Atkinson, author of Illustration in ArchiCAD. Find out more on the official ArchiCAD University Europe web site.

There are many other ArchiCAD 8-related events taking place worldwide. For a comprehensive listing of events, go to our Graphisoft Community Events pages.

New 3rd Party ArchiCAD 8 Training CD’s

For all those ArchiCAD 8 users wanting some extra help, a 3rd Party publisher, Design Animation, has created Virtual Tutor 8, featuring 2 CD's crammed full of multimedia content to help you get up and running with all the new features in ArchiCAD 8. For further details and pricing go to the company's homepage.

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