Graphisoft QuickNews 3.09 / September 2003

Graphisoft Launches Next Phase of its Evolution with Announcement of New CEO, Dominic Gallello

Graphisoft has hired Dominic Gallello to be its new CEO. Mr. Gallello, a veteran in the design software industry, brings to Graphisoft an exceptional track record of customer focus and the ability to dramatically increase revenue and market share. With Mr. Gallello at the helm, Graphisoft intends to pursue a strategy of aggressive growth. With ArchiCAD, the most mature 3D CAD design software available, and ArchiFM, the only computer-aided Facility Management package in the world to achieve the Microsoft 'Designed for XP' logo, Graphisoft is now in a unique position to deliver a truly comprehensive design, construction & FM package to its Customers.

Read more about Mr. Gallello's appointment here.

Graphisoft Hires Mark Sawyer to Head World Wide Field Operations

Mark Sawyer has joined Graphisoft as the new VP of Worldwide Field Operations. Mr. Sawyer has an outstanding track record of establishing and leading global sales operations in the AEC market and of boosting revenues.

"We are delighted to have such a high caliber individual join our management team. Mark brings tremendous experience, both in architectural product development and driving global sales organization," said Dominic Gallello, CEO of Graphisoft. "Customer and partner success, while aggressively driving the revenue line will be job one for Mark."

Find out more about Graphisoft's new VP of Worldwide Field Operations here.

Strategic Alliance of Graphisoft and Synergis to Provide Advanced Visualization and Data Integration to the United States Coast Guard

Homeland Security Agency Adopts Graphisoft's ArchiCAD and Synergis Adept to Support its Regional Strategic Plan

Graphisoft and Synergis Technologies, Inc., developer of Synergis Adept, a leading engineering data management solution, are cooperating to provide their joint customers with a complete system for the visualization, integration and management of building data. Among the institutions in their joint customer base, the companies will serve the United States Coast Guard's Office of Civil Engineering, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, with an interoperable system for its Regional Strategic Planning (RSP) initiative, which is designed to replace traditional master planning, and form a bridge between strategic planning and the execution of tactical programs. "We needed a tool that would enable us to bring ArchiCAD's Virtual Building Information into our document control process," said Lt. Cmdr. Jack Dempsey of the Office of Civil Engineering at the United States Coast Guard. "ArchiCAD generates and stores key building information, and Adept helps us manage those data to integrate decision-making for our regional strategic planning efforts. These two companies offer proven technologies that work well together." Read the full story.

Georgia, USA, Architectural Firm Selects ArchiCAD Over Competitor Products Autodesk Revit and Microstation

Architectural firm A. Vincent Pope & Associates has selected ArchiCAD ® as its primary tool for building design and modeling. The firm selected Graphisoft's ArchiCAD after reviewing products from Autodesk and Bentley.

Vincent Pope & Associates provides visualization studies for its clients, making the ability to design and document work in 3D a vital component of its services. The Georgia-based firm sought a software package that would empower its staff to create a virtual model of a building, without adding complicated or unnecessary steps to the design process. The firm evaluated several different CAD software products, including Autodesk ® Revit ® and Microstation ® from Bentley Systems, and determined that ArchiCAD's Virtual Building? model was the only software that would fully meet its needs. Read the full story here.

ArchiCAD 8 R3/v3 Versions Now Available

The Greek, Norwegian and Swedish versions of ArchiCAD 8 R3/v3 have shipped.

The ArchiCAD 8 R3/v3 university student versions in the following languages have also shipped: English-International, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

For details of where to obtain these latest and all other versions, contact your local reseller .

ArchiCAD 8 is currently available in 21 localized versions, plus the international English version, and is released in 13 different languages. All the latest releases of Graphisoft products will be announced here in QuickNews.

ArchiCAD University Europe, Nottingham, UK, 3-6 Sept. 2003

More than 100 people from many parts of the world attended the successful and lauded ACUE 2003. There was a wealth of workshops, speeches and social activities on offer. David Nicholson-Cole and his team should be congratulated for their efforts in making the entire program such a great success. Feedback from attendees is almost universally positive.

A comprehensive report on the entire event can be seen here.

arkiTech Australia 2002 Prize Winner Announced

Australian Graphisoft partner arkiTech Pty Ltd and Multi-CAD Magazine held a nationwide competition for architectural students who use Graphisoft's ArchiCAD software.

Our congratulations go to the winner, Michael Chan, a student of the University of New South Wales. Michael's prize is a trip for two people to London, a generous cash prize, plus a student version of ArchiCAD 8. Michael chose to submit a design for the Graphisoft Park Conference Center over the Danube in Budapest.

The competition called for entrants to create architectural works documentation for a development application. Read the details of the competition here in Multi-CAD.
Entry to the arkiTech Prize was free and open to all students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning or any allied discipline in Australia. Entrants were free to choose the type of building to be designed and teams of up to three students could enter. A jury of renowned experts in the field of Australian architecture met in July 2003 to judge the qualifying entries and award the prizes.

arkiTech generously sponsored the competition's prizes. Visit the arkiTech website.

User Tech Tips

Learn great tips from your fellow ArchiCAD users in the new User Tech Tips section of the Graphisoft web site. Have you got a great tip to share? Submit it to techtip@graphisoft.hu for the chance to win a free T-shirt! Congratulations to our latest winners, Haneef Tayob for the tip on sending out only parts of a project from ArchiCAD and to Matthew Lohden for his tip on making a listing of all objects placed in a project file in ArchiCAD.

Rendering of the Month

Our congratulations go to Ivan Georgiev of Vue Jardin S.A.R.L. who is our August winner.

The images of a football stadium in Marrakech, Morocco, were part of a presentation made to FIFA for the Moroccan bid for the 2010 Football World Cup and were modelled in ArchiCAD 7.

Winners are awarded monthly based on user entries submitted to the gallery . Would you like to see your work displayed in our online gallery? We welcome submissions from all ArchiCAD users. See contest details .

ArchiCAD Discussion Groups

ArchiCAD-Talk

This discussion group provides a forum for exchanging technical advice amongst ArchiCAD users. Whether or not you've got specific questions or great suggestions to contribute, just breezing through the topics can provide useful information for building your ArchiCAD knowledge. Check out the details.

ArchiPUB

This is a more off-the-wall unofficial discussion group for ArchiCAD users, where members can virtually 'drink' their favorite tipple and discuss, well? anything. Topics recently have ranged from ACUE (see above) to beer, so it's a fairly relaxed forum ? most of the time. Potential members should go to Yahoo Groups , and check out membership details.

If you know of any other ArchiCAD/Graphisoft-related discussion groups, please send details to the editor.

Upcoming Events

Country	Date	Event	Location
The Czech Republic	October 6-8	Invex	Brno
Finland	November 7-9	ASTA	Tampere
Germany	November 6-8	Baufach	Leipzig
Ireland	November 6-8	Plan Expo	Dublin
Portugal	October 22-26	Concreta 2003	Porto
Switzerland	Starting 29 Sept.	ArchiCAD Roadshow	Various cities
USA	October 19-21	IFMA World Workplace	Dallas

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

QuickNews August Edition

The release of the August edition of QuickNews coincided with the circulation of the Blaster and related viruses, which blighted many companies' networks. Graphisoft was unaffected, but many Webmasters responded to these viruses by setting their firewalls & virus protection programs to reject any mail with 'suspicious' content. A large number of the mailings for the August edition were returned as undeliverable. If you did not receive August's QuickNews , this was the reason. Hopefully, things will return to normal this month.

Subscriber Milestone

Tuesday, 23rd September was not just the day after the autumn equinox; it was also the day that QuickNews gained its 1500 th 'live' subscriber. Brendon Reid of Orbit Solutions in Melbourne, Australia was the lucky guy, because to mark the occasion, he was awarded a Graphisoft ArchiCAD folding chair in which to spend all the time saved by using ArchiCAD's streamlined features.

After hearing of his good fortune, Brendon said of his firm: ' With offices in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, Orbit Solutions is fundamentally a building design practice, but also offers other specialist services such as visualization, ArchiCAD training, GDL programming and consulting to other professionals? ArchiCAD is our tool of choice, and having used it since version 4.1, we're continuously trying to push its boundaries.'

With the Australian summer fast approaching, Brendon can now push ArchiCAD's boundaries sitting down comfortably!

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