Artlantis 4.5 for Archicad is Shipping

Site Insertion – a radically new approach for integrating models within the real site

BUDAPEST, December 19, 2002 – Graphisoft®, a leading provider of design and building information management solutions, announced today the shipping of Artlantis 4.5 for Archicad. Building on its unique way of revealing innovative technology through an intuitive and smooth user interface, Artlantis 4.5 introduces some much anticipated and powerful features. The latest release of Artlantis® Render is a boon for Archicad® users. Seamlessly integrated into the Archicad workflow, Artlantis 4.5 for Archicad provides the optimal solution for professional rendering.

“Its user-friendliness, efficiency and solid technical performance have made Artlantis the rendering solution of choice for Archicad users worldwide,” says Stewart Oldroyd, Graphisoft’s VP of World Wide Sales.

Besides the new tool for precisely inserting projects in a background photo with an astounding simplicity and only a few clicks, Artlantis 4.5 also features Parallel Views for photo-quality rendering of elevations, sections or site plans. More than 50 new Billboard Objects, like people, vegetation, signs, enrich scenes with just a simple drag and drop, as easily as inserting a shader, and you can interactively manipulate them in the preview window.

Including support for the newest operating systems: Mac OS X and Windows XP, and with its state-of-the-art imaging technology, Artlantis 4.5 offers a new opportunity for a more powerful way to approach the reality of their projects.

More information about the product is available at www.graphisoft.com. Artlantis 4.5 is available in major languages like English, German, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Hungarian through Graphisoft’s worldwide Distributor Partners, as a new license and soon also as an update version. Artlantis 4.5 runs on Windows 98, 2000, NT, ME and MacOS 8.6-9.2, OS X.