In the UK, Graphisoft experimented with giving away free use of ArchiCAD licences for six months. “2020 has been our best year ever,” he told AEC Magazine, “We have high aspirations and expectations for 2021 and beyond.” Graphisoft also offered free access to its BIMcloud service (which was an additional subscription) to enable remote collaboration between even more distributed teams.ĭespite the pandemic, Graphisoft’s CEO, Huw Roberts remains buoyant. When the impact of COVID was better understood, Graphisoft introduced free emergency licences for customers whose staff, suddenly working from home, had difficulties accessing licences located on company networks. If anything, the pandemic has seen us rely on technology more than ever.

But hopefully we can all now find the unmute button in Microsoft Teams. We have a lot to thank the cloud for and probably all have different perspectives on future IT infrastructure, collaborative tools, offices and digitisation. It’s somewhat reassuring to see annual releases come out from key software developers delivering on the continued evolution of design tools, indicating their customers are still managing to conduct their business, albeit in disjointed geographic locations. While we live in strange times and the ‘normal’ world still feels somewhat distant, the software industry doesn’t seem to have skipped a beat. Heavily focussed on delivering on customer requests, Graphisoft is increasingly integrating its cloud services and desktop products The new release of Archicad, Graphisoft’s flagship BIM authoring tool, is the silver anniversary (25th) edition.

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