Easy visualization, option management and database handling. Best customer support.

I was enlisted by Charles River Software (the original creators of Revit) in the late 1990's to be a part of their Pioneer Program. At that time I saw the potential for what BIM could do and how it would effect a better workflow for the design of buildings, large and small. After selling to AutoDesk, I looked for other sources of BIM software. I came to Archicad in version 8. At the time I used it only for a visulaization tool. I have never looked back. In 2013, I began using Archicad as my only software to produce the work I was designing, Since version 8, Archicad has simply improved every year with its ease of use, shallow learming curve, easy to use educational tools, robust data compilation, and basically the availabilty to work almost the same way as when everything was drawn by hand. Most of the work I create with Archicad has very strong resembalence to what I produced by hand prior to 1985. I have been successful in getting a couple of decent sized firms to turn away from AutoCad and begin using Archicad. Those firms say they would never go back after the experience of using such an intuitive product as Archicad. In my opinion, Archicad is the best BIM product available at a reasonable price.

Ive been an avid ArchiCAD user for decades and firmly believe it is the best software with some major exceptions.