SMALL INTERFACE CHANGES
Apart from thematic feature developments and performance improvements, ARCHICAD 20 contains a number of fixes, UI changes and renamed controls, all aimed at improving your user experience in small but useful ways. These include the following.
Building Material Name and Surface Name criteria now available in Find & Select (was previously in IES only)
Grass Rendering Option no longer uses separate antialiasing settings; a very high antialiasing quality is used by default.
Use this option to display the dimension text only, without any lines. This checkbox is available for linear, radial and angle dimensions, to comply with some local standards.
You can display a reference line (on-screen only) for this type of dimension as an aid in editing: turn it on at View > On-Screen View Options > Dimension Reference Lines.
In ARCHICAD 20, the Save as BIMx command is no longer available. Instead, use the File > Publish as BIMx Hyper-model command or the Save Hyper-model option from the Navigator Publisher Map.
Both workflows were available in earlier versions. However, as of AC 20, when you publish a BIMx Hyper-model (*.bimx), you now have full control within ARCHICAD over the Render mode (including GI) and background for each 3D item (view or camera path) contained in the BIMx Hyper-model.
You can now browse for and locate IFC files referenced by a BCF file imported as a Mark-Up entry. This extra step is useful, for example, if the original composite elements were exploded at export: this way, the exploded parts will be identified as the original element.
To make ARCHICAD’s default menu structure more logical, and to group related commands together, we have renamed and reorganized some of the menus. Some of the main changes:
Whenever you do an Undo or Redo, an on-screen temporary message appears to let you know that the action has been carried out.
In the Composite Structures dialog, the first contour now indicates it’s the Outside/Top face, while the last indicates it’s the Inside/Bottom face, in reference to Walls and Slabs. Previously there was no indication which side was which.
The Info Box “Element” panel for Library Parts has been tidied up, with Empty Opening and Create/Edit stair now in the popup menu.
On Mac, thumbnail views, such as in Object Settings, now smoothly scroll, no longer jumping from one row to another.
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Multiple Stories can now be selected in the Story Settings dialog to allow Height to Next and show/hide Story levels to be edited for multiple floors at once. Also, multiple stories can be deleted at one time without having to select each story one at a time. Especially useful during early design phases of multi-level buildings.
Under Work Environment, Tracker and Coordinate Input, the Tracker (and therefore Element Info Tag if using Tracker colors) can have a separate Frame color. Also the settings have been tidied up to be clearer.
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