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At Rill Architects we run ArchiCAD on macOS. If you work at Rill, this is your stuff. If you don't, but you work in ArchiCAD, you may find something interesting. Anybody else, I don't know.
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# A Development...

Graphisoft will be acquired by Nemetschek AG of Germany. Nemetschek makes the VB-oriented Allplan. They are also the parent company of Vectorworks, the only other semi-serious CAD offering for the Mac, and Maxon, who make the extremely serious Cinema4D and, in turn, the MaxonForm blobby add-on for AC. They also appear to have money.

I have no intelligent observation to make about this, but it's certainly interesting. In one corner we will have a rack of capable European 3D software, in the other, the capable Revit hanging off the side of the Autodesk etch-a-sketch-a-drome. And in the third, the charming and youthful Sketchup, whose models are relatively information-free, but whose parent does nothing but model information.

-James 2006-12-22-1202