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• BIM Experience Kit Winner April 2008
  

  Graphisoft Announces the April Winner of Its “BIM Experience Kit” Competition
  Budapest, July 30, 2008 – Corben Architect sees potential with ArchiCAD, thanks to BIM Experience Kit.
  Corben Architects has been a long term user of VectorWorks and all its previous incarnations. Whilst it has been a fantastic 2D tool for us over the years, we rarely explored its 3D capabilities” said Mohit Keni, Director of Corben Architects, Sydney, Australia.
  
  “Our initial exposure to ArchiCAD via the demonstration by Graphisoft and the BIM Experience Kit provided us very valuable insight into the BIM concept. It quickly became evident to us that this was the way forward. We have now been using ArchiCAD for a couple of months and it has already given us the ability to accurately model our projects, resolve our designs to a high level, improve our productivity, keep better control over the documentation, improve creativity and, last but not the least, allow us to provide the full 3D experience to our clients. The interactive training guide has been very helpful to us in making this transition relatively troublefree. Overall it has proved to be a great asset over the short period of time that we have used it and we are confident it will provide us with the edge and strengthen our position in the marketplace in years to come.”

- Budapest, July 30, 2008

• Announcing ArchiCAD 12 
  

  Graphisoft announced today that ArchiCAD® 12, the next version of its award-winning Virtual Building™ modeling solution, will be shipped on both Windows® and Macintosh® platforms in July. ArchiCAD’s annual release cycle continues to focus on providing enhancements to help users win more business, design more creatively and be more productive.

  "Beyond delivering powerful new 3D design tools, we are also introducing an innovative 3D documentation capability, which has the potential to revolutionize communication in the building industry", said Miklos Szövenyi-Lux, Director of Product Management, Graphisoft. "And on multi-core computers, operations such as view generation of sections and elevations from the Virtual Building Model experience a dramatic performance increase."
  
  The Australian editions will be available starting in mid-July. For more news click here.
  

- Budapest, June 16, 2008

• ARTLANTIS 2.0 Has arrived! 
  The key new features enhance Artlantis' lighting, photo-realism, rendering quality, user-friendly interface, and creative possibilities.
  With this new concept of Full radiosity, Artlantis improves all lighting conditions, and offers Real sky simulation and Automatic light adjustment. Artlantis' new options include Integrated image post-processing, enabling users to modify the effects of a rendered image without additional image editing software. Thanks to a new Shader creator, users can now create their own shaders and access a Rich Media collection of shaders and 3D objects.
  Artlantis family introduces 5 new media volumes: 3D Animated People, 2D Bilboard People, Cars, Stones and Marble Floor.
  
  Contact your local Graphisoft representative for more information on pricing on new licences and upgrades.
  

- Sydney, May 2008

• BIM Experience Kit a 2008 Stevie Award Finalist in 'Training' Category
  Boston, MA - May 21, 2008 – Graphisoft's ArchiCAD BIM Experience Kit is a finalist in the 6th annual "American Business Awards" competition, known as the business world's own Oscars.
  The ArchiCAD BIM Experience Kit <experiencebim.com> is a Stevie finalist in the Interactive Multimedia Training Category for its unique approach in helping architectural users of 2D CAD become familiar with working in 3D building information modeling (BIM). The free kit combines a full-functioning version of ArchiCAD with an innovative multimedia training tutorial that guides users through the modeling of an actual Frank Lloyd Wright-designed project: the Massaro House in upstate New York. The kit also includes testing to help support the learning process.

- Sydney, May 2008

• NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS 2008 Building Designers Association of Australia
  

Graphisoft wish to congratulate all the category winners in the year National Design Awards - Building Designers Association of Australia, in particular the following Graphisoft customers:

Dane Design Australia
DESIGN EXCELLENCE WINNER
Category 2 - Residential Buildings 251 - 350 Sq.M
Category 3 - Residential Buildings 351 - 450 Sq.M

Kidd & Co Design
Category 4 - Residential Buildings over 450 Sq.M
Category 5 - Residential Alterations & Additions under $175k

Concept 2 Completion Design
Category 8 - Multi-residential - up to 6 dwellings

Arc Seven.1
Category 9 - Multi-residential - over to 6 dwellings

Clever Design
Category 16 - Environmental & energy efficient buildings

We think it’s no accident that almost half of this year’s awards have been won by building designers that use ArchiCAD in their practice!