An enjoyable and upbeat discussion. This seems better than the Revit and Autodesk methods which are endless rentals where you never actually own the package and ultimately pay more than an outright purchase. It was a great opportunity to prove our ability to exchange data with other software platforms using IFC, DGN and DWG and DXF formats. The marketing and rolling demonstration roadshow for Archicad is relentless in the UK - must be costing them a bit. A journalist recently asked me why I maintain this site.
General message is 'sales up, profits down' and a heartening increase in foreign earnings.
It seems to take about a month for the online version to appear on the cadserver.co.uk website but most UK Architects will receive a free copy anyway. It looked even more impressive viewed up close. Thur 24.07.01 Service release 2 for v16.2 - gives you a nice reassuring feeling when the first service release appears for the latest version and there are very few fixes within it. Fri 13.07.01 v16.2 received today - as usual many more things have been added than are described in the 'What's new guide'. The most immediately useful feature is the 'docking' option for the animation window.