r/ArchiCAD

I've recently started a new full-time job at a Revit-based architecture firm, which takes up my weekdays. I'm however interested in keeping up with my ArchiCAD skills, which I've used in the years prior. I'm thinking of taking up freelance work, either through Upwork or other platforms, but not sure which types of work would best suit a weekends-only schedule. Any suggestions? i.e. work requiring close coordination with team members and consultants probably wouldn't work, but perhaps modeling as-builts?

I am looking for a package of furniture for AC27 on Mac. The default library lacking a lot of basic furniture like good benches, coatracks, chairs that would make the process a lot faster. Sometimes I use Twinomotion for doing it, but it's nice when you have the possibility to make good plan drawings with furniture visible in archicad.

Any tips is welcome except al the sites that make you download every furniture separately. I am looking for a package to save time.

For context, i need this exploded file for an exam and this is the elaborate requested from the professor.

thanks to anyone who reads this

I am posting because the big PDF editors going subscription-only, plus Revu 20 reaching end of support on July 31, is a real shift in how we buy and own our markup tools, and a balanced side-by-side is hard to find. So here is mine, including where each option is the wrong call.

Stay on Bluebeam (Revu subscription / Max): still the deepest set for markup plus measurement and quantity takeoff, plus Studio for live team collaboration. If that is how you use Revu, nothing below really replaces it yet. Trade-off: Windows only now, and subscription.

Adobe Acrobat Pro: cross-platform, strong general PDF, e-sign, forms, OCR. Tends to crawl on very large CAD-heavy sheet sets. Subscription.

Foxit / PDF-XChange Editor: cheaper, capable markup. PDF-XChange has a buy-once option on Windows and is good value if cost is the main driver.

Drawboard: markup-focused, works well with a pen on Windows and tablets. Subscription.

PDF Studio (Qoppa): buy-once, cross-platform, has OCR and forms. A solid general-purpose owned-licence option.

Ncored: deliberately narrow. It opens fast and stays smooth on scroll, zoom and pan on the heavy 50-200 MB+ AutoCAD, Revit, and ArchiCAD exports that make general PDF tools stall, it does markup and page management, it has a buy-once option, and it runs on Windows and Apple Silicon Mac. It does NOT do measurement or takeoff, OCR, forms, or e-sign yet. So if you used Revu mainly to measure and pull quantities, it is not your tool. If you used it to open and mark up big sheet sets without the lag, it might be.

A real question for the sub, not rhetorical: those of you actually migrating off Revu 20, what are you moving to, and was your main Revu use measurement/takeoff or just markup and review? That changes the answer a lot, and I want to hear what is holding up in real offices.

One line of disclosure first so it is on the table: I make one of the tools further down, so discount my take accordingly, and mods, please pull this if a post like it is not welcome here.

For the full context, since I flagged that I built one of these: I am a practising architect, and Ncored came out of my own office hitting a wall opening and marking up heavy drawing sets without the program stalling. I am not here to push it (it is the wrong tool for plenty of you, see above). What I actually think is worth raising is the bigger pattern: it keeps getting harder to simply buy and own a PDF tool from the big names instead of renting one forever. Happy to answer anything.

(Pricing on all of these moves around, so verify current numbers yourselves. Individual experiences vary.)

In this example the folders are not blue and don't uptade automatically.

In this example the folders are blue and have the clone arrow marker. New sheets are automatically added to the publishing group.

On the publishing tab, I would like to create a new publishing group but with "clone folders". I want the folders from these groups to be automatically updated when I add a new sheets.

Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.