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Prior to release 19, ArchiCAD’s multi-core capability would break up tasks and allocate those to individual cores on your workstation’s processor. However, the latest release, ArchiCAD 19 brings a whole new dimension to using the multi-cores available.īackground updating can be toggled on and off Predictive performance This parallelises the computing that’s necessary for handling large BIM models. Hungary-based developer Graphisoft has been well aware of this change and over the past four releases has been building comprehensive multi-core support into its ArchiCAD BIM platform. Next generation tools will get acceleration from parallelisation of processes not clock cycles.

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Looking forward, software that does not utilise multi-cores could actually stagnate in terms of performance as the next generation of processors from Intel will have more cores but single threaded performance may not increase significantly. Neither the complexity of models nor the advances of processor architectures were originally planned for in the current generation of applications and many software developers have failed to fully utilise multi core processors, instead relying on a single processor core to do most of the heavy lifting.

In general the industry is creaking under the combined effect of big data shoehorned into ‘old’ BIM software. Speed is one of the biggest issues in BIM today and CAD managers have to spend their time working out strategies to handle large unwieldy datasets to keep projects on track. This move has driven us back to trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of our workstations. Just when we started thinking we had more than enough power on the desktop, and file exchange ‘just worked’, the industry moved to BIM, which combines 3D geometry, proprietary databases, parametric constraints and rich layers of metadata, requiring lots of RAM and processing power. Even back in the good old days of 2D CAD, drafters wanted the latest Intel x86 workstations, with ‘masses’ of RAM (4MB) and powerful graphics cards, albeit ones capable of providing only SVGA in 256 colours. Speed is something that designers have always striven for with their tools. Tabbed workspaces make it much easier to flip between sections, model view, drawing view, render or elevations

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