I also am concerned that as a software developer Graphisoft is becoming less and less transparent with its roadmap. It's almost as if it is distracted from its core client base, chasing different clients rather than satisfying its current ones. Maybe Archicad 26 is Graphisoft’s mid-life crisis? As a passionate user for over 22 years, I really hope that they can turn the corner and produce a great Archicad 27 in 2023. Is Graphisoft suffering from a mid-life crisis? How good would it have been if Archicad 26 was the best release ever, that could have been celebrated as much as this major milestone? For a software company, and the challenging start they had behind the iron curtain, this is a great achievement. What is sad, is that this year Graphisoft celebrate their 40 th Birthday.

It is a real disappointment for me that the focus of development on this release appears to be more focused on Graphisoft’s new target client, ‘Structural Engineers’ rather than their long-standing customer base, Architects. I hope that next year I will be able to write an article with a top 5 feature list like I used to write when there were enough features to choose from.

There weren’t even enough features in this release to do the usual 1-hour new features segment as part of the launch event. This year I honestly have to say that I have no excitement with this release and question whether I see any value whatsoever in moving from Archicad 25 to Archicad 26. In the past when a new release of Archicad comes out I like to write a blog post on the new features that I know will provide a great benefit to my business and the overall Archicad user community.

Archicad 25 update