AllPlan

honoluludesktop · 2 Nov 2010, 20:38

Don't you just love sites that don't publish the cost of their product? Anyone know if the phases of work are truly seamless?

Concept drawing.

Model generated from plan.

Production drawings.

arail1 · 3 Nov 2010, 02:04

@honoluludesktop said:

Don't you just love sites that don't publish the cost of their product?

When the cost is not posted I know for a fact that I can't afford it.

Mike Lucey · 3 Nov 2010, 08:22

AllPlan has been around for a long time, obviously a good application BTW, I remember looking up the price some time back, in the same region as a high spec ACad seat, I think!

Mike Lucey · 3 Nov 2010, 08:39

...... further.

The retail price for Allplan BIM 2008 Architecture is €5,995 or $9,500, a lot but you get what you pay for in most cases except in the case of SketchUp Pro .... you get a lot more

Here is a good AllPlan review covering all the bells and whistles http://www.aecbytes.com/review/2008/AllplanBIMArch.html and here is a PDF promo sheet http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CC0QFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nemetschek.eu%2Fsolutions%2Farchitecture.html%3Fno_cache%3D1%26cid%3D713%26did%3D84%26sechash%3D95168ca0&ei=4hvRTPyZAYne4Aak7Lz0DA&usg=AFQjCNG1zZ6y5A0-uY5AVbbhh5KuSM-h3A&sig2=2OnzMwyoNVK1jIyduKkxHg

BTW, they say, 'Using the STL, VRML and SKP file formats, 3D models can be printed out or
transferred into free-access programs like Google SketchUp and GoogleEarth. STLfiles can be imported directly into Allplan'

Mike

Anssi · 3 Nov 2010, 18:13

I don't know how Allplan has been getting on since the merger of Nemetschek with Graphisoft, as it is a directly competitive product to Archicad. The version I saw years ago was, I think, the first for Windows, and it was then a somewhat clumsy port-the software had by then existed for years in Unix, had a different interface from anything else, and a file format consisting of a plethora of folders and files.

Anssi

utiler · 3 Nov 2010, 22:37

I'm with you Anssi.

Nemetschek now owns Vectorworks, Allplan and ArchiCAD. I can't see why they would want to push such similar BIM products....

torben.wadlinger · 6 Nov 2010, 23:21

Well, I am a user of Allplan for fifteen years or more and I can say Allplan is a great peace of junk. It's very expensive, it's complicated und there is only a rudiment of a virtual building. The best about Allplan is the money they spend in advertising.

So, why I'm so rude? Very easy! Yes, you can build a virtual model and feed it with data. But all functions to get a benefit out of your model are only half developed. There are a lot of known bugs which are not fixed for years and after a main release there are certain new bugs in functions, which worked properly before (e.g. in version 2008 the dimensioning tool was fine, in version 2009 it took a service release to fix it). In the german nemetschek allplan forum are a lot of dissapointed users. They all stay with Allplan, because they paid so much money (and my boss, too) until now and they all HOPE that the bugs get fixed in the next main release. From my point of view I can say: Allplan is far away from a modern BIM-based CAD. The only usable and payable BIM-based CAD I know are ArchiCAD and Revit.

Torben