Below is the official press release followed by some other things of note.
BUDAPEST, June 23, 2015 — GRAPHISOFT®, the global leader in Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions for architects, announced today that ARCHICAD® 19’s global rollout process has begun.
Shipping starts with the US, UK/Ireland and International versions on June 24, followed by the German version on June 30 — the first four of 27 local versions, which — according to a busy release schedule — will all reach the market by the end of Q3 2015. For specific shipping dates in the various markets, please contact your local ARCHICAD reseller.
For more information about ARCHICAD 19, please visit www.graphisoft.com/archicad.
About GRAPHISOFT
GRAPHISOFT® ignited the BIM revolution in 1984 with ARCHICAD®, the industry first BIM software for architects. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as its revolutionary BIMcloud™, the world’s first real-time BIM collaboration environment, EcoDesigner™, the world’s first fully BIM-integrated “GREEN” design solution and BIMx®, the world’s leading mobile app for BIM visualization. GRAPHISOFT has been a part of the Nemetschek Group since its acquisition in 2007. Visit archicad.com to see the most important milestones in ARCHICAD’s 30-year history.
Bonus Information:
- If you are on SSA and use the USA version, you should have received an e-mail containing a link to download ARCHICAD 19 USA.
- If you are on SSA and use the INT version, you probably also received an e-mail containing a link to download ARCHICAD 19 INT.
- As of June 26th, 2015, ARCHICAD 19 is also available from www.myarchicad.com for a growing number of localizations.
- Read my blog post about why you’ll want to start using ARCHICAD 19 as soon as possible. Or just as importantly, why you’ll instantly dislike working in older versions of ARCHICAD.
- A Codemeter (silver) USB key or Soft License is required to run ArchiCAD 19. Green WIBU keys do not support ArchiCAD 19. Neither will 21-pin keys. But hopefully those are all gone by now. Contact support@graphisoft.com for swapping instructions.
- I switched over to a Soft License a few months ago. Soft License is fancy for a software license that either lives on the cloud or on your computer. I love it. It’s been flawless and wonderful to not have a dongle plugged into my laptop. I can’t stress how great it is to be able to open up my laptop anywhere and run ARCHICAD without having to remember the USB key, or worrying about someone bumping into my machine and snapping the key off. Talk to your local rep. If you don’t need to constantly switch your license between machines (which is doable but potentially more annoying than with a USB key), ditch your key ASAP.
- You might recall my thoughts from ARCHICAD 18 regarding how to download your localization, and how to order a hard copy. You won’t be getting nor do you need a hard copy of ARCHICAD 19. It’s all digital now. Okay, maybe if you work at Bond Bryan Architects, you’ll want a hard copy.
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2 thoughts on “GRAPHISOFT Ships ARCHICAD 19 / Users can now download ARCHICAD 19”
Hi Jared, since Windows 10 is to be released soon too, was wondering if Archicad 19 is going to work on Windows 10? the official system requirements don’t say so….do you know anything about this?
That’s a great question. I haven’t heard anything specific, but I’m absolutely certain ARCHICAD 19 will work on Windows 10. The only question is whether it will be ready on Day 1 or not. My hunch is that soon after the release of Windows 10, we’ll see a Hotfix for ARCHICAD 17, 18, and 19 addressing compatibility issues for those versions. So my advice is assume ARCHICAD 17 through 19 will be work, but wait until the official announcement/Hotfix before upgrading to Windows 10.