Stay focused, design more
With powerful improvements to automated design, documentation, and collaboration workflows, and professional out-of-the-box visualization solutions, Archicad 26 lets you focus on what you do best: design great buildings.
Discover what’s new
Get familiar with how Archicad 26, BIMx, and BIMcloud enhancements help you design, visualize, collaborate, and document more efficiently.
Design
Spend less time on project management and more time on design — Archicad 26 helps your team stay organized and files streamlined even as the size and complexity of projects continue to grow.
Discover Attribute Management
Archicad’s advanced attribute management keeps busy architecture offices streamlined by organizing projects accurately.
Faster Project Navigation
No more endless scrolling! Quickly and easily find specific items with the new Navigator Search for faster navigation inside of a project.
Enhanced Surface Overrides
Faster modeling and documentation of openings with fewer workarounds thanks to greater control over openings’ surfaces and enhanced Graphic Override options.
Customized kitchen cabinetry
First introduced with Archicad 25, now you can quickly and easily customize the look and style of kitchen cabinetry while still meeting local and company standards and requirements — all without manual workarounds.
Improved 2D editing
Based on user feedback, the efficient and user-friendly 2D editing enhancement in Archicad 26 saves time and helps maintain consistency among interactions when using Radial Stretch of circles and ellipses.
Visualize
Faster client approvals — Create stunning visualizations quickly and easily thanks to professional out-of-the-box solutions, modern textures and furniture, and powerful BIMx web and desktop viewer updates.
New Professional Textures
Engaging, modern visualizations make client approvals fast and easy thanks to the fresh content added to the Additional Surface Catalog.
Available for Graphisoft Forward and SSA subscribers only.
Optimized Archicad export and enhanced BIMx web and desktop viewers
Archicad 26 introduces powerful 3D model export with a simpler, more informative Publisher workflow and easier control over texture size to optimize file size, and export time. In addition, BIMx Web Viewer and BIMx Desktop Viewer have a new, more realistic visualization with on-the-fly rendering, reflecting project orientation and Camera View Cone in the 3D model.
Collaborate
Archicad 26 brings improved structural analytical model workflows and usability enhancements for faster, smoother interoperability between architects and structural engineers.
Automatic live Load generation
Faster, automated interoperability between architects and structural engineers in Archicad 26 saves time and increases access to detailed information in the model.
Faster Export to FRILO
Save time when working with the new Archicad – FRILO one-click direct export feature.
SAF Translator Enhancements
Smoother, faster information exchange between Archicad and Structural Analysis applications with the touch of a button keeps architects and structural engineers in sync and on track.
Support for Multi-segmented columns and beams
Get more accurate Structural Analysis calculations with multi-profiled analytical elements that better describe complex segments.
BIMcloud enhancements
No project is too big for BIMcloud, now with an increased file capacity of up to 100K + files. Improvements to security and control over file version history make BIMcloud your best project team collaboration tool.
Accurate building energy evaluations
New in Archicad 26 — Get reliable, out-of-the-box energy and CO2 building material data for accurate building lifecycle analysis and sustainability reports.
Currently available for selected localized versions of Archicad 26.
Document
Archicad 26 introduces faster, more accurate documentation with fewer manual workarounds thanks to powerful enhancements to the documentation workflow.
New Autotext for Master Layout
Save time and reduce errors with faster, more accurate documentation thanks to new autotexts in automated layouts.
Graphic Override enhancements
Quickly create Graphic Override combinations — Archicad 26 makes it easy to find and add multiple rules to combinations at once without unnecessary scrolling.
Level Dimensions updates
Another time saver — Documentation is fast and easy when you use the information already available in the model in different ways.
PDF import enhancements
Save time by spending less time on repetitive tasks — Import multiple pages from a PDF with just one click.
