For people doing fairly mainstream residential, as most here are, Chief is the clear winner, and I wouldn't even waste time looking elsewhere. I have been using both Chief and ArchiCAD since the 90's, and have and use the current versions of both. I honestly feel Chief is nearly a no-brainier if you focus is residential.ĭoes anyone have any thoughts about Archicad compared to Chief? However, at this present moment I think the positives still out-weight the negative and there are just a whole lot of things 10x harder in other apps that Chief makes easy. The downsides to Chief are lack of "tactile" precision (drives me crazy), lack of 3D instancing/grouping, not great 2D, and a very strict set of modeling "rules". I own a copy of Archicad, and I pretty much never use it (its like 3 versions old) - and I keep track of whats available in the newer versions.Īrchicad is owned by the same company that owns Vectorworks, and id actually place Vectorworks ahead of Archicad unless you are doing massive commercial projects (although Vectorworks works well for that too).Īs i've told other designers/architects - Chief has some amazing ease of use tools for residential that make it unmatched. If your focus is on residential, Archicad isn't "superior in every way" - and id say Chief beats it out in key areas.
It seemed that to really make this program complete you were required to purchase or rather subscribe to plug-ins. Kitchen cabinets out of the box also were quite limited. nice systemīasic rendering out of he box was not impressive though. I loved the professional looking desktop interface.Īlso the simultaneous construction document creation as you draw.
I do reconsider on a monthly basis though, but nah. Sure it gave me much more precise control over every object I drew, the speed at which I could go from floor plan to 3D rendering to construction documents in Chief was way more productive and efficient.
Chief is quite streamlined and tailored for residential construction, so I felt like I was swatting a fly with a baseball bat in Archicad. I was thoroughly impressed, but way too much money. He kept unlocking the trial download for several months. I took a 3 day crash course held by a sales rep in my area.
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