Previously, you had to re-enter criteria every time. Now, create a palette called "All external doors over 2100mm" or "Walls with wrong composite." One click, and they are highlighted across 50 floors. This turns a tedious audit process into a two-second task. 2. Slanted Column & Beam Offsets (The Structural Sanity Saver) While the press releases focused on "curtain walls," the goodie for architects dealing with complex roofs or angled facades is the new slanted column offset logic.
But let’s be honest: the flashy features are great for marketing, but the real magic lies in the —the small, tucked-away tools and quality-of-life updates that save you hours of clicking. Here is your guide to the best hidden gems (Goodies) in ArchiCAD 27 that you probably missed during the launch hype. 1. The "Find & Select" Overhaul (The Time Thief Catcher) This isn't your father’s Find & Select anymore. The goodie hidden inside ArchiCAD 27’s selection engine is the ability to save complex selection Queries as permanent palettes. goodies archicad 27
No more guessing if your column goes through the roof or stops at the ceiling. The visual feedback is instantaneous, reducing errors in section/elevation generation by about 90%. 6. The "Revit" Import Filter (Direct Geometry) Yes, we are an ArchiCAD firm, but clients send us Revit files. The goodie in v27 isn't just that you can import RVT files (you could before), but that the geometry translation is now native. Previously, you had to re-enter criteria every time