• Archicad 10
• Feature Comparison
• First Sight

Feature Comparison between ArchiCAD 9 to ArchiCAD 10

Interactions

First Sight – Primary User Interface

1. Menu structure

The menu structure was rearranged in ArchiCAD 10. This was needed as ArchiCAD now incorporates an integrated workflow. You do everything in ArchiCAD, including Design, Modeling, PhotoRendering, Layouting and Documentation. The following table shows the menu changes.
At the top area you can see ArchiCAD 9 menus and at the bottom area ArchiCAD 10 menus. Menus in ArchiCAD 10 have color codes. If you see a menu item in the ArchiCAD 9 menu with a certain color, you can see by its color to which menu it was moved in ArchiCAD 10. E.g. the Grouping, Display Order and Locking commands at the top of the Tools menu of ArchiCAD 9 have orange color, meaning that they were moved to the Edit menu in ArchiCAD 10.
Menu items of ArchiCAD 9 colored with grey mean that they do not appear on the ArchiCAD 10 menu structure while using the Standard Profile 10 Work Environment Profile. Menu items not colored in the ArchiCAD 9 menu structure stay in the same menu (although they may have been moved to another location within that main menu).

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2. Hidden commands of ArchiCAD

In ArchiCAD 9, there are dozens of commands and interface elements of the program that can be accessed using shortcut keys (or accessed only by mouse), but most of them are not customizable.
In ArchiCAD 10, all such commands are brought to the interface, so they can be made part of Toolbars, Menus and shortcut keys can be defined for them.
In the Work Environment Dialog, go to Command Layout Schemes\Toolbar. Here you can select in the List field All new commands in alphabetical order. This will list all these dozens of commands that are now available for Toolbars, Menus and Keyboard shortcuts.

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