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When you download anything on macOS from the internet, the download mechanism adds extra info to the downloaded file (called the quarantine flag; you can check for it with ls -lA@ [you_add-on].bundle). This informs the operating the system that the downloaded file may contain malicious code, and so the operating system…

September 11, 2019
by Tibor Lorántfy
modified at September 19, 2024

Browser control in ARCHICAD and JavaScript connection

Since ARCHICAD 23 the Dialog Manager modul was extended with a Browser control. The Browser control uses the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). Using this control an embedded browser can be implemented inside ARCHICAD, which can load any site from a given URL. Using JavaScript the loaded site can communicate with…

June 26, 2019
by Tibor Lorántfy
modified at July 19, 2019

New API features in ARCHICAD 23

This outline summarizes the major new features and changes in the API available with ARCHICAD 23. Technical changes [Windows only] ARCHICAD 23 uses the Visual Studio 2017 toolset for building Add-On projects. Do not worry, you can use Visual Studio 2019 also for building! Make sure to set “Visual Studio…

March 29, 2019
by Gyuri Nyitrai
modified at July 19, 2019

API for BIMx mobile apps

I’m happy to announce that from now not only ARCHICAD offers API but certain functions of BIMx on mobile also accessible for development partners. BIMx API provides a bi-directional live connection between any web-enabled data management system and BIMx mobile apps both on iOS and Android platforms. We developed the…