This side business paid for my upgrades over the years as my workforce was primarily proficient in Autocad and I couldn’t reap the benefits of what was then termed the “Virtual Building” concept beyond producing very convincing images of projects. My objects were sold in 24 countries around the world. I delved into GDL as I realized that I could create much more robust geometry using it and several years after that began developing objects and selling them through Objects Online. Very soon afterwards, version 4.0, then 4.1 were released. And so my journey began as I bought my first computer - an Apple Macintosh, along with a license of Archicad 3.82 (I think). In the summer of 1989, I received a call from the local distributor of Archicad offering a substantial discount, which put it in my budget range. The first one was Architrion which was developed in France. The other two programs appeared to be very similar and ran on Apple Macintosh machines. At the time, one station cost a whopping $25,000, so it was out of my reach. If I recall correctly, one program was developed in Chicago and ran on IBM machines. I could only identify three programs at the time that featured a 2D interface, 3D geometry and correlating quantities output. I attended several shows that displayed the latest and greatest that computerization had to offer the architectural design community. My journey with Archicad began in mid 1988 when I started my architectural practice.
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