This year marked what we believe is the second year in which the entire Nemetschek Group’s daughter companies were together in a single super-sized booth. This is how the Group is handling AEC industry conference expositions now, choosing to consolidate daughter brands under the Nemetschek Group umbrella brand. The benefits are several.
The first benefit is that the Group has a large visual presence on the show floor. The second benefit is that booth visitors get a better understanding of sister brands they may not be aware of. Take, for instance, an architect who is an Autodesk Revit user and also a Bluebeam user. If this architect visited the Bluebeam stations inside the large Nemetschek booth, they could discover that Maxon this year introduced its real-time Redshift rendering solution for Autodesk Revit. (see, Architosh, “AIA26: Maxon’s new Redshift for Revit and More,” 17 June 2026 )
The only real downside we see from having a good half dozen AEC brands inside one super-sized booth is that individual BIM authoring companies Archicad and Vectorworks have less space and less of a visual impact on the show floor. Typically, at AIA National, these two companies had their own full-sized booths with perhaps a dozen staff members and that many computer demo stations, plus a tiny booth theater. The Nemetschek booth gives out free drinks, which is a clever idea to bring showgoers into their orbit.
Nemetschek’s Group Strategies
This year, the Nemetschek Group and its subsidiary, Graphisoft, put considerable effort into communicating what they call the Graphisoft Design Intelligence strategy. We covered this in a separate report (see, Architosh: “Graphisoft Advances Design Intelligence Strategy,” 15 June 2026.)
Graphisoft was sharing their Design Intelligence Strategy at AIA26 inside of a session as well as in their booth to the press and other parties.
As we noted in the above report, the Group’s strategy is to link together Graphisoft and other Nemetschek Group tools within an open BIM model framework supporting wide data exchange via both APIs, MCPs, and native BIM connectors. This last part pertains to the Group’s BIM authoring environments, geometry engines, and file formats.
Native BIM Connectors
Theoretically, today it means an Archicad user could utilize Vectorworks Landmark’s excellent terrain modeling capabilities and bring that site into an Archicad project. This would mean Archicad could read (natively) a Vectorworks file format. Likewise, a theater project done in Archicad could be pushed to Vectorworks Spotlight, a dedicated CAD/BIM platform focused on performance space design. With native BIM connectors, Allplan users in Germany could read in both Archicad and Vectorworks BIM models natively. All these programs have proprietary file formats, but it likely doesn’t make sense to keep them proprietary within the Group. On the contrary, native BIM connectors should work better than IFC at moving BIM models around between programs.
Native AEC Platform Connections is a focus area for better industry coordination. That’s in the yellow box above. This will start with Nemetschek’s tools first, but through strategic partnerships like the existing one Nemetschek has with Autodesk, it could extend to other platforms.
Over a year ago, Architosh had a discussion with Sunil Pandita, Chief Division Officer, Planning & Design and Digital Twin Business Unit, Nemetschek Group, who told Architosh that the Group was investigating whether each of the BIM authoring environments could share a common geometry modeling foundation. Building native BIM connectors, while complex, is tremendously easier.
Geometry Engines
Trying to get all three BIM tools on the same geometry foundation would require massive rework and recoding for either Archicad, Allplan, or Vectorworks, depending on which direction they tried to unify around. Both Vectorworks and Allplan use Parasolids, while Allplan still has some geometry creation done via its own geometry engine, so it’s a hybrid. Meanwhile, Archicad doesn’t use any third-party geometry engine, instead relying on a Graphisoft-coded, architecture-focused GDL-based geometry environment. Among the three, Vectorworks and Allplan are closest, while Archicad’s geometry engine is honed for the specifics of architecture.
With this degree of variability in all three tools, only native BIM connectors make sense to pursue, and the sooner they achieve this capability, the stronger the Nemetschek Group can function and compete in the open market.
The Open Approach
A hallmark of Open Intelligence Strategy is the open approach to the industry. Notice in the middle of the diagram below that Native BIM Data Connectors allow data to pass between not just Nemetschek tools but also include SketchUp.
The Open Approach to the industry’s collaboration challenges begins with open APIs and no lock-in technologies. Nemetschek and Graphisoft are aiming to develop a cloud-based, AI-centric open collaboration platform to rival the more closed-oriented Autodesk Forma ecosystem.
MCP and AI agents will form a backbone of an open collaboration platform along with existing pre-AI-era collaboration connectivity technologies like IFC, BCF, and more. This will enable the synchronization of data between 2nd and 3rd party clouds, such as between Bluebeam Cloud and Autodesk Forma or between Solibri and Autodesk Forma.
As part of the announcements, open industry collaboration between Autodesk and Nemetschek Group now includes an Archicad—Autodesk Forma Connection, built on the backbone of a previous agreement. Users can upload an Archicad 3D view or full model directly as an Autodesk Forma Data Exchange, and the geometry becomes immediately accessible as reference data inside programs like Revit. And there is Publisher Set syncing between Archicad and the cloud-hosted Autodesk Forma Data Management (previously ACC).
While Archicad now has compatibility with Autodesk Forma Data Management to meet Forma-based project requirements, the Nemetschek Group is also endeavoring to develop and release in 2027 its own cloud-based early design stage ecosystem similar to Forma Site Design, Forma Building Design, and Forma Carbon Insights. This was previously known as Project Aurora, but the cloud platform and solution has a much more exciting new name, Graphisoft tells us.
Other Nemetschek Brands
Maxon
Also on display inside the giant Nemetschek Group booth were market leaders like Bluebeam, Vectorworks, Solibri, and Maxon. Maxon was showcasing its new Redshift for Revit rendering solution as well as a version for Archicad and its previously released version for Vectorworks.
As noted in our previous report, Redshift’s raytracing technology is distinguished for its rendering quality and speed, and the ability to have another high-quality real-time design visualization technology for your design environment beyond the existing options is a big win for the industry. Especially because users can push these finished render scenes with one click to Maxon’s acclaimed Cinema 4D animation environment for advanced studio work.
Maxon’s new AEC industry push continues with Redshift for Autodesk Revit and more.
And given the animation capabilities of AI tools like Chaos Veras, professional Archviz pros will need to develop more advanced, sophisticated offerings that a tool like Cinema 4D can deliver.
Vectorworks and Morpholio
Vectorworks is one of the Nemetschek Group’s star products, from both its market fit and positioning, its underlying technology stack, and its popularity and fame in architectural markets. From a fit-for-market angle, the Vectorworks product line addresses more than architecture with its Landmark product, without peer in the professional landscape architecture market. Meanwhile, it has a whole series of industry-leading products in the entertainment design space, which includes television and film production, which are increasingly becoming more digitized.
But for many architects, Vectorworks Architect is the go-to and must-have design platform. This year, the daughter company acquired Morpholio with its namesake iPad application. Architosh awarded this tool an AIA26 Architosh BEST of SHOW honor, where we said this about it:
In addition to bringing the sketching-thinking process closer to an advanced BIM tool—where there are so many layers of interaction opportunities—Morpholio can serve as the ultimate first step to sketch-to-AI rendering and animation.
Vectorworks with Morpholio rounds out the “sketch to BIM” product philosophy the United States-based CAD/BIM maker has been telling for years. And Vectorworks 2026 today stands as an exemplar of a codebase that has kept up with changing times, being the first in the Group to become Apple Silicon-native and offering its users incredible interface customization features.
Bluebeam
Bluebeam Max was prominently on display at AIA26 inside the Nemetschek booth. This product was also an AIA26 Architosh BEST of SHOW honoree product for its utilization of agentic AI and MCP connecting Anthropic’s Claude AI to Bluebeam Revu.
The latest Bluebeam Max technologies supercharge this mainstay in the building industry with multiple levels of AI power, including in-house-developed AI capabilities paired with its Firmus-AI-acquired AI capabilities. The latter technologies are on point this year, as several other AI-first companies have introduced the ability for AI to scan or ingest PDF-based drawings and review them for QA/QC purposes.
MORE: AIA26: Architosh 12th ‘BEST of SHOW’ honors for digital technologies at AIA San Diego
When it comes to the Nemetschek Group, Bluebeam is leading the Group with its shipment of agentic AI solutions powered by onboard MCP servers in Revu and connection with an AI orchestrator like Anthropic’s Claude. We are now wondering how other Nemetschek brands will move forward with AI technologies given the popularity of Anthropic’s Claude.
Solibri
During our time in the Nemetschek Group joint pavilion, Solibri presented on Accessibility Assurance: Automate ADA Compliance & Reduce Professional Liability. This presentation showcased how a rule-based checking engine in Solibri can flag ADA violations.
Regarding what is new with Solibri in 2026, the company has restructured its software delivery model and retired its standalone legacy products. Solibri Office, Solibri Site, and Solibri Anywhere have been phased out as standalone tools. In their place is a new tiered platform and single, scalable ecosystem grouped into five tier offerings: Solibri Starter, Essential, Advanced, Premium, and Security+.
Solibri in 2026 has an entirely restructured software delivery model that is a better fit for purpose in the current industry. Solutions address Building Lifecycle, BIM QA, IDS Workflows, and BIM validation for hyperscale and data center construction.
Solibri has also updated its solution to include IFC data support improvements, transparent 3D rendering for IFC spatial zones, a dark mode option, and automated sustainability compliance via a new carbon checker extension.
Solibri’s new product restructuring has kept its hybrid (desktop + cloud) model, resisting the all-cloud mandate that some in the industry believe is the future of AEC compute. Solibri CheckPoint (its all-cloud solution that was acquired) is actually phased out as a product, and some of its technology came into the Solibri cloud layer. Solibri Starter is just USD 99/year/user and is for individuals and small teams needing reliable model review before coordination begins. This is what Solibri calls “professional IFC model visual inspection.” From here, product capabilities and pricing scale up dramatically. Solibri Essential is for structured BIM coordination control and includes both IFC and Revit model federation. Solibri Advanced enables custom rule creation versus Essential’s predefined rule-based model checking. It also delivers quantity take-off and ecosystem integrations with other CDEs. Solibri Premium and Solibri Security+ scale further for asset portfolio-level governance and compliance and for totally secure offline operation for government and high-security structures. The US government is a major Solibri customer, for example.
