Winners of BEST of SHOW Awards

Eligible products in the desktop software category must run on both Mac and Windows platforms within the release awarded. Eligible products for the mobile category must run on Apple’s iOS platform and are strongly encouraged to run on at least one other mobile platform. Eligible products for the BIM award must meet either of the two requirements above or run in the cloud and be supported on at least two web browsers on two or more operating systems. [Editor’s note; see this post for further eligibility requirements.]

Without further ado, the honors for BEST of SHOW go to:

Desktop Winner(s)

This year Architosh chose two desktop winners and both of them are modeling tools. The first honor goes to AutoDesSys for its completely rebuilt, modern and powerful 3D modeling software in

Desktop Winner Design Award – formZ v7

(now at version 7.3).

“In both our views this modeling package is without rival in power and ease-of-use,” said Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, LEED AP. “The new bonsai inspired user-interface dramatically simplifies while making the power features more accessible. It is a virtuous and complete overall and one we think architects should strongly consider as a professional, complete modeling solution .”

It beat Sketchup 2013 and ArchiCAD 17