[Forum Moderator]

Hello dear users,

We have received a communication from Graphisoft regarding this Archicad 25 Update 2 version. It seems that, in the process of integrating Redshift natively, they accidentally blocked any other render engines from working.

They are working to provide a new API for us to build a working version but, in the meantime, we suggest not using that update and using the previous one instead until a fixed Maxwell plugin version comes out or an eventual Archicad 25 Update 3 is released by them.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Kind regards,
Fernando

[Forum Moderator]

Hello,

We have just uploaded an update of the plugin for Archicad (version 5.2.2) using the new API sent by Graphisoft that should work fine with Archicad 25 Update 2 (build 4013).
Please, notice this version won't work with Archicad 25 Update 1 (build 3011).
So, you can either update Archicad 25 to the latest version along with the latest version of our plugin (5.2.2) or keep working with Archicad 25 Update 1 and use the previous version of the plugin (5.2.1).

Kind regards,
Fernando

[Steve Jepson]

I think a lot of Maxwell using who model with ArchiCAD don't bother to use the add-on. I don't know. I just save the model as .3ds and open it with Studio.
The reason I do that is because I like to apply all of the textures using Maxwell Studio ( at least for a single image rendering ). Most of what I render is still images of buildings.

For the quick and easy images , Lumion is hands down the way to go. However, when I need a High Quality Rendering - I much prefer Maxwell Render.