We were still using the commercial version, but we printed our own CDs to clearly brand the product as a Student version. So, after we all agreed, we had to convince GRAPHISOFT – which we did! The first response was not very positive, but the more we threw the idea around the more it seemed to make sense – basically lower the barrier so all NZ Architectural Students could get ArchiCAD for nothing! We all agreed this would be a long-term strategy but as our clients were always demanding more and more ArchiCAD trained staff it made perfect sense (at least it does in hindsight!) Well, it was during a regular ‘dealer meeting’ in 2001 when we were discussing the student version, and someone asked While Cadimage was the distributor for ArchiCAD we only sold to the upper North Island and we had dealers in the lower North and South Islands. We kept this in place for a couple of years and sold a license here and there but no real success. So, we tried again, the details are a bit sketchy, but I think we got the price down to $200 for a 200hr keyplug and students could buy again and again as required.
We dropped the price to $695 the following year and continued with a low uptake. From memory I think this was going to be an annual cost (our very first subscription maybe?) and I think we still supplied a commercial license as there was no education version.Īnyway, this first (of what turned out to be a number of experiments) experiment failed after we sold maybe 1 or 2 licenses that year. Therefore in 1997 shortly after I had joined Cadimage we launched a student version from memory we charged 10% of the standard ArchiCAD Price so around $795.00. As I wrote in an earlier post when I was a student and wanted to buy ArchiCAD I got a bit of a shock when I found out the cost of ArchiCAD.
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