ARCHICAD vs SketchUp: Which is best for you?

Also, the annual updates and features are great, but they need to focus on how to clean up, consolidate, and streamline a lot of these features which are often redundant.

The problem with the program is that instead of cleaning up the extreme amount of mess they simply add useless new features constantly... which piles ontop of a thousand other useless things, making it less and less intuitive with every release.

The plugin compatibility with rendering softwares like Vray and Enscape makes it very easy to do live updates and see the test render before producing final.

Although it has is tools for layer management, they are not as easy to use as in AutoCAD, Photoshop or almost any other graphic software.