Several weeks ago, as noted in my Cadalyst article Drinking in All That Nemetschek as to Offer, I visited Munich, Germany, as that company's guest. I also took a quick side trip -- a one-hour flight -- to Budapest, Hungary, headquarters of Graphisoft, makers of ArchiCAD software. ArchiCAD has been around as a design authoring tool as long as AutoCAD -- 25 years. However, ArchiCAD supported the process and methodology we now call building information modeling (BIM) many years before Autodesk acquired Revit or developed Autodesk Architecture (formerly known as Architectural Desktop or ADT) and indeed before most other vendors developed competing tools for BIM automation.