ĭuring the 1990s, Graphisoft continued to expanded internationally and was eventually acquired by the sectors leading German company Nemetschek AG, in 2007. Bojár had to smuggle four Macintosh's into Hungary and was supported with cash by Steve Jobs, whom Bojár had first met in 1984. Subsequently, the company re-wrote their software for Apple Lisa, which didn't succeed economically, but kept the company alive throughout the 1980s. They used the geophysics institute's computers at night, solved the problem and were awarded $30,000 for their software's 300 engineering maps and drawings. The company was launched in 1982, when Bojár and Zimmer developed software, assisting the Hungarian ministry of power in solving a major problem with the installation of a soviet nuclear power plant. Graphisoft īetween 19, Bojár served as founder and president-CEO of Graphisoft.

In 1980, when the institute stopped funding his modelling software, he left and began to work as a programmer abroad, together with his student colleague Ulrich Zimmer. Bojár started his professional career at the state geophysics institute in the late 1970s. In 1973 he received a degree in physics from Eötvös Loránd University.

Graphisoft was acquired by German Nemetschek AG in 2007. Gábor Bojár (born 27 March 1949) is a Hungarian entrepreneur and founder of Graphisoft, an AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) CAD company.

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