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Posted by Jacques Pochoy on June 15, 1998 at 16:05:11:
In Reply to: Re: Opinions about integrated 2D/3D software posted by Peter Bacot on June 15, 1998 at 09:23:47:
I'm quite of the same advice than Peter Bacot...
I've worked (and not only tryied) most of the CAD 2D/3D pakages and am still clinking to my PowerCadd... My true wish is to have not an "export" file but more an export "view", a little like the "radiance" export and that, on DW as on PCadd. If you get "very" near to Eng.Soft you'll see it's not just a "virtual" wish...
More basically, through these last years, nobody ever asked the architects what they wanted! I mean, what did they "really" wanted, apart from the usual chat on the client's image and so on. Just what is our job supposed to be, now and in a few years? Cosmetical designers for big contractors? Authors ? Artists in a very precise and costly business?
For myself, I think that we "feel" our way through "space" and "materials". To have our design build, we must go through a process of drawing "blue prints", mostly for the "administrators" of our countries and also for the contractors. So most of the design goes by 2D. Sometimes we have the "hell" of an idea and we need to "conceive"it by 3D, because it's a wee bit complex.
Then also, we need some "communication" data, a plastic or virtual model wich is done when the designing is finished.
In each case we need a "separate" soft. Because of that, I'm not in favor of an "integrated" 2/3D (just look at those screens full of floating windows...)
But....(seems to be always a "but"!) In several years from now, will we still produce our blue-print style designing or will we give (sell!) a file wich would contain ALL the data????