Posted by  Iain Stewart on March 13, 2004 at 01:01:51:

In Reply to:  Re: PowerCADD and SketchUp posted by Robert Sandkam on March 11, 2004 at 17:26:55:

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I agree that there is a major distinction between "design" and "production" information, and that 3D work is of limited practical use in the latter category, where old fashioned plans, sections and details dominate. For this reason I think PowerCADD is greatly superior to ArchiCADD as a drawing tool, which gives comparatively poor 2D graphic output. (For example, try to flood floor plans in ArchiCADD with different colours: you can't.)

Personally I dislike "photorealistic" drawings intensely. So the remarkable watercolour effects possible by rendering SketchUp in Piranesi are very seductive.

Iain

PS Now I know what a NURB is. Thanks!

• http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_25/schneider.html

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