Ignacio, I agree with you whole-heartedly and in principle, and one of the reasons why I and others might seem to be complaining quite a bit, has a lot to do with the fact that we have come to greatly appreciate and heavily rely on ArchiCAD for a lot of our daily work thanks to its amazing abilities, so much so, that it becomes disappointing to have to seek solutions elsewhere for what logically should be possible to do from within the program itself.Īgain, I think the whole Frank Gehry angle is just clouding matters despite the fact that there is a small overlap between what we were discussing ( the shortcomings of the Profiler add-on and the new Profile Manager and Gehry's CATIA/NURBS methodology). But that is a different program category. 005% then you will also profit from Rhino and CATIA. Now, no one's asking ArchiCAD to do this kind of design, but the expectation was always that it would be able to mature in tandem with modern technology - construction technology - to reduce the ineffeciency of having to resort to multiple redundant work-arounds and methods to achieve what ought to be automatic processes at this point (creating complex geometry and automatically generating the required sections, details and documentation for the said geometry, which would otherwise be rather difficult to do with flatland CAD) in the program.īut as we can see, GS doesn't seem to believe that we are capable of harnessing such technology and methodologies if they were to be available and particularly considering the fact that the contruction industry has a lot of the necessary technology in place, if need be, for architects and designers to exploit.ĪrchiCAD 10 is an amazing upgrade, I think closer to the ideal for 99.995% of architectural practice than anything else out there by a long distance. It's also part of the genius of Gehry's designs, in that although his designs, required a large number of sections and details to ensure accuracy and design integrity, his chosen method ( a hybrid NURBS/Parametric methodology combining Rhino, CATIA and AutoCAD) considerably reduced the donkeywork on the documentation end, while not inhibiting the design end and simultaneously ensuring accuracy,keeping costs and the overall project budget down within reason, onthe financial end. Which ironically is supposed to be some of the redundancy that should be eliminated or reduced by the philosophy of Parametric design and BIM which ArchiCAD is SUPPOSED to be an industry leader ( or at the very least, visionary pioneer) in, at least in pure AEC. Lots of wall sections and x,y,z coordinates. Coffeecup form designer beta team free#Some free form designs done long before CAD by some local Architects.
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