I have some questions would like to seek from you guys around.
1) Is there any other program similar to archicad? Can I know how many types of similar archicad software are there in the market?
2) What is the difference between autocad and archicad?
3) Which are the companies the main industrial players for autocad and archicad?
4) Is there such program that combines the features of autocad and archicad?
Is this like a school project or something? Very clever of you to get me to write your essay. Better check it though, i could be fooling.
1) any other program????
Without speaking a bad, five letter word, there are outrageous cabbage-kicking claims by other, lesser programs with immense develoment money behind them, but Archicad leads right now. But who can say about next month? We live in interesting times as far as architectural software goes.
2) What is the difference between autocad and archicad?
AutoCad is an electronic drafting board adaptable to any drafting situation. Think of it as StupidOldFashionedCAD.
Archicad, on the other hand, has sophisticated tools specific to the design, analysis, illustration and construction documentation of buildings using a virtual building AKA building information model. It produces relationships in three dimensions that have meaning - they inform the designer about spatial qualities and conflicts from the getgo. You don't discover the confllict six months later that the headroom over the cycling path to the underside of the transit guideway is 1.8m like i did in 1983. What trouble that was! The information and productivity gained from modeling is made clear when editing or refining design and in the resulting accuracy of construction documentation. There's no faking it in Archicad. Think of it as SmartModernCAD.
3) Which are the companies the main industrial players for autocad and archicad?
Big architectural firms. Used to be that Archicad was something clever guys in their basements who wanted the productivity of five people all by themselves bought, but it is catching on with real architects, now, and they are forgetting their roots, abandoning essentials like ductwork.
4) Is there such program that combines the features of autocad and archicad?
Probably. If you are going to market to architects, you need buzzwords providing solace to archaic AutoCAD feifdom managers and techologic hope to those needing modern building descriptors. All applications make buildings to one degree or another, even basic CrayononthebackofanenvelopeCAD will do. But why bother to combine features since AutoCAD is not modern? Either you stay in "flatland" with AutoCAD, burdened by limiting concepts of linework and symbols, or you abandon that idiocy and adopt some kind of intelligent system that employs the three dimensional data management aspects a computer can provide. Many Archicad users feel that they produce documents faster, more accurately and more profitably than they ever could in AutoCAD once they stop bitching about the multi-faceted interface and get down to business with it.
1) any other program????
Without speaking a bad, five letter word, there are outrageous cabbage-kicking claims by other, lesser programs with immense develoment money behind them, but Archicad leads right now. But who can say about next month? We live in interesting times as far as architectural software goes.
2) What is the difference between autocad and archicad?
AutoCad is an electronic drafting board adaptable to any drafting situation. Think of it as StupidOldFashionedCAD.
Archicad, on the other hand, has sophisticated tools specific to the design, analysis, illustration and construction documentation of buildings using a virtual building AKA building information model. It produces relationships in three dimensions that have meaning - they inform the designer about spatial qualities and conflicts from the getgo. You don't discover the confllict six months later that the headroom over the cycling path to the underside of the transit guideway is 1.8m like i did in 1983. What trouble that was! The information and productivity gained from modeling is made clear when editing or refining design and in the resulting accuracy of construction documentation. There's no faking it in Archicad. Think of it as SmartModernCAD.
3) Which are the companies the main industrial players for autocad and archicad?
Big architectural firms. Used to be that Archicad was something clever guys in their basements who wanted the productivity of five people all by themselves bought, but it is catching on with real architects, now, and they are forgetting their roots, abandoning essentials like ductwork.
4) Is there such program that combines the features of autocad and archicad?
Probably. If you are going to market to architects, you need buzzwords providing solace to archaic AutoCAD feifdom managers and techologic hope to those needing modern building descriptors. All applications make buildings to one degree or another, even basic CrayononthebackofanenvelopeCAD will do. But why bother to combine features since AutoCAD is not modern? Either you stay in "flatland" with AutoCAD, burdened by limiting concepts of linework and symbols, or you abandon that idiocy and adopt some kind of intelligent system that employs the three dimensional data management aspects a computer can provide. Many Archicad users feel that they produce documents faster, more accurately and more profitably than they ever could in AutoCAD once they stop bitching about the multi-faceted interface and get down to business with it.
ray wrote:Spend a little while browsing/searching this forum.... almost all these answers are here somewhere...
Dear pals,
I have some questions would like to seek from you guys around.
1) Is there any other program similar to archicad? Can I know how many types of similar archicad software are there in the market?
2) What is the difference between autocad and archicad?
3) Which are the companies the main industrial players for autocad and archicad?
4) Is there such program that combines the features of autocad and archicad?
Hi Dwight,
You have helped me in understanding certain issues on archicad and autocad. I was just doing some research understanding on archicad, autocad and any other cad programs where the architechs are using.
So can I say the main common cad programs most architechs used are archicad right at the moment?
As mentioned in a question stated by me the difference between autocad and archicad, so can I say actually autocad is a common tool where the architech used in the past and since archicad is out most of the architech made a switch from autocad to archicad due to its advanced features in archicad?
Can I just ask other than autocad and archicad these two common programs used by the architechs, which 2 or 3 more common programs the architech use as well?
You have helped me in understanding certain issues on archicad and autocad. I was just doing some research understanding on archicad, autocad and any other cad programs where the architechs are using.
So can I say the main common cad programs most architechs used are archicad right at the moment?
As mentioned in a question stated by me the difference between autocad and archicad, so can I say actually autocad is a common tool where the architech used in the past and since archicad is out most of the architech made a switch from autocad to archicad due to its advanced features in archicad?
Can I just ask other than autocad and archicad these two common programs used by the architechs, which 2 or 3 more common programs the architech use as well?
Dwight wrote:
Is this like a school project or something? Very clever of you to get me to write your essay. Better check it though, i could be fooling.
1) any other program????
Without speaking a bad, five letter word, there are outrageous cabbage-kicking claims by other, lesser programs with immense develoment money behind them, but Archicad leads right now. But who can say about next month? We live in interesting times as far as architectural software goes.
2) What is the difference between autocad and archicad?
AutoCad is an electronic drafting board adaptable to any drafting situation. Think of it as StupidOldFashionedCAD.
Archicad, on the other hand, has sophisticated tools specific to the design, analysis, illustration and construction documentation of buildings using a virtual building AKA building information model. It produces relationships in three dimensions that have meaning - they inform the designer about spatial qualities and conflicts from the getgo. You don't discover the confllict six months later that the headroom over the cycling path to the underside of the transit guideway is 1.8m like i did in 1983. What trouble that was! The information and productivity gained from modeling is made clear when editing or refining design and in the resulting accuracy of construction documentation. There's no faking it in Archicad. Think of it as SmartModernCAD.
3) Which are the companies the main industrial players for autocad and archicad?
Big architectural firms. Used to be that Archicad was something clever guys in their basements who wanted the productivity of five people all by themselves bought, but it is catching on with real architects, now, and they are forgetting their roots, abandoning essentials like ductwork.
4) Is there such program that combines the features of autocad and archicad?
Probably. If you are going to market to architects, you need buzzwords providing solace to archaic AutoCAD feifdom managers and techologic hope to those needing modern building descriptors. All applications make buildings to one degree or another, even basic CrayononthebackofanenvelopeCAD will do. But why bother to combine features since AutoCAD is not modern? Either you stay in "flatland" with AutoCAD, burdened by limiting concepts of linework and symbols, or you abandon that idiocy and adopt some kind of intelligent system that employs the three dimensional data management aspects a computer can provide. Many Archicad users feel that they produce documents faster, more accurately and more profitably than they ever could in AutoCAD once they stop bitching about the multi-faceted interface and get down to business with it.
Richard wrote:haha!
And the word "spelt" is spelled "spelled". http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spelt
And the contraction of "you are" is "you're", not "your". If you're going to correct someone's English, it is helpful to know it first.
Don't mention it.
thanks richard! that made my morning. the whole your/you're thing make my skin crawl. (as does your country's butchery of the english language - but that's a discussion for the pub!
)~/ben
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