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Advantages of Designing with 3D
AutoCAD
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Why do we want to design with a precision 3 Dimension Design tool like AutoCAD, Inventor, Architectural Desktop?
Besides the fact that it is fun and motivating for the designer and client, there are some very substantial business reasons why it has become a necessity for most designers today to work with and supply 3D models.
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Quality control tool. It is much cheaper to design, simulate and correct an exact model in the computer than to build the real thing with mistakes that cost major time and money to correct later!
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Visualization Tool - much easier for customers and designers to understand, critique and revise a photographic-like rendering than a technical drawing. Rendering tools in AutoCAD are great and photographically real now in 3D Studio VIZ!
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Productivity tool that will save design time on complex products.
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Motivational tool for good designers who like to work out problems before they cost money and feel gratified by the images.
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Stimulates better design ideas due to the detailed visualization capabilities.
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Design/Drawing Tool - we still need technical drawing information at the job site, in the shop and for manufacturing!
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Provides all traditional views (Plan, Elevations, Isometric, True Perspectives) automatically and accurately from one model. Traditionally, multiple views of a design are created, often erroneously, from a designer's head based on experience.
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The real world is ALL done in 3D!
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Provides very positive customer feedback and interaction to work out problems early in the design cycle, NOT when the job is finished.
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The hardware and software are more than ready and waiting for us over the past several years, we just need more designers with the skills!
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Animations for walk-throughs and machinery simulation via Autodesk's highly compatible Autodesk Viz for high quality renderings. Viz allows both linking or importing of drawings.
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Compatible with all other Autodesk products. (Architectural Desktop, Autodesk Inventor, Land Development Desktop, Map)
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World's number one CAD package by a wide margin ... most support, most users, most training schools,
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Highly suitable for Mechanical Engineering, Architectural, Interior Design, Facilities Management, Civil Engineering, Industrial Design, etc.
| Before and After images, comparing a 3D AutoCAD model by EKH to the real thing below. |
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They were supposed to be exactly the same except the contractor could not read drawings very well in this case!! |
See the following pages for testimonials and samples of other students work:
