CAD products have come and gone, especially low cost ones, but TurboCAD has proved a durable and popular one, providing an exceptional combination of value, capability and compatibility. Geoff Harrod reviews TurboCAD v7 Professional.
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Revit is a new and rather different CAD program for architectural work. It operates like one a 3D solid modeling manufacturing design CAD system, rather than like a traditional architectural progam. In fact, it is a 3D object-based solids modeler. But its manner of user interaction and display is more like the mechanical 3D modelers than other architectural 3D object-based systems such as ArchiCAD.
Read MoreIt came as little surprise to hear that Autodesk were buying up Revit. At least, I had expected that they might like to do so, but I thought it unlikely such an offer would receive a warm response due to Revit being partly owned by Autodesk’s arch-rival, Dassault Systèmes of France, producers of the mighty CATIA and owners of SolidWorks and now also of the ACIS solid modelling kernel.
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From the years of experience using CAD and all of the talk of late in trade media, the importance of standards is becoming ever more apparent to managers and business owners. The development of consistent standards and practices enables power and spawns exponential growth in production and capability.
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Recently unearthed evidence, aided by computer technology, points to a town in Galilee as the possible Cana of miracles.
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