saying hello

[ChooChoo]

I swear I have posted here before but I keep getting the

 

Hello ChooChoo,

Our records indicate that you have never posted to our site before! Why not make your first post today.

 

Post today and become an active part CGarchitect.com forums now!

so I would like to become an active member by saying Hi!

 

3d visualization interests the hell out of me, but for now I am a residential designer/builder getting really close to being just a designer. I use Revit almost exclusively, but have tried out many programs

 

SoftPlan (gasp!)

ADT (too hard for me)

yes I tried Rhino Antisthenes still quite interesting

AutoCAD of course

Max

 

but I'm getting into Hammer a little because I like the physics engine of HL2 dislplaying what I designed. Purely for fun at the moment.

[Antisthenes]

haha

 

but did you try v4?

 

welcome m8!

 

to make adt less hard just get together a set of doors windows and wall types load object enabler on top of regular acad and just use those pieces/objects.

 

when you say you will become a designer from a res. designer do you mean because the bubble busting on the home market?

 

or are you saying you are not going to build any more?

 

I did similar I went from custom ecological residential design build to doing large facilities now(LEED) stuff.

[Brian Cassil]

Sounds like you are using CG for design/cad mostly. You'll find people here are render gurus for the most part. Don't let that dissuade you from posting though. There probably could (maybe should) be a stronger base for CAD folks on the forums.

[Antisthenes]

CG and design documents Design Review Visualization/VR and Marketing matterials is a big part of what i do so always being abreast of the best render techniques and tools are important.

[ChooChoo]

Ah yes, I use Revit and can import all my materials into Max/Viz. From there I'm a noob. I can get it looking decent, just not professional. Always interested in educating myself.

 

Ant, I tried to get v4, but can't because I never had v3. so 3 is what I can base it on, but like I said, it does look quite interesting.

 

Biggest complaints I have about Revit is the modeling tools and ability of the program to manage the model. It seems very slow for what the model is. But it fits best to what I'm doing.