salu Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I am a student writing an essay on autocad. I would appreciate any information or links that would give me info on how autocad change the field of architecture and how it will change it in the future. The essay is due in a week! Please help. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onslaught Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Read this link. I think you might get something out of it. http://cadence.advanstar.com/1996/0496/architecture.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Well, personally I dont think AutoCad changed things for the better. If you have a choice in the subject matter, I think you should investigate "smart" tool apps like archicad, MicroStation, vector works, and now revit. These are the tools that AutoCAD is trying to catch up to. AutoCad merely digitized the drafting board, and not all that well. The previously mentioned tools altered Architectural design and practice. To take this even further, you should investigate the impact of cutting edge design tools such as FormZ (designed for Peter Eisenman) Rhino and Catia (both used by Gehry), particle simulations (Greg Lynn) and dynamics engines (Toyo Ito with the Sendai). I see you're either at UofT or Ryerson so feel free to email me for further discussions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Zurita Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Well, personally I dont think AutoCad changed things for the better. Thats probably because you don't know AutoCad's history, the way the architects had to work before AutoCad came up, and what kind of machines you had to have to use something similar. I would recommend that both, you and salu read the Autodesk history a bit http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/autoframe.html. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I fully understand AutoCad's history and I was trained to draft by hand. I also understand earlier CAD machines prior to the mainstream. My point was that all of these systems were very similar in cioncept and execution. It hasnt been until quite recently that the paradigm of CAD software has shifted to parametric objects - that is a radical change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Zurita Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I fully understand AutoCad's history and I was trained to draft by hand. I also understand earlier CAD machines prior to the mainstream. My point was that all of these systems were very similar in cioncept and execution. It hasnt been until quite recently that the paradigm of CAD software has shifted to parametric objects - that is a radical change. Well, I guess salu asked two questions, for the first one AutoCad was extremely important. To me the exponential jump in productivity caused by AutoCad (or CAD itself with the difference that AutoCad made CAD available for the masses) was very important. I fact, if you think about it, AutoCad did much more for architects so far than any of the tools you mentioned put together. But, for the second question, I believe that those tools you mentioned are part of the changes in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 To me the exponential jump in productivity caused by AutoCad was very important. I fact, if you think about it, AutoCad did much more for architects so far than any of the tools you mentioned put together. But, for the second question I would disagree with that strongly. In fact you look back to the "architecture" common to the early to late '80s (the birthing of CAD in general) you will see a general sameness of straight lines and rounded corners. Just because AutoCAD became the tool most synonamous with Architecture, doesnt mean it was the right choice. Beta was better than VHS - look what happened. The tools available in any era always impact the architecture of the time. The introduction of CAD packages, introduced the ability rapidly offset, duplicate, trim and fillet. Thats what many buildings ended up being. Unfortunate. You could historically compare this to the architecture of the cold war soviet union. Look through a few buildings of this period and note the 17 degree angles. I believe that those tools you mentioned are part of the changes in the future. I think these are more tools of the present - maybe near future. I think the future holds more dynamic simulation, rapid prototyping, robotic construction...maybe nanotech. OK, I'm defintiely a futurist Anyway, if this were my paper to write, I would not be praising the legacy AutoCAD. I would question it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_stafford Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 ...you should investigate "smart" tool apps like...MicroStation...Unless you are referring to Triforma flavors of Microstation it is little different from AutoCAD and doesn't belong in the same group you list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salu Posted October 23, 2004 Author Share Posted October 23, 2004 Hi everyone! The link was very useful and I appreciate you taking time to give me some answers. I am actually not a university student, rather am in high school but i intent to go on to university for architecture. Please feel free to continue with the info if you have any. thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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