All for one or one for all? What’s better, integrated or monolithic programs?

Any busy design studio nowadays needs many different kinds of software – a plain old design program just isn’t enough anymore!

The solution of many manufacturers has been to keep adding on different functions to the original software – design-through-production-through-application in a single, often unwieldy program. Autocad, Microstation and ArchiCad are examples.

The alternative is to develop state-of-the-art specialist programs, compatible and inter-communicating. This is the road chosen by Interstudio, for the following good reasons:

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Crazy parameters

How to deal with the crazy parameters of the ‘Old World’ buildings

 

80% of architectural work in Europe is done on old buildings. This is undoubtedly also the case in any country with an architectural heritage of buildings made of stone or other durable material, of equal or greater importance than any new construction work .

This means working with an incredible variety of non-standard construction elements. Some architectural CAD programs attempt to solve this by increasing the number of parameters, but it is a hopeless struggle, because the number of construction elements is infinite and it is near impossible to cover all eventualities. So the parameter problem becomes a real obstacle to the architect. 

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Standard and Professional – Domus.Cad now twice as good!

Domus.Cad Pro StdWith the latest version, Domus.Cad becomes twice as good, to better meet the professional requirements, both economic and functional, of designers.

Designers can now choose between Domus.Cad Std and Domus.Cad Pro.

Domus.Cad Pro is a complete BIM program, integrated with other programs to manage an entire project, with specialist functions to optimize and save time and simplify operations. For example, Domus.Cad Pro communicates seamlessly with other programs. It has powerful specialist functions, such as automatic creation of tables of demolished/rebuilt areas, entire wooden structures, complex spiral and helical stairs and much more.

Domus.Cad Std is not the classic ‘Light’ software, only there to boost sales of the more complete version. It is a program with all the functions a designer needs to create complete and complex projects, with total control of 2D and 3D aspects. It does not have some of the automatic functions, so here the designer will have to use the program’s more generic functions, which will take a little more time. This is for you if you don’t need to do internal computations, export to DOCFA for the Italian Land Registry or model terrain. Otherwise, Domus.Cad Std lets you use all the other functions at less than half the price of Domus.Cad Pro.

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Domus.Cad Pro – Design without compromise

Domus.Cad ProThe new version of Domus.Cad is out – and it’s called Domus.Cad Pro.

No more numbers – we had reached version 16 – we’re starting at 1 of Domus.Cad Pro, where Pro stands for Professional, as opposed to the version Std (Standard), also being released.

Lots of new features that make Domus.Cad increasingly the best professional architecture and parametric program for architects worldwide.

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