Digicad 3D 24 – What’s new?
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.
Some programs, for example, offer a list of frames automatically linked to door and window openings, but more often than not, the very frame you want is not there and you end up using frames which do not correspond to reality. A little experience of such programs – and you soon come to recognise them by the drawings of the frames used – always the same old ones!
Other programs (but not Domus.Cad) have come up with a totally different programming language to define the new parameters. Domus.Cad could do this too, because it can be programmed in C and C++, but this is a solution developed for programmers – not for architects.
Break out of your parametric limits!
The parametric elements of Domus.Cad Pro and Std are powerful, fast and creative design tools, but we do not believe that simply adding more parameters is the correct solution to architects’ difficulties. We believe that, at any given moment, you should be able to break out of parametric limits, in order to create freely and introduce a variety of elements into any one project.
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