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authors
Szovenyi-Lux, Miklos
year
1997
title
Archicad for Teamwork - A New Concept in CAD Teamworking
source
Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
Architects are often obliged to use CAD and even to show a 3D CAD model of their design (that most CAD programs are capable of
doing now) and most people are mislead by such slogans as the 3D is the most important part of a design although its just like drafting
from other tricky viewpoints. We all know that a building is far more complex than the a bundle of sections, elevations and perspective
views. It's a model of space where all building construction parts and other effects (even time, sunshine), that create and help to
communicate this space have very complex cross references with each other. If we want to describe it with a program we have to
create a digital building, and architects have to communicate this digital building towards each other in the design phase, if more than
one architect or engineer is working on the building simultaneously.