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NEO
Thu Jun 15 2006, 12:51pm Print
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Unknown
Thu Jun 15 2006, 02:15pm
Hi!
I beleive, it is more about personal preferences.
True, that drafting by hand is a desirable skill. But this doesnot obviate the need to learn CAD... Yes I agree that the 'D' in CAD stands for 'Drafting' and not 'designing'!

In future when Computer technology will progress further, perhaps the aspirations to be good at both hand-drafting and CAD will prove to be more meaningless. I dont find reasons for us to be apprehensive about the might of technology.

so, Neo, it seems My views are more towards 'contrasting' yours!
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mujtaba
Fri Jun 16 2006, 03:15am
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Unless CAD technology and support services become flexible enough, than they are today, especially at our part of the world, we may still have to rely on sketches.

I was quite surprised though, to find that "mechanical drafting" as we learned in school is not a mandatory requirement for architecture students in the US. I was astonished to see that laptops have taken over the mechanical paraliners, the last of which, in fact, were on their way out to the garbage dumps as I walked in. You won't believe if I say that perhaps I am the only student who had a mechanical paraliner mounted on his table. In fact I had to insist, to keep that in place.

If that was not enough, I had to look for paraliners and had quite a hard time locating one in the local architectural supply stores. Just goes to prove how outdated I am. You can wonder how fast things are changing in our field.

However, here printing is absolutely free including those from plotters, lasers and color inkjets and twenty-four hour tech-support is there to help each student schedule their printing, trouble-shoot laptops, provide advisory services and what nots. So, you can rely on computers here. Back home, you are on your own, printing is exorbitantly expensive, plotters are hard to get and software are corrupt.

But students here don't spend as much time doing graphics or rendering and spend a bulk of the time doing design. So, there isn't a great popularity for 3D Studio Max. Form-Z is rather much more popular. Currently Revit is getting a lot of attention. Sketch-up is also a fast growing popular software.

I still like sketching though, like I said, I am an outdated version. However, students here are taught basic free-hand sketching and free-hand perspective drawing (including shadow casting), rather than mechanical drawing.

So, Neo, I think what you are saying is more along the norms for architecture studies here. However, the courses on computer drafting are much more rigorous than back home, but once again, they are optional.
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NEO
Tue Jun 20 2006, 09:41am
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mujtaba
Tue Jun 20 2006, 05:49pm
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I wanted to share with you the story of Mazharul Islam's son, who is also an architect in the US. I was wondering if that can be done here.
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admin
Wed Jun 21 2006, 09:12am
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sure. you just open a 'new thread' in any relevant forum. i think we need not to demonstrate you how to select a relevant forum or how to open a 'new thread'. If your topic doesn't meet any of the forum category, feel free to talk about anything in the 'off topic' forum.
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atul
Wed Jul 12 2006, 11:09am
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i am not concerned abt doing in one thing, and not considering others. im an ultimate fan of any hand drawn thing, but i just want to mention, none should start his design with CAD, but with 'ghosha-maja' with mota pencils!! then every sheet should have some g-o-o-d hand sketches relavant with design, not just for eye-wash. just hand in this contemporary architectural speed rarely can 'tal milano'.

but CAD should not engulf us, but along that i should also say, let not we be overstressed with hand drawings, and a desire to forget cad, that can be turned into 'khamakha aaatlami'


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Yasir
Thu Aug 17 2006, 01:35am
Registered Member #138 Joined: Sun Aug 13 2006, 01:56am
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yeah guys i agree with u all.. manual presentation can't be beaten.... and i love perspective drawing, manual....i've done some views with pen and ink rendering, i'll try to post them.. only now i've started learning max and in love with it. in our col we are trained in cad from the first sem itself, so almost all are familiar with cad, in fact masters they become in the end, though computer presentation is not an option till 4th sem.....
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