The Ever Changing Face Of Architectural Software and Computer Workstations

For some architects even today there is no getting away from the drawing board and the art of this ancient profession.

Much of the general public still have the image of the architect on his drawing board, working on a blueprint. Otherwise, the intern crouched in a corner working on a scale model of the proposed architectural building.

But the reality of life is very different as Computer Hardware struggles to keep pace with the needs of the designers. And the software houses develop the software to suck every available ounce of power from a CAD workstation.

Only a few years ago a modern PC was capable of running a basic Cad program with little problem, but with the ever increasing drive towards visualisation, that is seeing the design and the buildings before they are even off the drawing board figuratively speaking.

The trend has shot towards systems with massive amounts of memory and multiple quad core processors that can process multiple threads of information in a building simulation program or a complex visualisation or animation - Yes architects are making movies now.

Computer Aided Design has come a long way and for all those IT technicians out there you really need to bring yourselves up to speed with the real needs of your corporate Cad design customers.