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Here's a nice treat to all architects, interior designers, industrial designers, engineers and other professional and technical persons who uses AutoCAD frequently in their line of work.  It's a free AutoCAD application you can use for free!

Yep, you heard it right, it's really free.  Those professionals who have purchased AutoCAD know that the offline product is very expensive and not all people you coordinate your drawings with have access to this costly software.  So Autodesk, the company who is responsible for spreading the use of AutoCAD in the construction world, has made a solution.  They created an online AutoCAD application which anyone can easily access using a computer and an internet connection.

Here's a cool autocad tip that you might find useful.  The command - "time".  I bet most of you don't know this command.  It actually tells you exactly how long in days, minutes, seconds, upto the milliseconds you have been working with a particular autocad file.  This is one of the many Autocad tips you might want to remember as it may come handy someday.

Architectural Visualization 3ds Max Tutorials #25: Making of Uro House

Artist: Kuan Studio

Posted in: Ronen Bekerman



This is a nice short tutorial written by Luis Linares from Kuan Studio for Ronen Bekerman's blog.  It is an architectural visualization of an exterior shot of a residential house.

The modelling of the house was all done using AutoCad except for the grass part, which was done in 3ds max.  All textures used are VRay Materials and rendered using the VRay Physical Camera.

Following up on my last post - online architectural software, here's another architectural software you guys might like.  And just like my first post, this is also free to download and free to use.

Are you a homeowner who is looking for a fast and easy to use architectural software to make a plan for a home renovation?  Or are you a professional in need of a fast architectural software for making plans and 3d presentations? 

Here's a nice site I found that offers just that.

Architectural Visualization 3ds Max Tutorials #19: Homage to Sidonio Porto

Here's a very nice article of a 3d rendering done using Autocad for modeling and 3ds Max and Vray for the rendering part.  Marcelo Eder did a great job.

Artist: Marcelo Eder

Posted in: CGSociety

The idea behind the realization of this image has followed me since my college days, when I saw for the first time the work of the amazing Sidonio Porto, a renowned Brazilian architect. Unfortunately, it remained a mere dream...

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Have you had an experience in using Autocad where in you've already done a lot of labeling and have added a lot of callouts and text tags in your plans and drawings when you realized that some of the repeating callouts and text tags that you have been putting in all over the drawings were all wrong?  And then you go to all the hassle of going back and forth through your drawings to look for all those wrong texts and correcting them one by one?  Well, it happened to me a few years back when I was labeling all the finishes and specifications on the plans and elevations of a house I was working on in Autocad.  I was almost done with the callouts when I realized my mistake, I had placed a wrong specification for a certain finish I  was planning to use on the house.  The worst part about that is that certain word was scattered and was repeated all over the drawings.  It took me a lot of my time just to go through the drawings again to look for the word and to correct them one by one.   After that experience, I knew that I had to find a faster way to do the corrections if it happens to me again.  It did happen to me again but fortunately I found out about the Find and Replace Dialog Box in Autocad.

Our company was trying to cut down on expenses and was looking for alternatives to the very much popular Autodesk Autocad.  The cost of one licensed full Autocad is very expensive that it's hard for our growing company to buy more of this software.  Even if you opt to use its lighter and cheaper version which is Autocad LT, the price is still expensive and you don't get the full set of commands and tools that the full Autocad has.  A friend of one of my officemates suggested a very interesting program as an alternative to Autocad and I want to share it with you.

As an architect, I get to use a lot of Architectural Softwares that help me produce the necessary drawings and outputs needed to coordinate work with other people in a particular construction project.  Below are the list of the architectural softwares that I usually use.