CAD Design and 3d Virtual Modelling

Computer Aided Design (or CAD) is that three-dimensional magic we have all seen on TV on programmes such as Grand Designs. This 3D mock up of a proposed (or existing) building or development is extremely useful in giving an end-user an insight into what the future building will look like.

This can be an invaluable tool in helping architects show they're new designs and creations and property developers sell 'off-plan' (i.e. before the building is even complete). The possibilities, however, are tantamount to being endless. Existing buildings like museums, restaurants, hotels garden centres, cinemas, shopping centres or even leisure parks can all take advantage of this intriguingly impressive virtual walkthrough in order to show off facilities with creative contours and crevices and get that end user (or browser) interested in what you have to offer. As they say: “If you've got it, painstakingly & virtually recreate it, upload it and eventually consider actually flaunting it”!

Someone clever once claimed that a description of a window was best put as: “An orifice in any edifice, for the penetration of luminous particles” and with CAD you could quite easily fly through that orifice in the edifice (a 'building' incase you were unsure) and zoom around inside for a bit, show off the upstairs en-suite and eventually take the entire roof of the building off to reveal an attractive loft converted into a gymnasium for people with too much money!