Advanced CAD provides design options unlike any other platform. It offers historically unparalleled capabilities for precision design, combined with modeling and extremely cost effective planning methodologies. Most importantly, it also works well with design and construction market technology. Top level 3D like Tekla, for example, includes a full range of the latest up to the minute design, drafting and planning capabilities.
Advanced 3D CAD principles
3D CAD is the most accurate, versatile design methodology in history. The basic box of a simple CAD design frame is also irrefutably the most accurate and most efficient planning tool ever created. The most complex designs are now comparatively easy, simply because of better software capabilities.
To give some idea of the computing power of this software: If the CAD-designed Dubai Tower was designed on the other design software of its time, it could still have been in the planning stages, years after it was actually built. The generation of CAD that designed that building is now obsolete, which explains what's meant by "advanced" 3D software. Advanced CAD takes these principles much further.
Expanding your range of design options
Advanced CAD is a great tool for the all-important "sketching and brainstorming" process, where designs are conceived and put through their paces as active working concepts. At this critical stage of design, designers must be able to work with their concepts in detail, and get a complete picture of all design issues.
For designers, this stage can be very difficult, and they need the tools to work with their designs effectively and efficiently. This is where Advanced 3D CAD outclasses all other types of software. Only Advanced 3D covers all aspects of the design stage comprehensively.
Precision work- How advanced CAD handles the tough jobs
It's not commonly known by laypeople what "precision" engineering really means. This can be the toughest, most demanding, and ferociously number crunching of all types of design and planning. It involves meticulous work, often related as much to scientific, engineering and architectural principles as much as any design or other considerations. Before CAD, this work could take months. Whole drafting teams could be involved in single design elements.
Advanced 3D modelling has made it a lot easier. The murderous number crunching is done automatically, and most importantly, flexibly. The software can generate a very detailed, comprehensive model of any precision job, literally to any degree of accuracy.
Advanced 3D CAD and specification requirements
The use of three dimensional space is a huge advantage for drafters in all aspects of specifications. The specification figures in 3D design software and 3D modeling software literally have to add up, to create a design.
The very high levels of accuracy naturally created by 3D designs ensure reliable specifications. Every specification is correlated, meaning many basic specification errors can't even be made. It's an invaluable asset to planners, ensuring quality control from the first two lines of a design.