The comparison of the architectural design softwares
Smirnov, Andrei (2015)
Smirnov, Andrei
Saimaan ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015091414588
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015091414588
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There are a lot of ways of building project creation and design. A large amount of offered software mislead, especially, students and young architects suffer because of this. There are different requirements of software knowledge in various companies. So, the main aim of this thesis work was the comparison of the best and the most universal software for architects and designers in the early design phase.
The thesis work bases on two ways for the achievement of this task. They were connected to one. The first way was the sociological survey of few architects, engineers, companies, usual users of architectural design software and students. Their ideas, comments, experience and preferences were considered in this thesis work. The second way was the own project via offered software. There were three programs for direct creation and three programs for following rendering and visualization: ArchiCAD, Revit and SketchUp for the first comparison, Artlantis, Lumion and V-Ray for the second one. Each program was considered on several points, such as architect-engineer cooperation, tools equipment, elapsed time for creation of typical model, etc.
The result of the work is a table with points for each index and with overall point for each program, which was calculated via percent importance. The results are close to each other. Thus the user has to select the most comfortable software by himself. Each decision depends on the importance of indexes of the program.
The thesis work bases on two ways for the achievement of this task. They were connected to one. The first way was the sociological survey of few architects, engineers, companies, usual users of architectural design software and students. Their ideas, comments, experience and preferences were considered in this thesis work. The second way was the own project via offered software. There were three programs for direct creation and three programs for following rendering and visualization: ArchiCAD, Revit and SketchUp for the first comparison, Artlantis, Lumion and V-Ray for the second one. Each program was considered on several points, such as architect-engineer cooperation, tools equipment, elapsed time for creation of typical model, etc.
The result of the work is a table with points for each index and with overall point for each program, which was calculated via percent importance. The results are close to each other. Thus the user has to select the most comfortable software by himself. Each decision depends on the importance of indexes of the program.